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jaramajo.livejournal.comjaramajo.livejournal.comGreat Piano behind scenes
Jun. 6th, 2013 04:51 pmjaramajo.livejournal.comMaybe someone could translate it, I'm sure she or he does it better and faster than me.
Elijah playing piano in "Grand Piano"
Jun. 5th, 2013 12:31 amjaramajo.livejournal.com( Video in Youtube )
Comment about "Grand Piano"
May. 18th, 2013 12:52 amjaramajo.livejournal.comToday has been a movie day - it started with GRAND PIANO - the latest from Eugenio Mira - starring Elijah Wood - a highly enjoyable mix of elements from Argento's OPERA and some of De Palma's finest thrillers. The camerawork is masterful and the concept which admittedly takes some shaky turns works and Wood pulls off the piano playing role with aplomb.
http://www.frightfest.co.uk/Postcardsfromcannes/frightfestpos-14.html
http://www.frightfest.co.uk/Postcardsfromcannes/frightfestpos-14.html
jaramajo.livejournal.comCatalan Films eMagazine issue in English (page 33).
http://issuu.com/catalanarts/docs/catalan__films_emagazine_eng_4
http://issuu.com/catalanarts/docs/catalan__films_emagazine_eng_4
A Visit To The Set Of GRAND PIANO
Oct. 22nd, 2012 08:26 pmjaramajo.livejournal.comTwo quotes:
He [Elijah] spent nearly a month in intensive piano training before coming to Spain, so that in many scenes, you will know it is actually him playing. By a lucky coincidence, his stand-in for the film is also a piano teacher, and coaches Wood on set, as well as providing feedback on Wood's playing scenes. "Hector is my eyes for every take, and I look to see to see if it passes the test of believability." We've all seen films where actors have to fake a skill, and it's great to know that Wood is putting in the effort to play as much as he can, as well as he can.
Wood recalls that one of his most difficult scenes involved a scene where he had to play part of the piece, at the same time as listening to prerecorded audio from his character's nemesis, answering his nemesis, and listening for his music cues. He said that "the amazing thing is that my character is in an incredibly stressful situation, and I didn't have to fake it at all, because I was completely stressed."
http://twitchfilm.com/2012/10/grand-piano-looks-very-grand-indeed.html
He [Elijah] spent nearly a month in intensive piano training before coming to Spain, so that in many scenes, you will know it is actually him playing. By a lucky coincidence, his stand-in for the film is also a piano teacher, and coaches Wood on set, as well as providing feedback on Wood's playing scenes. "Hector is my eyes for every take, and I look to see to see if it passes the test of believability." We've all seen films where actors have to fake a skill, and it's great to know that Wood is putting in the effort to play as much as he can, as well as he can.
Wood recalls that one of his most difficult scenes involved a scene where he had to play part of the piece, at the same time as listening to prerecorded audio from his character's nemesis, answering his nemesis, and listening for his music cues. He said that "the amazing thing is that my character is in an incredibly stressful situation, and I didn't have to fake it at all, because I was completely stressed."
http://twitchfilm.com/2012/10/grand-piano-looks-very-grand-indeed.html
News about Grand Piano shooting
Aug. 7th, 2012 12:01 amjaramajo.livejournal.comhttp://www.parcaudiovisual.cat/c-Contenidos/a-anuncio/cat-MTA/sub-Mjg/id-MjEw/grand_piano_amb_elijah_wood_es_roda_al_parc_audiovisual.html
'Grand Piano', with Elijah Wood, is shooting at Audiovisual Park
The sets 2, 3 and 4 of Park host this production throughout the summer. The assembly is underway, and shooting with actors will begin in late August. The latest film by Eugenio Mira (who visited us in 2009 with 'Agnosia') will be shot over three months (July 9 to 21 October) at Audiovisual Park. After several efforts to determine the actual location of the movie, 'Grand Piano' arrives in Terrassa with a great production team to set up the machinery of filming. The production is by Rodrigo Cortés with Nostromo Films and collaborates with them Adrian Guerra (who also participated in 'Buried'). The screenplay by Damien Chazelle and Eugenio Mira ('Agnosia' 'The Birthday', actor in 'Red Lights') is also the director of this great production, where will direct Elijah Wood (Frodo in 'Lord of the Rings' ) in the leading role. 'Grand Piano' is an indie thriller where Wood will play a concert pianist away from stage suffering scenic panic, when he returns, will be harassed by a madman that will endanger their life and those of his loved ones. He may not miss a single note of the score if he wants to avoid the tragedy. So all ready to transform the sets of the park, again, in a fictional world that in this case will have an excellent team of professionals to create a stunning and magnificent scenery where the story will develop. With this film, Terrassa has already hosted this first half of de year 30 audiovisual productions, maintaining its position as one of the first cities in Catalonia where is most currently shooting.
