American independent film production company
Killer Films Industry Founded 1995 Founder Headquarters ,United States
Website Killer Films
Killer Films is aNew York City -basedindependent film production company founded in 1995 by filmproducers Christine Vachon andPamela Koffler . The company has produced many acclaimed independent films over the past two decades includingFar From Heaven Academy Awards ),Boys Don't Cry One Hour Photo Kids Hedwig and the Angry Inch Happiness Velvet Goldmine Safe I Shot Andy Warhol Swoon I'm Not There Kill Your Darlings Still Alice Carol Todd Haynes ' five episodeHBO miniseries Mildred Pierce Emmys , aGolden Globe and aScreen Actors Guild Award .
In 2014, Killer Films merged withGlass Elevator Media to form Killer Content, Inc.[ 1]
Awards and recognition [ edit ] Killer Films productions have received multiple awards and nominations from theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences , theEmmy Awards , theHollywood Foreign Press Association and theIndependent Spirit Awards . On the occasion of Killer's 10th anniversary in 2005, the company was feted with a retrospective at theMuseum of Modern Art .[ 2]
Christine Vachon's first feature production,Poison Todd Haynes , won theGrand Jury Prize at the 1991Sundance Film Festival .Poison was one of the defining films of the emergingNew Queer Cinema .[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] Far From Heaven Todd Haynes collaboration, Vachon was honored by theNew York Film Critics Circle , and received the Producer of the Year Award from theNational Board of Review .[ 6]
Vachon produced theShowtime television adaptation of the public broadcasting radio program,This American Life San Francisco Film Society 's 54thSan Francisco International Film Festival .
Vachon has also written two books on her life and career,Shooting to Kill (1998),[ 7] A Killer Life (2006).[ 8]
One of Killer's most recent films,Kill Your Darlings John Krokidas , and starredDaniel Radcliffe andDane DeHaan , was selected for theSundance Film Festival and went on to be nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.[ 9] Magic Magic 2013 Sundance Film Festival to wide acclaim, Killer re-teamed with writer-directorSebastián Silva on his new feature,Nasty Baby [ 10]
In 2015, Julianne Moore won the Best Performance by an ActressOscar for her part in the 2014 Killer filmStill Alice Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, based on the novel of the same name, written byLisa Genova .[ 11] Todd Haynes onCarol The Price of Salt Patricia Highsmith . The film starsCate Blanchett andRooney Mara .[ 12]
In 2017, the company producedJanicza Bravo 'sLemon Brett Gelman andJudy Greer ;[ 13] Beatriz at Dinner Salma Hayek andChloë Sevigny ;[ 14] Dina directed by Dan Sickles & Antonio Santini, the latter of three winning the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the2017 Sundance Film Festival .[ 15] [ 16]
In May 2017, the company signed a two-year first look deal withAmazon Studios .[ 17]
Year Title Worldwide box office Notes 1991 Poison $787,280[ 18] 1992 Swoon — 1994 Go Fish $2.4 million[ 19] Postcards from America — 1995 Safe $512,245[ 20] Kids $7.4 million[ 21] Stonewall $692,400[ 22] 1996 Plain Pleasures — I Shot Andy Warhol $1.9 million[ 23] 1997 Bad Bosses Go to Hell — Short film Office Killer $76,054[ 24] 1998 Happiness $2.8 million[ 25] Velvet Goldmine $1.1 million[ 26] I'm Losing You $13,996[ 27] Dark Harbor — 1999 Boys Don't Cry $11.5 million[ 28] Won oneAcademy Award 2000 Crime + Punishment in Suburbia $26,394[ 29] 2001 Series 7: The Contenders $195,065[ 30] Women in Film — The Safety of Objects $319,299[ 31] Storytelling $2 million[ 32] Hedwig and the Angry Inch $3.6 million[ 33] The Grey Zone $517,872[ 34] Chelsea Walls $60,902[ 35] 2002 One Hour Photo $52 million[ 36] Far From Heaven $29 million[ 37] Nominated for fourAcademy Awards 2003 Party Monster $742,898[ 38] Camp $2.6 million[ 39] The Company $6.4 million[ 40] 2004 A Home at the End of the World $1.5 million[ 41] A Dirty Shame $1.9 million[ 42] 2005 The Notorious Bettie Page $1.8 million[ 43] 2006 Infamous $2.6 million[ 44] 2007 An American Crime $1.3 million[ 45] Savage Grace $1.4 million[ 46] I'm Not There $11.7 million[ 47] Nominated for oneAcademy Award Then She Found Me $8.4 million[ 48] 2008 Gigantic $165,888[ 49] 2009 Motherhood $726,354[ 50] Cracks $29,683[ 51] Cairo Time $2 million[ 52] 2010 Lulu at the Ace Hotel — Short film Loop Planes — Short film Virginia $12,728[ 53] Dirty Girl $55,125[ 54] 2011 Dragonslayer — 2012 Shut Up and Play the Hits $629,107[ 55] At Any Price $380,594[ 56] 2013 Magic Magic — Kill Your Darlings $2.1 million[ 57] Dealin' with Idiots $17,909[ 58] Deep Powder — The Last of Robin Hood $288,545[ 59] WildLike — Bluebird — 2014 Young Bodies Heal Quickly — Electric Slide — Still Alice $44 million[ 60] Won oneAcademy Award Mala Mala $10,761[ 61] 2015 Nasty Baby $80,828[ 62] Carol $40.3 million[ 63] Nominated for nineBritish Academy Film Awards Academy Awards Golden Globe Awards Big Sky — 2016 Woman in Deep — Short film Goat $23,020[ 64] Wiener-Dog $716,633[ 65] [ 66] White Girl $200,242[ 67] Frank & Lola $9,188[ 68] A Kind of Murder $89,899[ 69] London Town $1,126[ 70] 2017 Dina $96,524[ 71] Lemon $29,528[ 72] Where Is Kyra? $59,717[ 73] Beatriz at Dinner $7.4 million[ 74] Wonderstruck $3.3 million[ 75] My Days of Mercy $18,766[ 76] First Reformed $3.9 million[ 77] Nominated for oneAcademy Award 2018 Colette $13.8 million[ 78] Vox Lux $1.4 million[ 79] 2019 American Woman $245,416[ 80] Inside the Rain $8,140[ 81] Dark Waters $23.1 million[ 82] 2020 Zola $4.5-5 million[ 83] Shirley $305,805[ 84] [ 85] The World to Come $204,797[ 86] Brothers by Blood $104,744[ 87] 2021 The Velvet Underground — 2022 Under the Influence — Anything's Possible — 2023 Past Lives $42.5 million[ 88] Nominated for twoAcademy Awards She Came to Me $1.2 million[ 89] Bleeding Love $7,042[ 90] A Good Person $3.1 million[ 91] May December $5.3 million[ 92] Nominated for oneAcademy Award 2024 A Different Man $1.5 million[ 93] Nominated for oneAcademy Award 2025 Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) TBA Materialists $108 million[ 94] Late Fame TBA TBA The Last Day TBA Lone Wolf TBA
Vachon, Christine.Shooting to Kill: How an Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies that Matter ,Avon Books , 335 p., 1st ed., 1998,ISBN 0380798549 Vachon, Christine.A Killer Life: How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond ,Simon & Schuster , 279 p., 1st ed., 2006,ISBN 0743256301 ^ "Killer Films Merges With Glass Elevator Media to Form Killer Content" .The Hollywood Reporter . May 27, 2014. RetrievedSeptember 27, 2015 .^ "Swoon: Ten Years of Killer Films" .MoMA . RetrievedMarch 29, 2023 .^ "Killer Films' Co-Founders Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler on Lesbian Romance 'Carol' and Indie Resilience" .The Hollywood Reporter . September 25, 2015. RetrievedSeptember 27, 2015 .^ Levy, Emanuel (June 27, 2015)."Gay Pride 2015: Celebrating Todd Haynes' Poison" .EmmanuelLevy . Archived fromthe original on July 13, 2015. 