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 homage to her, Vachon shared insights and anecdotes with an audience of select guests in cocktail attire at the spa town’s Grandhotel Pupp. The hotel served as a location for James Bond film Casino Royale (in which it was featured as Hotel Splendide) and has been cited as the inspiration for the Grand Budapest Hotel in the Wes Anderson movie of the same name.
Several questions during a brief conversation at the start of the event focused on Vachon’s priorities and the work of her Killer Films production company. “We are...
With this year’s edition of the big Czech cinema fest paying homage to her, Vachon shared insights and anecdotes with an audience of select guests in cocktail attire at the spa town’s Grandhotel Pupp. The hotel served as a location for James Bond film Casino Royale (in which it was featured as Hotel Splendide) and has been cited as the inspiration for the Grand Budapest Hotel in the Wes Anderson movie of the same name.
Several questions during a brief conversation at the start of the event focused on Vachon’s priorities and the work of her Killer Films production company. “We are...
- 7/2/2023
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TaTaTu, the cryptocurrency-centric social entertainment platform run by entrepreneur Andrea Iervolino, has signed content licensing agreements for library titles from Lakeshore Entertainment, Kew Media Group, and Film4.
The deals will provide more than 50 films and TV shows to TaTaTu users, including the likes of Heathers, The Amateurs, Hotel Splendide, The War Zone and the Children of the Corn trilogy, and featuring talent such as Jeff Bridges, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Anthony Hopkins, Liam Neeson, Winona Ryder, Tommy Lee Jones and Kristen Stewart.
Financial terms of the agreements are not being disclosed. The deal significantly bolsters TaTaTu's offering by adding ...
The deals will provide more than 50 films and TV shows to TaTaTu users, including the likes of Heathers, The Amateurs, Hotel Splendide, The War Zone and the Children of the Corn trilogy, and featuring talent such as Jeff Bridges, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Anthony Hopkins, Liam Neeson, Winona Ryder, Tommy Lee Jones and Kristen Stewart.
Financial terms of the agreements are not being disclosed. The deal significantly bolsters TaTaTu's offering by adding ...
- 1/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
TaTaTu, the cryptocurrency-centric social entertainment platform run by entrepreneur Andrea Iervolino, has signed content licensing agreements for library titles from Lakeshore Entertainment, Kew Media Group, and Film4.
The deals will provide more than 50 films and TV shows to TaTaTu users, including the likes of Heathers, The Amateurs, Hotel Splendide, The War Zone and the Children of the Corn trilogy, and featuring talent such as Jeff Bridges, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Anthony Hopkins, Liam Neeson, Winona Ryder, Tommy Lee Jones and Kristen Stewart.
Financial terms of the agreements are not being disclosed. The deal significantly bolsters TaTaTu's offering by adding ...
The deals will provide more than 50 films and TV shows to TaTaTu users, including the likes of Heathers, The Amateurs, Hotel Splendide, The War Zone and the Children of the Corn trilogy, and featuring talent such as Jeff Bridges, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Anthony Hopkins, Liam Neeson, Winona Ryder, Tommy Lee Jones and Kristen Stewart.
Financial terms of the agreements are not being disclosed. The deal significantly bolsters TaTaTu's offering by adding ...
- 1/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Read More: Daniel Craig Says James Bond Is "Actually A Misogynist" "Layer Cake" (2004) The first feature from director Matthew Vaughn ("Kick-Ass," "Kingsman: The Secret Service"), "Layer Cake" is just as wild and action-packed as his more recent films, but it also has a a distinct emotional edge, due in large part to Craig’s performance as a nameless London cocaine dealer. Just before his early retirement, he is sent on two of his most dangerous assignments yet, which include kidnapping, killing and purchasing a ridiculous amount of hard drugs. In "Layer Cake," Craig shows off his trademark ability to be a rough-around-the-edges tough guy one moment and a vulnerable and authentic one the next without ever having us doubt his machismo. Craig’s cocaine dealer is a mess of violent fun and shows his beleaguered nature when the going gets too rough. "Hotel Splendide" (2000) Long before he was the first blonde.
- 11/6/2015
- by Ryan Anielski
- Indiewire
If you're looking for an example of how we, the citizens of the United States, wage war on some of our greatest writers, you need look no further than Ludwig Bemelmans and his out-of-print masterpiece My War with the United States. Yes, he's the same guy who created the Madeline series of children's books (and they are nice ones). But there's more to him, much more. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Bemelmans was that rare specimen, a total original, a writer of memoirs and stories so personal and so poignant, and so damn funny, they rival anything written by Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Chandler, and Thurber, all wrapped into one. And what's more, these things sold. They were big time.
And no wonder. They shine. They are as hard as diamonds, but bend like summer wheat. They bring tears of joy and of rage. If anything, the closest approximation...
And no wonder. They shine. They are as hard as diamonds, but bend like summer wheat. They bring tears of joy and of rage. If anything, the closest approximation...