'Grand Piano', with Elijah Wood, is shooting at Audiovisual Park
The sets 2, 3 and 4 of Park host this production throughout the summer. The assembly is underway, and shooting with actors will begin in late August. The latest film by Eugenio Mira (who visited us in 2009 with 'Agnosia') will be shot over three months (July 9 to 21 October) at Audiovisual Park. After several efforts to determine the actual location of the movie, 'Grand Piano' arrives in Terrassa with a great production team to set up the machinery of filming. The production is by Rodrigo Cortés with Nostromo Films and collaborates with them Adrian Guerra (who also participated in 'Buried'). The screenplay by Damien Chazelle and Eugenio Mira ('Agnosia' 'The Birthday', actor in 'Red Lights') is also the director of this great production, where will direct Elijah Wood (Frodo in 'Lord of the Rings' ) in the leading role. 'Grand Piano' is an indie thriller where Wood will play a concert pianist away from stage suffering scenic panic, when he returns, will be harassed by a madman that will endanger their life and those of his loved ones. He may not miss a single note of the score if he wants to avoid the tragedy. So all ready to transform the sets of the park, again, in a fictional world that in this case will have an excellent team of professionals to create a stunning and magnificent scenery where the story will develop. With this film, Terrassa has already hosted this first half of de year 30 audiovisual productions, maintaining its position as one of the first cities in Catalonia where is most currently shooting.
Grand Piano shooting
Aug. 2nd, 2012 07:50 pmjaramajo.livejournal.comhttp://www.naciodigital.cat/latorredelpalau/noticia/18555/produccions/mesos/prestigi/marca/sitges
See third paragraph.
And the big news, the latest work of Eugenio Mira (who visited the complex in 2009 with 'Agnosia') will shoot for three months on set 3. Produced by Rodrigo Cortés with Nostromo Films 'Grand Piano' is an indie thriller in which Elijah Wood plays a concert pianist besieged by a lunatic. The production was filmed in Chicago for a week and now Terrassa taking over the American city.
http://www.parcaudiovisual.cat/inicio-true/ir_al_inicio.html
NEWS:
Jul 31 – Oct 21
Grand piano, with Elijah Wood, is being shot at Parc Audiovisual.
EDIT:
See information about set 3
http://www.parcaudiovisual.cat/c-Contenidos/a-anuncio/cat-Mg/sub-NDA/id-NDg/platos.html
Go to the bottom, "Plató 3".
See third paragraph.
And the big news, the latest work of Eugenio Mira (who visited the complex in 2009 with 'Agnosia') will shoot for three months on set 3. Produced by Rodrigo Cortés with Nostromo Films 'Grand Piano' is an indie thriller in which Elijah Wood plays a concert pianist besieged by a lunatic. The production was filmed in Chicago for a week and now Terrassa taking over the American city.
http://www.parcaudiovisual.cat/inicio-true/ir_al_inicio.html
NEWS:
Jul 31 – Oct 21
Grand piano, with Elijah Wood, is being shot at Parc Audiovisual.
EDIT:
See information about set 3
http://www.parcaudiovisual.cat/c-Contenidos/a-anuncio/cat-Mg/sub-NDA/id-NDg/platos.html
Go to the bottom, "Plató 3".
