‘Whiplash’ headed back to theaters for 10th anniversary
Sony Pictures Classics just announced that Whiplash, the drama that netted J.K. Simmons a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing possibly the world’s most insane music teacher, is headed back to theaters.
The re-release is to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the film from director Damien Chazelle, who followed up the breakout movie starring Miles Teller with the Oscar-winning La La Land.
In the movie, Teller plays Andrew Neiman, a drummer who ends up under the abusive tutelage of Simmons’ Terrence Fletcher, an instructor at an elite musical conservatory.
The film also won Academy Awards for Best Film Editing and Best Sound Mixing.
Whiplash will also have a 4K HD Digital release on Sept. 20, following a special anniversary screening at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 9.
New Line Cinema and Kevin Costner‘s Territory Pictures have announced that the Oscar winner’s Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 will make its streaming debut Aug. 23 exclusively on Max.
The second installment was originally envisioned as a four-film Western epic that was initially supposed to hit theaters on Aug. 16, but the poor box office reception of the first, which debuted to just $11 million on June 28, caused the studios to pull the sequel from its release date.
The strategy shifted to bringing the film to streaming in hopes of finding an audience and building anticipation for future theatrical releases.
A synopsis of the film says, “Horizon: An American Saga explores the lure of the Old West and how it was won — and lost — through the blood, sweat and tears of many.”
It continues, “Spanning the four years of the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, Costner’s ambitious cinematic adventure will take audiences on an emotional journey across a country at war with itself, experienced through the lens of families, friends, and foes all attempting to discover what it truly means to be the United States of America.”
Director, producer and co-writer Costner stars alongside Sam Worthington, Sienna Miller and Giovanni Ribisi. The movie’s ensemble also includes Abbey Lee, Will Patton, Jena Malone, Michael Rooker and Costner’s Yellowstone nemesis Danny Huston.
On Sept. 7, the Venice Film Festival will screen both the first and second chapters of Costner’s pet project, for which he reportedly invested tens of millions of dollars of his own money to see to its fruition.
As reported, he said the festival’s closing-day double-bill “shows not only their belief in how the two films work together but their support of a director’s vision.”
Netflix has dropped a teaser for the second season of its acclaimed political drama The Diplomat.
There’s no dialogue, but the snippet reveals Allison Janney, who joins the cast for the sophomore frame as Vice President Grace Penn.
As Keri Russell‘s character, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom Kate Wyler, poses on a red carpet with her husband, fellow career diplomat Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell), Janney turns around and stares icily at Russell, setting up an obviously antagonistic relationship between the pair to come.
Also of note, fans had been speculating about whether Hal had survived a cliff-hanger explosion at the end of season 1 — and while it seems he has, the streamer hints the blowback from the incident will continue to unfold.
Its synopsis reads: “A deadly explosion in the heart of London shatters US Ambassador Kate Wyler’s world. Struggling to rebuild the lives that broke and the team that split apart, Kate’s worst fears unfold: The attack that brought her to the UK didn’t come from a rival nation, it came from inside the British government.”
It’s nearly inevitable that after any awards show, people will notice some celebrity names were omitted from the in memoriam segment, and Sunday night’s Emmys were no exception.
The names of Shelley Duvall, Chita Rivera, Tyler Christopher and Johnny Wactor didn’t appear during Jelly Roll‘s heartfelt song tribute to the stars who had recently passed.
Former General Hospital star Christopher passed away at age 50 on Oct. 31, 2023; Chita Rivera died at 91 on Jan. 30. Wactor, another veteran of General Hospital, was fatally shot in Los Angeles during a robbery on May 25. He was 37. Duvall died at 75 years old on July 11.