Nominees in Bold are the ones predicted to win by our readers. American Sniper, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything each gathered a handful of votes from The Numbers readers, and Selma and Whiplash are given virtually no chance at all. [6], Principal photography began in September 2013, with filming taking place throughout Los Angeles, including the Hotel Barclay, Palace Theater, and the Orpheum Theatre,[13][14] with a few exterior shots filmed in New York City to create the setting. In 2014, he co-stars in film projects including WHIPLASH opposite Miles Teller; BEHAVING BADLY opposite Selena Gomez; and DOLPHIN TALE 2, the sequel to Warner Bros' 2011 hit film. The $10,000 club was crowded this weekend with six films earning per theater averages of more than $10,000. As noted, though, favorite is strong, given the closeness of this category, with Linklater getting 55% of the votes and Inarritu taking a 46% share. The Screen Actors Guild winners were announced Sunday and there were some surprises, mostly in the negative. More on that later. Figures will therefore fluctuate each week, and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates. At his father's request, Andrew meets a lawyer representing the parents of Sean Casey, a former student of Fletcher's. This site may be governed by it's ownTerms & Conditions and Privacy Policy. Since Tanner cannot play without the sheets, Andrew replaces him for the next set. The predicted Best Picture winner is, in fact, a statistical dead heat. Most recently, JK filmed Jeremy Sisto's feature Breakpoint. The Independent Spirit Awards winners were announced last night and there were few surprises. [5] The film opened in limited release domestically in the United States and Canada on October 10, 2014, gradually expanding to over 500 screens and finally closing on March 26, 2015. Whiplash marks the sixth film Taylor has cast for Blumhouse Films. He most recently finished shooting the independent film WHIPLASH opposite Miles Teller and JK Simmons. Crisp, sharp. The family moved to Citrus County, Florida when Miles was twelve. I want to see a monster, a gargoyle, an animal." Had it opened on Friday instead, it very likely would have reached the $10,000 club. As per usual, here is the list of nominees marked according to predictions / wishes. She most recently produced Reitman's film, LABOR DAY, starring Josh Brolin and Kate Winslet, which will be in theaters January 31st. Andrew crawls from the wreckage and runs to the theater, arriving just as the ensemble enters the stage. In 2013, Blumhouse invited horror fans to experience The Purge: Fear the Night, a live-event inspired by the backstory to the feature film. "[35], The film appeared on many critics end-of-year lists. The Theory of Everything expanded again, but still remained in the $10,000 club with an average of $10,798 in 141 theaters. Justin Hurwitz (music) graduated from Harvard University in 2008, where he studied music. More We have a rather long list of limited releases this week, but sadly only three of them are earning overwhelmingly positive reviews. During his sophomore year he and his best friend auditioned for Footloose because "the Drama Club Counselor was really pretty." Blumhouse's upcoming micro-budget wide releases include Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones for Paramount; Jessabelle for Lionsgate; and Stretch for Universal. Birdman, Boyhood, The Imitation Game, and others continue to get accolades, but there are also some films that are being passed over too often. Jason Reitman (Executive Producer) premiered his first short film, Operation, at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998. Chazelle and Blumhouse first made "Whiplash" as an 18-minute short film and when that earned raves at Sundance . Since graduating from AFI, Sharone has established himself as a distinctly unique cinematographer, shooting a remarkable variety of projects, including the award-winning indie drama MEAN CREEK, the dark and disturbing LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, the sports drama COACH CARTER and the period musical DARK STREETS. While at Bold, he oversaw the Golden Globe Best Picture Nominated RFK drama BOBBY; produced the Joe Dante directed suspense thriller THE HOLE 3D; the Toronto Film Festival Selection MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, starring Susan Sarandon and Anton Yelchin; and the 2010 apocalyptic thriller LEGION, starring Paul Bettany and Dennis Quaid which scored a 40MM domestic cume from Sony's Screen Gems. The Imitation Game led the way on the per theater chart with an incredible average of $119,838 in four theaters. Today we look at the two supporting actor categories, finishing with Best Supporting Actor. Writing and directing a short is a potential passageway to creating a full-length feature film. Though the act further alienates him from his fellow musicians, the band nonetheless wins