Professional pianist for Grand Piano
Jul. 22nd, 2012 10:20 amjaramajo.livejournal.comIs searched professional pianist as double and coach for Elijah.
http://valencia.loquo.com/ps/comunidad/artistas-musicos/pianista-doble-de-elijah-wood-para-pelicula/1838996
http://valencia.loquo.com/ps/comunidad/artistas-musicos/pianista-doble-de-elijah-wood-para-pelicula/1838996
Grand Piano, I guess
Jul. 16th, 2012 05:54 pmjaramajo.livejournal.comWanted double (people who look like very much on face and physically) for the actors Elijah Wood (Frodo in Lord of the Rings) and JOHN CUSACK for major film to be shot in Barcelona.
http://www.loquo.com/ps/ofertas-de-trabajo/otras-ofertas-de-trabajo/doble-de-elijah-wood-frodo-y-john-cusack-remunerado/21054287
http://www.loquo.com/ps/ofertas-de-trabajo/otras-ofertas-de-trabajo/doble-de-elijah-wood-frodo-y-john-cusack-remunerado/21054287
News about Grand Piano
Jun. 8th, 2012 08:27 pmjaramajo.livejournal.com
Shooting beginning in August maybe not in Alicante but in Barcelona.
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This is a production budgeted at more than eight million euros, which will require several weeks to rebuild the interior of a theater in Chicago, where runs the plot.
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"It is not yet taken the final decision," he added (director), "the producers are doing accounts." "But if Catalonia offers 400,000 euros and the Consell (Valencia) does not give us any incentives, probably we have to go to Barcelona to shoot." This, despite that Barcelona has not any set with required dimensions, so we will need to put in condition one warehouse.
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Thanks to the success of his latest film, "Agnosia", and presence of stars like Elijah Wood and John Cusack in the cast, "Grand Piano" already has guaranteed international distribution. Shooting will begin in August and run for seven weeks, with another week more in Chicago, for filming outdoors.
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http://www.abc.es/20120608/alicante/abcp-cataluna-ayudas-publicas-para-20120608.html
Support for GRAND PIANO
May. 9th, 2012 03:25 pmnewleaf31.livejournal.com(What to title this post...?)
According to Screen Daily, an organization called The Solution Entertainment Group will be working with the producers of GRAND PIANO at Cannes in order to help the film get picked up by an international distributor.
I could see this article for a second, long enough to skim it, and then suddenly it disappeared and became subscription-only content. Deadline reposted the story (but won't let me hotlink; go to Deadline.com and search Elijah's name and you should find the article):
Ahead of the company’s first Cannes, Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel’s The Solution Entertainment Group has acquired international rights to psychological thriller Grand Piano from the producing team of Adrian Guerra and Rodrigo Cortés. Elijah Wood will star in the project to be directed by Eugenio Mira from a script by Damien Chazelle. Shooting is scheduled to begin in July, under Guerra and Cortés’ Nostromo Pictures. Story sets Wood as a piano virtuoso forced into early retirement because of crippling stage fright. When he returns to the stage, the recital turns deadly and he is forced to literally play for his life. The Solution will commence sales at Cannes next week where Wilson tells me she’ll be aided by former Icon UK head of sales Anthony Buckner. Wood, who’s currently filming Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, also stars in the Cannes official selection midnight screening title Maniac. He’s repped by WME, Brillstein Entertainment and Stone Meyer.
But Deadline makes it sound as if The Solution is itself a distributor that's picked up the international rights to the film, which is not what the original article at Screen Daily seems to say. The Solution seems to be more like an agent for the movie itself; they'll represent the movie at Cannes and network all the negotiations with prospective distributors. Fingers crossed they'll be successful.
According to Screen Daily, an organization called The Solution Entertainment Group will be working with the producers of GRAND PIANO at Cannes in order to help the film get picked up by an international distributor.
I could see this article for a second, long enough to skim it, and then suddenly it disappeared and became subscription-only content. Deadline reposted the story (but won't let me hotlink; go to Deadline.com and search Elijah's name and you should find the article):
Ahead of the company’s first Cannes, Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel’s The Solution Entertainment Group has acquired international rights to psychological thriller Grand Piano from the producing team of Adrian Guerra and Rodrigo Cortés. Elijah Wood will star in the project to be directed by Eugenio Mira from a script by Damien Chazelle. Shooting is scheduled to begin in July, under Guerra and Cortés’ Nostromo Pictures. Story sets Wood as a piano virtuoso forced into early retirement because of crippling stage fright. When he returns to the stage, the recital turns deadly and he is forced to literally play for his life. The Solution will commence sales at Cannes next week where Wilson tells me she’ll be aided by former Icon UK head of sales Anthony Buckner. Wood, who’s currently filming Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, also stars in the Cannes official selection midnight screening title Maniac. He’s repped by WME, Brillstein Entertainment and Stone Meyer.
