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19-02-2025
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‘The Brutalist' director says critically-acclaimed movie made him ‘zero dollar's (VIDEO)
LOS ANGELES, Feb 19 — The Brutalist director Brady Corbet revealed that he earned no money from his Oscar-nominated film, despite its critical success. Speaking on WTF With Marc Maron, Corbet said he recently directed commercials in Portugal, which was the first time he had made any money in years. Corbet, alongside his wife and creative partner Mona Fastvold, said that they also made no income from their previous film, Vox Lux (2018). When Maron asked if he was being hyperbolic, Corbet insisted he was honest about his situation. 'Yes. Actually, zero. We had to just sort of live off of a pay cheque from three years ago.' The Brutalist, which earned 10 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Adrien Brody, has not provided financial returns for its creators. Corbet explained that many filmmakers behind Oscar-nominated films struggle financially, with some unable to afford rent despite their industry recognition. He attributed part of the financial strain to the demanding press circuit, saying he has spent six months promoting the film without being paid. The director described the process as exhausting, revealing he conducted 90 interviews in a single week and has not had a day off since Christmas.
Fox News
19-02-2025
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- Fox News
Oscar-nominated director of 'The Brutalist' says he 'made zero dollars' from the movie
"The Brutalist" director is getting real about the realities of making an Oscar-nominated film. During a recent appearance on the "WTF with Marc Maron" podcast, the film's director, Brady Corbet, shared that he and his wife and creative partner, Mona Fastvold, "made zero dollars on the last two films that we made," which include "The Brutalist" and the 2018 film "Vox Lux." "I just directed three advertisements in Portugal. It's the first time that I had made any money in years," he said on the podcast. "I've spoken to many filmmakers that have the films that are nominated this year that can't pay their rent. I mean, that's a real thing." Corbet doubled-down on the fact that he made "actually zero" dollars for his last two films, adding he and his wife have "had to just sort of live off of a paycheck from three years ago." He went on to explain that filmmakers are "not paid to be promoting a film," and often times the promotion schedule can get in the way of other opportunities to make money with their work. "If you look at certain films that premiered in Cannes, that was almost a year ago… I mean, our film premiered in September. So I've been doing this for six months. And had zero income because I don't have any time to go to work. I can't even take a writing job at the moment." Nominated for 10 Oscars at the 2025 Academy Awards, "The Brutalist" follows Jewish architect, László Tóth, played by Adrien Brody, as he moves to America after surviving the Holocaust. The movie sees him trying to make enough money to bring his wife and niece to join him in America, when he connects with a wealthy man who hires him to build a community center. "I've spoken to many filmmakers that have the films that are nominated this year that can't pay their rent. I mean, that's a real thing." Brody has already won the Golden Globe, Critics' Choice Award and the BAFTA for his portrayal of László, and is a frontrunner in the race for best leading actor at the Academy Awards. In addition to nominations for Corbet and Brody, the film is also nominated for best picture, best supporting actress, best supporting actor, best original screenplay and many others. "I'm grateful to have made a movie that speaks to the immense tragedy of a time in history," Brody told Variety in February. "And for it to be told with very little sentimentality, as almost a visual reference of a time that cannot be forgotten and a pervasive undercurrent that cannot be ignored." Brody previously won an Oscar in 2003, for his leading role in the 2002 movie, "The Pianist." He won the award at the age of 29, making him the youngest actor to win the honor.
