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EXCLUSIVE: Let The Record Show, written by Sarah Schulman, has been called the most comprehensive political history of American AIDS activism and ACT Up. The book, which was published last month, is now set to be adapted as a narrative TV series by Lean on Pete and Looking director Andrew Haigh, Time and Boys State…

Anne Hathaway, Tahar Rahim, Marisa Tomei, Joanna Kulig and Matthew Broderick have been set to lead the cast of She Came To Me, the romantic comedy from writer-director Rebecca Miller (Maggie's Plan). Film is a multi-generational story set against the backdrop of New York: a composer suffering from writer's block…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winning actress Holly Hunter is in talks to star and produce the feature adaptation of Sue Miller’s bestselling novel Monogamy.  Killer Films and Yellow Bear Films have closed a deal for the book, I hear, with Dani Shapiro set to adapt and also produce. Miller will serve as EP. Released by Harper last…

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from brokering a big Sundance deal for music doc Summer Of Soul, John Sloss’s Cinetic has signed blue-chip producers Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler and their Killer Films banner for representation in all areas. Founded in 1995 by Vachon and Koffler, Killer Films is one of the pre-eminent indie…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM/UA Television has acquired the rights to Rebecca Carroll's upcoming memoir Surviving the White Gaze in a competitive situation ahead of its release. Simon & Schuster is set to publish the book on February 2, 2021. Carroll is set to adapt her memoir as a limited series and serve as an executive producer…

MGM has inked a two-year first-look film and TV development deal with Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler’s Killer Films. "I had one of the best experiences of my career with Christine Vachon and Killer Films on Hedwig and the Angry Inch," said MGM Film Group Chairman Michael De Luca. "All of us at MGM are excited to…

EXCLUSIVE: Lily Collins has been set to star in survival thriller Titan, written and directed by Kill Your Darlings scribe Austin Bunn. Christine Vachon is producing with David Hinojosa for Killer Films. XYZ Films is exec producing and will launch international sales at the upcoming Cannes Market. CAA and UTA are…

EXCLUSIVE: British actor Ray Panthaki has joined the Wash Westmoreland-directed biopic Colette, starring Keira Knightley and Dominic West. Panthaki, who was a 2014 BAFTA Breakthrough Brit, will play real-life French writer and playwright Pierre Veber. Co-written by Westmoreland and the late Richard Glatzer with…

James Franco, Andrew Neel and Killer Films are set to re-team for an adaption of Zola Tells All: The Real Story Behind The Greatest Stripper Saga Ever Tweeted, based on a Rolling Stone article by David Kushner. Franco will direct a script by Neel and Mike Roberts. The pic is based on a 148-tweet travelogue about a…

EXCLUSIVE: Keira Knightley is in talks to star in Colette, a biopic about the French novelist who wrote Gigi and Cheri, which Stephen Frears adapted into a feature film starring Michelle Pfeiffer. Colette will be directed by Still Alice‘s Wash Westmoreland, who co-wrote the script with his late Still Alice…

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…

Douglas McGrath is directing and Killer Films‘ Christine Vachon is producing Brooklyn Bridge, a period pic about the construction of the famous span that links Brooklyn to Manhattan. Daniel Radcliffe is attached to play Washington Roebling, the civil engineer son of the bridge’s original architect, John A. Roebling…