But Deadline makes it sound as if The Solution is itself a distributor that's picked up the international rights to the film, which is not what the original article at Screen Daily seems to say. The Solution seems to be more like an agent for the movie itself; they'll represent the movie at Cannes and network all the negotiations with prospective distributors. Fingers crossed they'll be successful.
More about Grand Piano
May. 5th, 2012 12:16 amjaramajo.livejournal.comAccording to this Spanish newspaper's information, dated in Valencia (near Alicante), shooting of Grand Piano will begin in June.
http://www.abc.es/20120504/comunidad-valencia/abcp-elijah-wood-gran-piano-20120504.html
( Read more... )
http://www.abc.es/20120504/comunidad-valencia/abcp-elijah-wood-gran-piano-20120504.html
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More about "Grand Piano"
May. 3rd, 2012 12:34 amjaramajo.livejournal.comFrom a Spanish Blog
http://www.blogdecine.com/actores/elijah-wood-rodara-en-espana-gran-piano
Today is a day of good news for Spanish directors, besides that we just announced on the Spaniard Juan Luis Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego and his project 'Open Grave', with Sharlto Copley, comes another about Eugenio Mira Alicante responsible for the long 'Agnosia' and 'The Birthday' and a pair of shorts.
As we knew from another postscripts to my companion, Mira will direct the script by Damien Chazelle 'Grand Piano', with production of Rodrigo Cortes and Adrian Guerra, who also participated in 'Buried (enterrado)'. We report now that the actor Elijah Wood star in this independent thriller, to be shot, later this summer, on the sets of the City of Light in Alicante, plus a week in Chicago.
The concept of the film is described "as ' Speed ', but with a piano'. To understand it better, what will happen is that Tom, the protagonist, a retired pianist now suffering stage fright, returns to the stage after five years away from the stage. When going to start playing his concert, he discovers that a madman has written the score to alert he has to give the note: loss of a single note of his execution, who will be executed him and his wife. We, as a "concerto for piano and gun."
Wood, whom I will always remember as Frodo, much as was known before this paper takes up the character of 'The Lord of the Rings' in 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey', coming in December. At the same time is associated with several projects, some television or animation, that is, that only require his voice. 'Maniac', which has its physical interpretation, is going to Cannes this May. Not the first time that Elijah shoot to the orders of a Spanish because, you remember, it did in 2008 in 'The Oxford Murders', and Alex de la Iglesia.
Automatic translation
newleaf31.livejournal.comFrom Entertainment Weekly:
Pop quiz, hotshot. We have your wife and you’re about to start playing play Rachmaninoff’s 3rd Concerto from a stage in front of hundreds of people. You play one false note — just one — and you can kiss her goodbye. What do you do? What. Do. You. Do.
That’s a tired overdramatization of how the Hollywood Reporter characterized the recently announced film, Grand Piano, which will star Elijah Wood as an emotionally fragile pianist returning to the concert hall for the first time after a five-year layoff, only to discover a violent threat scribbled on his sheet music. “Speed at a piano,” blared the trade.
Well, sort of. Wood chuckled when he heard that description of the project, to be directed by Spanish filmmaker Eugenia Mira and filmed mostly in the director’s native country later this summer. “We always need some kind of tagline for a point of reference, don’t we?” he said from the set of the second season of Wilfred. “It’s extremely Hitchcockian. It’s essentially a heist over the course of a classical piano performance in a concert hall. The pianist that I play is essentially being held hostage and being told to play and not to miss a note, or he’ll be shot or his wife will be shot. The script is exhilarating. I really never read anything quite like it. It’s incredibly suspenseful in a really classical way.”