Yahoo
18-02-2025
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The Brutalist director says Oscar contender made him ‘zero dollars'
The Brutalist director Brady Corbet said that he 'made zero dollars' from the Oscar-nominated film. Corbet's comments come on the heels of the BAFTAs, where The Brutalist won four awards –Brady took home best director, Adrien Brody won best actor for his role as Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor, László Tóth, and the film also won best original score and cinematography. Corbet and Brody both took home best director and best actor at the Golden Globes, in addition to winning best film. The Brutalist has received a whopping 10 nominations at the forthcoming 97th Academy Awards, and has been considered a frontrunner on the awards circuit this year despite controversy over the use of AI in the film. Appearing on Marc Maron's WTF podcast, Corbet said that he had been living paycheck to paycheck, and multiple filmmakers were in a similar situation. 'I just directed three advertisements in Portugal,' Corbet said. 'It's the first time that I had made any money in years.' The Vox Lux director explained that he and wife Mona Fastvold, who co-wrote the screenplay for The Brutalist, 'made zero dollars on the last two films that we made'. Responding to Maron's surprise, Corbet said: 'Yes. Actually, zero. We had to just sort of live off of a paycheck from three years ago.' Corbet went on, saying many other filmmakers are also struggling to make ends meet. 'I've spoken to many filmmakers that have the films that are nominated this year that can't pay their rent. I mean, that's a real thing.' Explaining that filmmakers are 'not paid to be promoting a film,' he continued: 'If you look at certain films that premiered in Cannes, that was almost a year ago… I mean, our film premiered in September. So I've been doing this for six months. And had zero income because I don't have any time to go to work. I can't even take a writing job at the moment.' On the long awards campaign and press circuit he's currently on, Corbet said it felt like 'a six-month interrogation,' and that he had just completed 90 interviews last week. 'It's seven days a week,' he said. 'It's boundless. It's constant travel, and you're also working Saturdays and Sundays. I haven't had a day off since the Christmas break, and that was also only four days.' The Brutalist spans 30 years and explores the life of Hungarian Jewish architect László Tóth, who survives the Holocaust and, after emigrating to America with his wife, played by Felicity Jones, crosses paths with the mysterious Harrison Lee Van Buren, played by Guy Pearce, who changes the course of his life. In a five-star review of The Brutalist for The Independent, Clarisse Loughrey wrote: 'It's not a film to devour, but to be devoured by. There's such a weight to it that it creates its own field of gravity – which, coupled with the same fierce cynicism of Corbet's previous films, The Childhood of a Leader (2015) and his pop star psychodrama Vox Lux (2018), turns a traditional historical epic into an existentially disturbing monster movie. The monster in question, of course, is America.'
The Independent
18-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
The Brutalist director says Oscar contender made him ‘zero dollars'
The Brutalist director Brady Corbet said that he 'made zero dollars' from the Oscar-nominated film. Corbet's comments come on the heels of the BAFTAs, where The Brutalist won four awards – Brady took home best director, Adrien Brody won best actor for his role as Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor, László Tóth, and the film also won best original score and cinematography. Corbet and Brody both took home best director and best actor at the Golden Globes, in addition to winning best film. The Brutalist has received a whopping 10 nominations at the forthcoming 97th Academy Awards, and has been considered a frontrunner on the awards circuit this year despite controversy over the use of AI in the film. Appearing on Marc Maron's WTF podcast, Corbet said that he had been living paycheck to paycheck, and multiple filmmakers were in a similar situation. 'I just directed three advertisements in Portugal,' Corbet said. 'It's the first time that I had made any money in years.' The Vox Lux director explained that he and wife Mona Fastvold, who co-wrote the screenplay for The Brutalist, 'made zero dollars on the last two films that we made'. Responding to Maron's surprise, Corbet said: 'Yes. Actually, zero. We had to just sort of live off of a paycheck from three years ago.' Corbet went on, saying many other filmmakers are also struggling to make ends meet. 'I've spoken to many filmmakers that have the films that are nominated this year that can't pay their rent. I mean, that's a real thing.' Explaining that filmmakers are 'not paid to be promoting a film,' he continued: 'If you look at certain films that premiered in Cannes, that was almost a year ago… I mean, our film premiered in September. So I've been doing this for six months. And had zero income because I don't have any time to go to work. I can't even take a writing job at the moment.' On the long awards campaign and press circuit he's currently on, Corbet said it felt like 'a six-month interrogation,' and that he had just completed 90 interviews last week. 'It's seven days a week,' he said. 'It's boundless. It's constant travel, and you're also working Saturdays and Sundays. I haven't had a day off since the Christmas break, and that was also only four days.' The Brutalist spans 30 years and explores the life of Hungarian Jewish architect László Tóth, who survives the Holocaust and, after emigrating to America with his wife, played by Felicity Jones, crosses paths with the mysterious Harrison Lee Van Buren, played by Guy Pearce, who changes the course of his life. In a five-star review of The Brutalist for The Independent, Clarisse Loughrey wrote: 'It's not a film to devour, but to be devoured by. There's such a weight to it that it creates its own field of gravity – which, coupled with the same fierce cynicism of Corbet's previous films, The Childhood of a Leader (2015) and his pop star psychodrama Vox Lux (2018), turns a traditional historical epic into an existentially disturbing monster movie. The monster in question, of course, is America.'
