Christine Vachon
Joaquin Phoenix Exits Todd Haynes’ Gay Romance Movie Days Before Filming Was to Begin
Joaquin Phoenix has exited Todd Haynes’ planned romantic drama feature, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The untitled project is no longer moving forward after the actor dropped out just five days before filming was set to begin in Guadalajara, Mexico. The role will not be recast for the movie that Phoenix had initially brought to […]
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Christine Vachon: “The Strikes Had a Much More Profound” Impact on Indie Film Than COVID
“In a funny way, the strikes had a much more profound effect on changing the business than COVID did.” That was the assessment shared by legendary independent film producer Christine Vachon during a session at the Industry Days program of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Tuesday. Her comments came during a fireside chat […]
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Karlovy Vary Fest Unveils Lineup With Oleh Sentsov Ukraine War Doc; Geoffrey Rush Among Jurors
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) has unveiled its competition and other lineups for its 58th edition, set to run in the Czech spa town from June 28 to July 6. It also set its competition jury, including indie film producer Christine Vachon who will be joined by Australian actor Geoffrey Rush, Hungarian director […]
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‘Past Lives’ Producer Christine Vachon on Working With Debut Director Celine Song: “There’s a Passion That Comes With Making Your First Film”
After decades of producing critically acclaimed and groundbreaking independent films, Christine Vachon has landed her first Oscar nomination with Celine Song’s Past Lives. Appropriately, she found out about her nomination while she was on the ground at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where Past Lives premiered the year prior, becoming the sleeper hit of the […]
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Steven Soderbergh, Richard Linklater and Jesse Eisenberg Join Sundance’s Beyond Film Lineup
The schedule for the milestone 40th Sundance Film Festival continues to fall into focus. The beloved Utah event — scheduled for Jan. 19-26 in Park City — has unveiled the lineup for Beyond Film programming and revealed that the documentary The Greatest Night in Pop, a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the iconic song “We […]
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Christine Vachon on Making Cinemagoing “a Bigger Experience,” Being “Not Well Suited to Make a Marvel Movie”
Superheroes, making moviegoing a bigger event and the Hollywood writers strike were among the topics of a Monday masterclass featuring legendary independent film producer Christine Vachon that was part of the second day of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s Eastern Promises Industry Day program. One of the questions Vachon received was whether cinemas are […]
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Christine Vachon on Why She Loves Working With First-Time Directors “Making the Story They Really Want to Tell”
Christine Vachon’s work at Killer Films, the state of independent film and working with first-time directors were among the topics addressed by the veteran indie film producer during a tribute dinner in her honor at the 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Sunday. With this year’s edition of the big Czech cinema fest paying […]
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Christine Vachon on the State of Indie Filmmaking, Getting Picketed in the ’90s and Her Concern for Young Writers During the WGA Strike
Christine Vachon and her Killer Films productions are regulars on the festival circuit, with 2023 being no different. Vachon started the year at Sundance, with festival break-out Celine Song’s Past Lives, and then headed to Cannes with her latest collaboration with director Todd Haynes, May December, which screened in competition at the Palais. At 57th […]
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More Stars, Less Politics as Karlovy Vary Film Fest Rolls Out the Red Carpet
At this time last year, the organizers of the Karlovy Vary international film festival — the biggest cinema event in the Czech Republic and the premium A-list festival for all of Eastern Europe — were scrambling. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, just a few months earlier, had disputed the entire region. Filmmakers from Prague to […]
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FX’s ‘Pride’: TV Review
The six-part docuseries chronicles the LGBTQ+ rights movement from the 1950s on, turning each episode over to a different filmmaker with a different artistic approach.
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Venice Film Festival Unveils International Juries
Joanna Hogg, Ludivine Sagnier and Christian Petzold join jury president Cate Blanchett to judge the competition titles at the 77th Venice International Film Festival.
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‘Dark Waters,’ ‘Harriet’ Teams Talk Telling Stories of Real-Life Heroes
How 'Dark Waters' and 'Harriet' told true stories of real-life heroes in Rob Bilott and Harriet Tubman, according to producers, directors and stars at the 2019 Produced By: New York conference.
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