Killer Films

Killer Films
Industry	Film; Television;
Founded	1995
Founder	Christine Vachon; Pamela Koffler;
Headquarters	New York City, New York, United States
Website	Killer Films

Killer Films is a New York City-based independent film production company founded in 1995 by film producers Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler. The company has produced many acclaimed independent films over the past two decades including Far From Heaven (nominated for four Academy Awards), Boys Don't Cry (Academy Award winner), One Hour Photo, Kids, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Happiness, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, I Shot Andy Warhol, Swoon, I'm Not There (Academy Award nominated), Kill Your Darlings, Still Alice (Academy Award winner) and Carol (nominated for six Academy Awards). Killer Films also executive produced Todd Haynes' five episode HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce, which went on to win five Emmys, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

In 2014, Killer Films merged with Glass Elevator Media to form Killer Content, Inc.^[1]

Awards and recognition

Killer Films productions have received multiple awards and nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Emmy Awards, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Independent Spirit Awards. On the occasion of Killer's 10th anniversary in 2005, the company was feted with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.^[2]

Christine Vachon's first feature production, Poison, directed by Todd Haynes, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival. Poison was one of the defining films of the emerging New Queer Cinema.^[3]^[4]^[5] For her work on Far From Heaven, another Todd Haynes collaboration, Vachon was honored by the New York Film Critics Circle, and received the Producer of the Year Award from the National Board of Review.^[6]

Vachon produced the Showtime television adaptation of the public broadcasting radio program, This American Life, for which she won an Emmy. In 2011, Christine was invited to give the State of Cinema Address at the San Francisco Film Society's 54th San Francisco International Film Festival.

Vachon has also written two books on her life and career, Shooting to Kill (1998),^[7] and A Killer Life (2006).^[8]

One of Killer's most recent films, Kill Your Darlings, directed by John Krokidas, and starred Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan, was selected for the Sundance Film Festival and went on to be nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.^[9] After producing Magic Magic, which debuted at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival to wide acclaim, Killer re-teamed with writer-director Sebastián Silva on his new feature, Nasty Baby.^[10]

In 2015, Julianne Moore won the Best Performance by an Actress Oscar for her part in the 2014 Killer film Still Alice, directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, based on the novel of the same name, written by Lisa Genova.^[11] That same year, Killer re-teamed with director Todd Haynes on Carol, based on the 1952 romance novel, The Price of Salt, written by Patricia Highsmith. The film stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.^[12]

In 2017, the company produced Janicza Bravo's Lemon starring Brett Gelman and Judy Greer;^[13] Beatriz at Dinner starring Salma Hayek and Chloë Sevigny;^[14] and Dina directed by Dan Sickles & Antonio Santini, the latter of three winning the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.^[15]^[16]