Yahoo
17-02-2025
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Natalie Portman On How Brady Corbet's ‘The Brutalist' Is A Welcome Respite In An 'Era Of Algorithmic Content Creation And Franchise Fatigue'
Editor's Note: Natalie Portman previously worked with Brady Corbet in his 2018 drama Vox Lux, in which she played Celeste, the survivor of a high school shooting who is ultimately transformed into a tough-talking pop star. Corbet shot his 3x Golden Globe winning and 10x Oscar nominated The Brutalist in 33 days, clocking in at 3 hours and 34 minutes. For Portman, Corbet excels in delivering stories that follow lone pioneers who are crusading against the corruption of society and those who wield power. I first saw Brady Corbet's The Brutalist in a theater in Paris a few months ago. Having worked with Brady on Vox Lux, I thought I was prepared for the scale of his storytelling, but this film surpasses expectations. More from Deadline BAFTA Awards Analysis: Brits Spread The Wealth, But With 'Conclave' And 'The Brutalist' Winning Major Prizes What Does It Mean For Oscar Voting Still In Progress? China's 'Ne Zha 2' Debuts At $7.2 Million, 'Becoming Led Zeppelin' Rounds Out Top 10, 'A Complete Unknown' Crosses $70 Million - Specialty Box Office Natalie Portman-Lena Dunham Rom-Com 'Good Sex' Sparks EFM Bidding War With Offers At $45M+ In all three of his features, including The Childhood of a Leader, the story of a petulant child in early 20th century Europe who grows up to become a dictator, Brady tells big stories with epic (and epochal) sweep about individuals who become transformed by the eras they are living through, and who, in turn, imprint history with the fruits of their labor — which in Brady's budding oeuvre includes everything from songs and buildings to furniture and leadership styles. Brady's big-swing, small-scale epics —The Brutalist chief among them — are transforming the way movies are made in our maximalist era of algorithmic content creation and franchise fatigue. The Corbet Way is a model of economy delivering a minimum of scale while exuding the intellectual heft and sprawl of a 19th century novel. The Brutalist was shot in 33 days for under $10 million, bringing the 20th-century immigrant experience to life like no other film of its kind since the cinematic era of Lean, Leone and The Leopard. A soaring tribute to the human capacity for creation, Brady and his co-writer (and life-partner) Mona Fastvold concocted a riveting story of perseverance, artistry and the power of love in the face of adversity as László begins life anew in America after experiencing unfathomable horrors in Europe during World War II. Loosely based on the work and careers of several Brutalist architects like Marcel Breuer and Louis Kahn, Corbet and Fastvold succeed in making László, like their other films' protagonists, feel like he could have walked out of real life and into history. Like a cinematic experience from a bygone era, replete with a 15-minute intermission, the 70mm grandeur of The Brutalist is everywhere on screen, from cinematographer Lol Crawley's sweeping VistaVision images, to production designer Judy Becker's masterful mid-century interiors and majestic Brutalist design for László's Institute project, to Daniel Blumberg's resounding and intoxicating score employing slabs of sound to represent László's instrument of choice, concrete. Like The Childhood of a Leader and Vox Lux, The Brutalistis carried along by a first-rate screenplay once again positioning an individual protagonist against the machinations of history, culture, and political life. László channels his wartime pain and grief into the monumental commission at the heart of The Brutalist much like how Celeste in Vox Lux reflected a national tragedy in her music and performance. 'They wanted a show, I gave them a show,' quips Celeste, but those could be László's words, or Brady's. Brady's movies exude showmanship at its most artful — worlds containing multitudes, and among those multitudes, singular people carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders like the Greek Titan Atlas. How they carry that weight and become avatars of America, and citizens of the world, is what makes Brady's work so fascinating and illuminating. Over the course of The Brutalist, László navigates and transcends his pain through his architectural projects, culminating in a career retrospective at the Venice Biennale. The power of art is that it helps us find light when we are in darkness. And like his protagonist László, Brady pursues his artistic vision doggedly against all odds to create lasting, deeply impactful of Deadline How To Watch Sunday's 'SNL50: The Anniversary Special' Online & On TV Everything We Know About Christopher Nolan's Next Film – 'The Odyssey': Release Date, Cast And More 'Bridgerton' Season 4: Everything We Know So Far