- 4/19/2013
- by Ken Krimstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Independent UK film producers Black & Blue Films has teamed up with actress Lysette Anthony to produce supernatural thriller Whisper, the first picture from Anthony’s new company PerfectFeatures. Jonathan Sothcott, Black & Blue’s MD said today:
We are delighted to be partnering with Lysette and her business partner Rachel Chatterjee for Whisper. They have identified and secured a genuinely excellent project that we are looking forward to bringing to the screen and we’re thrilled that they chose Black and Blue to help them with their feature debut. Lysette has been one of my favourite actresses for a long time and I’m especially thrilled that she’s going to be working with us.
Lysette Anthony added:
To be honest Rachel and I are a little overwhelmed. To have Black & Blue green-light us with the ink barely dry on our latest Whisper draft is, well, the stuff of movies.
We are delighted to be partnering with Lysette and her business partner Rachel Chatterjee for Whisper. They have identified and secured a genuinely excellent project that we are looking forward to bringing to the screen and we’re thrilled that they chose Black and Blue to help them with their feature debut. Lysette has been one of my favourite actresses for a long time and I’m especially thrilled that she’s going to be working with us.
Lysette Anthony added:
To be honest Rachel and I are a little overwhelmed. To have Black & Blue green-light us with the ink barely dry on our latest Whisper draft is, well, the stuff of movies.
- 4/29/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
UK indie outfit Black & Blue Films has teamed up with actress Lysette Anthony to produce supernatural thriller Whisper , the first picture from her new company PerfectFeatures. The film, which goes into production in September 2011 on locations in the UK, explores the nature of grief and the terrifying consequences of experimenting with Electronic Voice Phenomena to talk to the dead. It will be helmed by Terence Gross, the award-winning director of Hotel Splendide . The cast will be announced shortly. Jonathan Sothcott, Black & Blue's MD said today in a press release: "We are delighted to be partnering with Lysette and her business partner Rachel Chatterjee for Whisper. They have identified and secured a genuinely excellent project that we are looking...
- 4/28/2011
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Source: FilmShaft - Black & Blue Films To Produce Supernatural Flick “Whisper” With Actress Lysette Anthony
Here's some good news on the British horror front with Black & Blue Films teaming up with actress Lysette Anthony's PerfectFeatures to produce a supernatural spinetingler based on the Evp recordings. You don't know what Evp means? Electronic Voice Phenomena!
Whisper, to be directed by Hotel Splendide helmer Terence Gross, centres on a story involving ultra-creepy Evp experiments which attempt to communicate with ghosts through recording their voices from beyond the grave!
Jonathan Sothcott, Black & Blue's MD said today:
"We are delighted to be partnering with Lysette and her business partner Rachel Chatterjee for Whisper. They have identified and secured a genuinely excellent project that we are looking forward to bringing to the screen and we're thrilled that they chose Black and Blue to help them with their feature debut. Lysette has been one of...
Here's some good news on the British horror front with Black & Blue Films teaming up with actress Lysette Anthony's PerfectFeatures to produce a supernatural spinetingler based on the Evp recordings. You don't know what Evp means? Electronic Voice Phenomena!
Whisper, to be directed by Hotel Splendide helmer Terence Gross, centres on a story involving ultra-creepy Evp experiments which attempt to communicate with ghosts through recording their voices from beyond the grave!
Jonathan Sothcott, Black & Blue's MD said today:
"We are delighted to be partnering with Lysette and her business partner Rachel Chatterjee for Whisper. They have identified and secured a genuinely excellent project that we are looking forward to bringing to the screen and we're thrilled that they chose Black and Blue to help them with their feature debut. Lysette has been one of...
- 4/28/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
There are certain things you may wanna rethink screwing around with. Namely, ways to contact the dead. We, like many don't believe that something made by Parker Bros. could be used as a conduit to the other side but we've seen enough movies to know not to test the boundaries. Then there's the Evp phenomenon. Yeah, that's about to go horribly awry in the latest UK fright fest, Whisper.
From the Press Release
Leading UK indie Black & Blue Films has teamed up with actress Lysette Anthony (pictured below) to co-produce supernatural thriller Whisper, the first picture from her new company PerfectFeatures.
Whisper, which goes into production in September 2011 on locations in the UK, explores the nature of grief and the terrifying consequences of experimenting with Electronic Voice Phenomena to talk to the dead.
It will be helmed by Terence Gross, the award-winning director of Hotel Splendide. The cast will be announced shortly.
From the Press Release
Leading UK indie Black & Blue Films has teamed up with actress Lysette Anthony (pictured below) to co-produce supernatural thriller Whisper, the first picture from her new company PerfectFeatures.
Whisper, which goes into production in September 2011 on locations in the UK, explores the nature of grief and the terrifying consequences of experimenting with Electronic Voice Phenomena to talk to the dead.
It will be helmed by Terence Gross, the award-winning director of Hotel Splendide. The cast will be announced shortly.
- 4/28/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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