In May 2017, the company signed a two-year first look deal with Amazon Studios.^[17]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Worldwide box office	Notes
1991	Poison	$787,280^[18]
1992	Swoon	—
1994	Go Fish	$2.4 million^[19]
1994	Postcards from America	—
1995	Safe	$512,245^[20]
	Kids	$7.4 million^[21]
	Stonewall	$692,400^[22]
1996	Plain Pleasures	—
1996	I Shot Andy Warhol	$1.9 million^[23]
1997	Bad Bosses Go to Hell	—	Short film
1997	Office Killer	$76,054^[24]
1998	Happiness	$2.8 million^[25]
	Velvet Goldmine	$1.1 million^[26]
	I'm Losing You	$13,996^[27]
	Dark Harbor	—
1999	Boys Don't Cry	$11.5 million^[28]	Won one Academy Award
2000	Crime + Punishment in Suburbia	$26,394^[29]
2001	Series 7: The Contenders	$195,065^[30]
	Women in Film	—
	The Safety of Objects	$319,299^[31]
	Storytelling	$2 million^[32]
	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	$3.6 million^[33]
	The Grey Zone	$517,872^[34]
	Chelsea Walls	$60,902^[35]
2002	One Hour Photo	$52 million^[36]
2002	Far From Heaven	$29 million^[37]	Nominated for four Academy Awards
2003	Party Monster	$742,898^[38]
	Camp	$2.6 million^[39]
	The Company	$6.4 million^[40]
2004	A Home at the End of the World	$1.5 million^[41]
2004	A Dirty Shame	$1.9 million^[42]
2005	The Notorious Bettie Page	$1.8 million^[43]
2006	Infamous	$2.6 million^[44]
2007	An American Crime	$1.3 million^[45]
	Savage Grace	$1.4 million^[46]
	I'm Not There	$11.7 million^[47]	Nominated for one Academy Award
	Then She Found Me	$8.4 million^[48]
2008	Gigantic	$165,888^[49]
2009	Motherhood	$726,354^[50]
	Cracks	$29,683^[51]
	Cairo Time	$2 million^[52]
2010	Lulu at the Ace Hotel	—	Short film
	Loop Planes	—	Short film
	Virginia	$12,728^[53]
	Dirty Girl	$55,125^[54]
2011	Dragonslayer	—
2012	Shut Up and Play the Hits	$629,107^[55]
2012	At Any Price	$380,594^[56]
2013	Magic Magic	—
	Kill Your Darlings	$2.1 million^[57]
	Dealin' with Idiots	$17,909^[58]
	Deep Powder	—
	The Last of Robin Hood	$288,545^[59]
	WildLike	—
	Bluebird	—
2014	Young Bodies Heal Quickly	—
	Electric Slide	—
	Still Alice	$44 million^[60]	Won one Academy Award
	Mala Mala	$10,761^[61]
2015	Nasty Baby	$80,828^[62]
	Carol	$40.3 million^[63]	Nominated for nine British Academy Film Awards Nominated for six Academy Awards Nominated for five Golden Globe Awards
	Big Sky	—
2016	Woman in Deep	—	Short film
	Goat	$23,020^[64]
	Wiener-Dog	$716,633^[65]^[66]
	White Girl	$200,242^[67]
	Frank & Lola	$9,188^[68]
	A Kind of Murder	$89,899^[69]
	London Town	$1,126^[70]
2017	Dina	$96,524^[71]
	Lemon	$29,528^[72]
	Where Is Kyra?	$59,717^[73]
	Beatriz at Dinner	$7.4 million^[74]
	Wonderstruck	$3.3 million^[75]
	My Days of Mercy	$18,766^[76]
	First Reformed	$3.9 million^[77]	Nominated for one Academy Award
2018	Colette	$13.8 million^[78]
2018	Vox Lux	$1.4 million^[79]
2019	American Woman	$245,416^[80]
	Inside the Rain	$8,140^[81]
	Dark Waters	$23.1 million^[82]
2020	Zola	$4.5-5 million^[83]
	Shirley	$305,805^[84]^[85]
	The World to Come	$204,797^[86]
	Brothers by Blood	$104,744^[87]
2021	The Velvet Underground	—
2022	Under the Influence	—
2022	Anything's Possible	—
2023	Past Lives	$42.3 million^[88]	Nominated for two Academy Awards
	She Came to Me	$1.2 million^[89]
	A Good Person	$3.1 million^[90]
	May December	$5.3 million^[91]	Nominated for one Academy Award
2024	A Different Man	TBA
2024	Bleeding Love	$7,042^[92]
TBA	Materialists	TBA
	Omni Loop	TBA
	On Swift Horses	TBA
	The Brutalist	TBA

Television

Year	Title	Notes
2005	Mrs. Harris	TV movie Nominated for twelve Emmy Awards^[93]
2007–2009	This American Life	TV series Won three Emmy Awards^[94]
2010	The Neistat Brothers	TV series
2011	Mildred Pierce	TV miniseries Won five Emmy Awards^[95]
2015–2017	Z: The Beginning of Everything	TV series
2018–2019	This Close	TV series
2021	Halston	TV miniseries
2021	Pride	TV miniseries

References

External links

Killer Films website
Christine Vachon (February 24, 2017). Film-makers can defy Trump. Depicting the lives of others is an act of resistance. The Guardian

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