the competition, and he seems poised to become Fletcher's new "favorite son.". On a serious note, while my job is all about movies and I love watching movies, I love paying attention to box office numbers, I even love Awards Season. Since taking that post, she co-produced Dimension Films' Dark Skies in addition to Film District's upcoming Insidious: Chapter 2, among others. Plus, predictable probably means the Awards Season voters are making the right choices, as surprises usually mean someone made the wrong choice. Metacritic collected lists published by major film critics and publications and in their analysis, recorded that Whiplash appeared on 57 lists and in 1st place on 5 of those lists. Other Executive Producing credits at Bold include the Sony release, LEGION starring Paul Bettany; THE HOLE 3D from visionary director Joe Dante; 2008 Toronto Film Festival Official Selection MIDDLE OF NOWHERE starring Susan Sarandon and Anton Yelchin; MINI'S FIRST TIME starring Nikki Reed, Alec Baldwin, Luke Wilson, Carrie Anne Moss & Jeff Goldblum; 2006 Sundance Dramatic Competition Selection COME EARLY MORNING starring Ashley Judd; director Olatunde Osunsanmi's found footage thriller EVIDENCE starring Stephen Moyer and Radha Mitchell; and Nicolas Winding Refn's ONLY GOD FORGIVES starring Ryan Gosling and Kristin Scott Thomas. The hits growing so fast they start to blur together. [20] The soundtrack consists of 24 tracks divided in three different parts: original jazz pieces written for the film, original underscore parts written for the film, and classic jazz standards written by Stan Getz, Duke Ellington, and other musicians. Andrew subsequently abandons drumming. [2] It expanded to 88 locations, then 419 locations. Sharone Meir (Director of Photography) was born in Israel, and his interest in film began with photography classes in high school. Walters continues his role serves as Executive Producer on all of Bold's pictures, including current feature films WHIPLASH, the Sundance 2014 Audience and Drama Jury Awards winner which will be released on October 10, 2014 by Sony Pictures Classics; NIGHTCRAWLER, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo, which will be released by Open Road Films on October 17; THE COUP, starring Owen Wilson, Pierce Brosnan and Lake Bell which will be released by THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY on March 16, 2015; and LOST RIVER, Bold's third production with Ryan Gosling which marks his debut as writer and director and stars Christina Hendricks, Saoirse Ronan, Ben Mendelsohn and Eva Mendes. Soon after, Right of Way Films and Blumhouse Productions helped Chazelle turn 15 pages of the script into an 18-minute short film, also titled Whiplash. Whiplash was close behind with an average of $22,565 in six theaters. Notable credits include Travis Fine's ANY DAY NOW (Editor), Scott Cooper's CRAZY HEART (Additional Editor), the David Milch HBO series DEADWOOD (Assistant Editor), and Michel Negroponte's science-fiction documentary W.I.S.O.R. Marketing and promotion. Whiplash - Short Film by Damien Chazelle (HD/Blu-Ray) dvdextras 1.09K subscribers Subscribe 8.3K Save 239K views 2 years ago Notice Age-restricted video (based on Community Guidelines) Almost. Reitman made his feature film debut with the 2006 hit Thank You For Smoking. Meanwhile, the nominees I want to win, but don't think will win, are Underlined. Blum began his career as the producing director of the Malaparte theater company, which was founded by Ethan Hawke. A college recruiter in the audience of this performance offered STOWELL a full scholarship the University of Connecticut Department of Dramatic Arts. The film was produced by Bold Films, Blumhouse Productions, and Right of Way Films. See production, box office & company info. on Mar 2, 2015 Damien Chazelle, Short Film, Whiplash Initially unable to raise the $3 million budget for Whiplash, Damien Chazelle made a proof of concept, 18-minute short film that premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. However, Andrew is taken aback when Fletcher abruptly gives the position to Ryan Connolly, a drummer from a lower-level ensemble within Shaffer. His monologue was impressive enough to represent his district at the state event. The short film received acclaim after debuting at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, which attracted investors to produce the complete version of the script. He also co-stars in the upcoming Paramount Insurge feature, DESTINATION WEDDING. Melissa Benoist (Nicole) just wrapped production on the feature Imagine, opposite Al Pacino, Jennifer Garner, Christopher Plummer and Annette Bening for director Dan Fogelman. This brings us back to the last section, you need to decide what . A ferocious, bullying music teacher teaches a dedicated student. I Am Ali is a documentary, so it could do well in art house circuits, but its chances of expanding significantly are very limited. Vana as Metz, a