Mark Ruffalo's dramatic true story Dark Waters began as a 2016 New York Times article "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare." As the title suggests, the piece focused on a high-powered attorney, Rob Bilott, who took on one of the biggest companies in the world over the lethal contamination of ground water in…
Hollywood has been slow in reacting against Georgia’s Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act, legislation known as the “heartbeat bill” that prohibits most abortions in the state once doctors can detect a fetal heartbeat.
Signed into law this week, the bill –Â now one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws…
When Brady Corbet took his debut film The Childhood of a Leader to the Venice Film Festival in 2015, it was immediately embraced. Winning two prizes—the Luigi de Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film, and the Venice Horizons Award—its reception at this prestigious festival seemed to herald the emergence of a startling and…
Three film luminaries — Paul Schrader, Christine Vachon and Ethan Hawke — shared the stage recently at Deadline’s The Contenders New York to ruminate on a subject often left on the cutting-room floor: religion.
A24’s First Reformed, written and directed by Schrader, who grew up in a strict Calvinist household, depicts…
At the “The Power of Story: Culture of Shift” panel at the Sundance Film Festival this morning, Octavia Spencer reminded the crowd that the current female empowerment revolution of #MeToo and Time’s Up “can’t be about women versus men.” Rather, she said, we need to make sure “it’s about the people being abused, and…
Following up his Oscar-nominated Carol, Todd Haynes couldn’t have chosen a more ambitious project than Wonderstruck, a tale of two deaf teenagers growing up 50 years apart in New York City, trying to unravel mysteries of their family lives.
Adapted by Brian Selznick from his own novel, the raw materials came to Killer…
The topic was “The Power of Creative Collaboration,” and it seemed inevitable that the long shadow of Harvey Weinstein would be cast over the panels during today’s “Produced By New York” annual confab thrown today by the Producers Guild of America. During the first of two “Master Class” discussions with eight film…
After yesterday’s massive marches across the nation and the around world — and even in Park City, where an estimated 8,000 took to the streets — to support women’s issues in the face of a Donald Trump presidency, its fitting that today’s Deadline Sundance Series topic is the power of women in film.
Deadline senior…
Veteran indie producer Christine Vachon, whose credits include Carol, Still Alice and Boys Don't Cry, is heading to the 13th annual Glasgow Film Festival for its Industry Focus strand. The Killer Films founder will discuss her career and the art of producing in a special In Conversation event. The four-day industry…
The Toronto Film Festival has revealed the lineup of titles that will make up its Canadian offerings next month. Running the gamut from documentaries to dramas, biographies, thrillers and animation, the roster includes veteran filmmakers and emerging talent. Among the world premieres are docs The River Of My Dreams…
Next-generation production and distribution company Rampante, on behalf of Time Inc., is bringing together Christine Vachon’s Killer Films (Still Alice) and newly formed New Orleans-based production company Field Office Films (led by the producers of Beasts Of The Southern Wild) , as well as Patricia Clarkson and…
Nearly 25 years ago, producer Christine Vachon's first film Poison won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Since that Todd Haynes pic, she hasn't snagged the award again, but this year Vachon and Pamela Koffler's Killer Films was back in Park City to celebrate 20 solid years as an indie…