Most all the action takes place during the concert performance, so Wood is prepping himself for a lot of time seated at the piano. “I used to play when I was younger,” said the Lord of the Rings star. “My character is supposed to be a genius, so it is a little bit daunting and I think we have some work ahead of us to make sure that it comes across.”
Speaking of Lord of the Rings, the actor who plays the beloved hobbit Frodo addressed the mixed reception that footage of The Hobbit received last week at CinemaCon, where some members of the audience complained about the glossy “TV soap opera” feel that is related to Peter Jackson’s decision to film his prequels at 48 frames a second, twice the industry standard. “What people saw, from what I understand, is an ungraded piece of footage, and I doubt if there was any film grain added. I think the coloring was probably off. It probably was still in its infancy in regards to actually being able to tell what it’s really going to be like. And I think it will take a period of adjustment. We’re not used to seeing a lack of motion blur,” said Wood. “But I think it could be exhilarating and fascinating. It’s interesting as an experiment. Look, I think people will get to see the movie in regular 24 and have a completely unhindered experience that won’t be challenging. But I think it’s also intriguing to play with technology and there are many that think it’s sort of a trailblazing move forward. I mean, I have yet to really see it, so it’s difficult for me to comment. But it will be interesting to see once it’s finally put together. It could be incredible, and it could also point us to the point where we feel like that’s not a place that we have to take cinema. It’s unknown territory, and I think that’s fascinating.”
[He sounds so erudite, and it's wonderful that he doesn't dumb anything down. Dear Lord, he's so intelligent and level-headed. I just love that man. -- R]
Pop quiz, hotshot. We have your wife and you’re about to start playing play Rachmaninoff’s 3rd Concerto from a stage in front of hundreds of people. You play one false note — just one — and you can kiss her goodbye. What do you do? What. Do. You. Do.
That’s a tired overdramatization of how the Hollywood Reporter characterized the recently announced film, Grand Piano, which will star Elijah Wood as an emotionally fragile pianist returning to the concert hall for the first time after a five-year layoff, only to discover a violent threat scribbled on his sheet music. “Speed at a piano,” blared the trade.
Well, sort of. Wood chuckled when he heard that description of the project, to be directed by Spanish filmmaker Eugenia Mira and filmed mostly in the director’s native country later this summer. “We always need some kind of tagline for a point of reference, don’t we?” he said from the set of the second season of Wilfred. “It’s extremely Hitchcockian. It’s essentially a heist over the course of a classical piano performance in a concert hall. The pianist that I play is essentially being held hostage and being told to play and not to miss a note, or he’ll be shot or his wife will be shot. The script is exhilarating. I really never read anything quite like it. It’s incredibly suspenseful in a really classical way.”
Most all the action takes place during the concert performance, so Wood is prepping himself for a lot of time seated at the piano. “I used to play when I was younger,” said the Lord of the Rings star. “My character is supposed to be a genius, so it is a little bit daunting and I think we have some work ahead of us to make sure that it comes across.”
Speaking of Lord of the Rings, the actor who plays the beloved hobbit Frodo addressed the mixed reception that footage of The Hobbit received last week at CinemaCon, where some members of the audience complained about the glossy “TV soap opera” feel that is related to Peter Jackson’s decision to film his prequels at 48 frames a second, twice the industry standard. “What people saw, from what I understand, is an ungraded piece of footage, and I doubt if there was any film grain added. I think the coloring was probably off. It probably was still in its infancy in regards to actually being able to tell what it’s really going to be like. And I think it will take a period of adjustment. We’re not used to seeing a lack of motion blur,” said Wood. “But I think it could be exhilarating and fascinating. It’s interesting as an experiment. Look, I think people will get to see the movie in regular 24 and have a completely unhindered experience that won’t be challenging. But I think it’s also intriguing to play with technology and there are many that think it’s sort of a trailblazing move forward. I mean, I have yet to really see it, so it’s difficult for me to comment. But it will be interesting to see once it’s finally put together. It could be incredible, and it could also point us to the point where we feel like that’s not a place that we have to take cinema. It’s unknown territory, and I think that’s fascinating.”
[He sounds so erudite, and it's wonderful that he doesn't dumb anything down. Dear Lord, he's so intelligent and level-headed. I just love that man. -- R]