trombonist who gets dismissed by Fletcher mid-rehearsal, Adrian Rashad Driscoll as Reed, a trombonist. I enjoyed the editing too and find it very pleasant to watch. [citation needed]. And. Miles was born in Downingtown, Pennsylvania and during those formative years he developed a love of sports and has remained a die-hard Phillies and Eagles fan. Sharone recently went back to his native Israel to shoot the feature UP THE WRONG TREE and was subsequently nominated for the Israeli equivalent of the Academy Award for his cinematography in that film. In addition to co-creating and starring in the critically acclaimed NBC series, "Mad About You," which garnered him multiple Emmy, Golden Globe, American Comedy Award and Screen Actors Guild nominations for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, Reiser this year starred opposite Matt Damon and Michael Douglas in the Steven Soderbergh-directed HBO movie "Behind The Candelabra", a film that won eleven primetime Emmy's. This film will hit major milestones very soon. Damien Chazelle made his directorial debut with the musical Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009). Whiplash Short Film Damien Chazelle changes course. But Hollywood passed because many producers just had a hard time seeing Chazelle's vision. With a dedication to making commercial films with artistic vision, Litvak has diversified the company's slate by developing films in a wide variety of genres that include dramas, thrillers, sci-fi and independent festival favorites. With a full slate of films and television to be released in the next 9 months, David Lancaster launched RUMBLE FILMS in June of 2014 after serving as co-president of Bold Films from 2006 through March 2014. This isn't at the same level as Frozen opened with, but it is already the second best selling DVD in 2015. Andrew's maniacal effort to achieve perfection is further fueled by Fletcher's psychological brinksmanship. [41], Whiplash was originally planned to compete for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, but on January 6, 2015, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) announced that the film would instead be competing in the Adapted Screenplay category[42] to the surprise of many including Chazelle,[43] due to the short film premiering at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival (one year before the feature film's release), even though the feature film's script was written first and the short was made to attract investors into producing the feature-length film. ". In fact, this week it was the only one in the $10,000 club earning an average of $10,348 in 231 screens. Second place went to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1, with an average of $13,725 during its sophomore stint. As the piece finishes, Andrew continues into an extended, unexpected solo. For March 2015 THE COUP, which stars Owen Wilson, Pierce Brosnan, and Lake Bell will be released by The Weinstein Company. This includes Big Hero 6, which opened in first place with 963,000 units / $14.44. Pre-weekend projections had the film closer to $30 million, and with an $80 million price tag, and Brad Pitt starring, the film is really underperforming at this point. For the third weekend in a row, Birdman led the per theater chart. There were a trio of new limited releases topping the per theater chart, led by St. Vincent with an average of $27,470 in four theaters. Suddenly, financing no longer was an issue for a feature; independent finance company Bold Films (which did Nightcrawler) stepped up with $3.3 million for the full-length film's budget. Cross then collaborated with director Damien Chazelle on the short film, WHIPLASH, which won the Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. "[34] In The New Yorker, Richard Brody said,"Whiplash honors neither jazz nor cinema. He's making the kind of musician that would throw a cymbal at him. The BAFTA nominations were announced yesterday and unlike most other Awards Season voters, the BAFTA voters gave us some real surprises. [16][15] Chazelle was involved in a serious car accident in the third week of shooting and was hospitalized with possible concussion, but he returned to set the next day to finish the film on time. New releases earned the top three spots on the DVD sales chart this week. In December 2015, the score received a Grammy nomination, and the film was nominated for the NME Award for Best Film. We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. After directing the super low budget "Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench" in 2009, . As a result he was recruited to attend a six-week performing arts class in New York City at the New York School for Film and TV. This will make it easier for readers to find later on. Leading the way with three wins was Boyhood, while Birdman and The Theory of Everything each picked up a pair of wins. 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