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. Their logo consists of a rabbit with a dartboard for a body.

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.

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. 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.

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), and A Killer Life (2006).

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. 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.

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. 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.

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

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

Filmography

Film Year Title Worldwide box office Notes 1991 Poison $787,280 1992 Swoon 1994 Go Fish $2.4 million Postcards from America 1995 Safe $512,245 Kids $7.4 million Stonewall $692,400 1996 Plain Pleasures I Shot Andy Warhol $1.9 million 1997 Bad Bosses Go to Hell Short film Office Killer $76,054 1998 Happiness $2.8 million Velvet Goldmine $1.1 million I'm Losing You $13,996 Dark Harbor 1999 Boys Don't Cry $11.5 million Won one Academy Award 2000 Crime + Punishment in Suburbia $26,394 2001 Series 7: The Contenders $195,065 Women in Film The Safety of Objects $319,299 Storytelling $2 million Hedwig and the Angry Inch $3.6 million The Grey Zone $517,872 Chelsea Walls $60,902 2002 One Hour Photo $52 million Far From Heaven $29 million Nominated for four Academy Awards 2003 Party Monster $742,898 Camp $2.6 million The Company $6.4 million 2004 A Home at the End of the World $1.5 million A Dirty Shame $1.9 million 2005 The Notorious Bettie Page $1.8 million 2006 Infamous $2.6 million 2007 An American Crime $1.3 million Savage Grace $1.4 million I'm Not There $11.7 million Nominated for one Academy Award Then She Found Me $8.4 million 2008 Gigantic $165,888 2009 Motherhood $726,354 Cracks $29,683 Cairo Time $2 million 2010 Lulu at the Ace Hotel Short film Loop Planes Short film Virginia $12,728 Dirty Girl $55,125 2011 Dragonslayer 2012 Shut Up and Play the Hits $629,107 At Any Price $380,594 2013 Magic Magic Kill Your Darlings $2.1 million Dealin' with Idiots $17,909 Deep Powder The Last of Robin Hood $288,545 WildLike Bluebird 2014 Young Bodies Heal Quickly Electric Slide Still Alice $44 million Won one Academy Award Mala Mala $10,761 2015 Nasty Baby $80,828 Carol $40.3 million Nominated for nine British Academy Film AwardsNominated for six Academy AwardsNominated for five Golden Globe Awards Big Sky 2016 Woman in Deep Short film Goat $23,020 Wiener-Dog $716,633 White Girl $200,242 Frank & Lola $9,188 A Kind of Murder $89,899 London Town $1,126 2017 Dina $96,524 Lemon $29,528 Where Is Kyra? $59,717 Beatriz at Dinner $7.4 million Wonderstruck $3.3 millionMy Days of Mercy $18,766 First Reformed $3.9 million Nominated for one Academy Award 2018Colette $13.8 million Vox Lux $1.4 million 2019 American Woman $245,416 Inside the Rain $8,140 Dark Waters $23.1 million 2020 Zola $4.5-5 million Shirley $305,805The World to Come $204,797Brothers by Blood $104,744 2021The Velvet Underground 2022Under the InfluenceAnything's Possible 2023Past Lives $42.5 million Nominated for two Academy AwardsShe Came to Me $1.2 millionBleeding Love $7,042A Good Person $3.1 millionMay December $5.3 million Nominated for one Academy Award 2024A Different Man $1.5 million Nominated for one Academy Award 2025Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)Materialists $108 millionLate Fame 2026Barbara Forever TBA De Noche The Exiles Fleur The Last DayLone Wolf Pretty Babies

Television

Year Title Notes 2005 Mrs. Harris TV movieNominated for twelve Emmy Awards 2007–2009 This American Life TV seriesWon three Emmy Awards 2010 The Neistat Brothers TV series 2011 Mildred Pierce TV miniseriesWon five Emmy Awards 2015–2017 Z: The Beginning of Everything TV series 2018–2019 This Close TV series 2021 Halston TV miniseries 2021 Pride TV miniseries

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