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RetrievedNovember 20, 2016 . ^ Hipes, Patrick (August 17, 2016)."Brett Gelman-Starring Indie 'Lemon' Wraps; Janicza Bravo's Feature Directorial Debut" .Deadline Hollywood . RetrievedAugust 24, 2016 . ^ Jafaar, Ali (August 1, 2016)."Chloe Sevigny, Salma Hayek & Jay Duplass Join 'Beatriz At Dinner' .Deadline Hollywood . RetrievedAugust 24, 2016 . ^ Patten, Dominic (December 5, 2016)."Sundance 2017: Robert Redford, New Rashida Jones Netflix Series, 'Rebel In The Rye' & More On Premiere, Docu, Midnight & Kids Slates" .Deadline Hollywood . RetrievedFebruary 2, 2017 . ^ Billington, Alex (January 29, 2017)."Sundance 2017 Awards: 'Dina' & 'Chasing Coral' Are Big Doc Winners" .FirstShowing.net . RetrievedFebruary 2, 2017 . ^ Lang, Brent (May 2, 2017)."Amazon Signs First Look Deals with Bona Fide Productions, Killer Films, and Le Grisbi Productions (EXCLUSIVE)" .Variety . RetrievedMay 2, 2017 . ^ Poison Box Office Mojo ^ Go Fish Box Office Mojo ^ Safe Box Office Mojo ^ Kids Box Office Mojo ^ Stonewall Box Office Mojo ^ I Shot Andy Warhol Box Office Mojo ^ Office Killer Box Office Mojo ^ Happiness Box Office Mojo ^ Velvet Goldmine Box Office Mojo ^ I'm Losing You Box Office Mojo ^ Boys Don't Cry Box Office Mojo ^ "Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000)" .The Numbers ^ Series 7: The Contenders Box Office Mojo ^ The Safety of Objects Box Office Mojo ^ "Storytelling (2002)" .The Numbers ^ Hedwig and the Angry Inch Box Office Mojo ^ The Grey Zone Box Office Mojo ^ Chelsea Walls Box Office Mojo ^ One Hour Photo Box Office Mojo ^ Far From Heaven Box Office Mojo ^ Party Monster Box Office Mojo ^ Camp Box Office Mojo ^ The Company Box Office Mojo ^ A Home at the End of the World Box Office Mojo ^ A Dirty Shame Box Office Mojo ^ The Notorious Bettie Page Box Office Mojo ^ Infamous Box Office Mojo ^ An American Crime Box Office Mojo ^ Savage Grace Box Office Mojo ^ I'm Not There Box Office Mojo ^ Then She Found Me Box Office Mojo ^ Gigantic Box Office Mojo ^ Motherhood Box Office Mojo ^ Cracks Box Office Mojo ^ Cairo Time Box Office Mojo ^ Virginia Box Office Mojo ^ Dirty Girl Box Office Mojo ^ "Shut Up and Play the Hits (2012)" .The Numbers ^ At Any Price Box Office Mojo ^ "Kill Your Darlings (2013)" .The Numbers ^ Dealin' With Idiots Box Office Mojo ^ The Last of Robin Hood Box Office Mojo ^ Still Alice Box Office Mojo ^ Mala Mala Box Office Mojo ^ "Nasty Baby (2015)" .The Numbers ^ Carol Box Office Mojo ^ Goat Box Office Mojo ^ "Wiener-Dog (2016)" .The Numbers ^ "Wiener-Dog" .Box Office Mojo . RetrievedNovember 20, 2016 .^ White Girl Box Office Mojo ^ Frank and Lola Box Office Mojo ^ A Kind of Murder Box Office Mojo ^ London Town Box Office Mojo ^ Dina Box Office Mojo ^ Lemon Box Office Mojo ^ Where is Kyra? Box Office Mojo ^ Beatriz at Dinner Box Office Mojo ^ Wonderstruck Box Office Mojo ^ My Days of Mercy Box Office Mojo ^ First Reformed Box Office Mojo ^ Colette Box Office Mojo ^ Vox Lux Box Office Mojo ^ American Woman Box Office Mojo ^ "Inside the Rain (2019)" .The Numbers ^ "Dark Waters" .Box Office Mojo . RetrievedJanuary 21, 2021 .^ "Zola (2021)" .Box Office Mojo . RetrievedAugust 12, 2021 .^ "Shirley" .Box Office Mojo . RetrievedJanuary 21, 2021 .^ "Shirley" .The Numbers . RetrievedJanuary 21, 2021 .^ "The World to Come (2020)" .Box Office Mojo .IMDb . RetrievedJuly 30, 2021 .^ "Brothers by Blood (2021)" .The Numbers ^ "Past Lives (2023)" .Box Office Mojo .IMDb . RetrievedDecember 1, 2023 .^ "She Came to Me (2023)" .Box Office Mojo .IMDb . RetrievedDecember 1, 2023 .^ "Bleeding Love (2023)" .Box Office Mojo .IMDb . RetrievedApril 30, 2024 .^ "A Good Person (2023)" .The Numbers . RetrievedMarch 26, 2023 .^ "May December (2023)" .The Numbers . RetrievedDecember 1, 2023 .^ "A Different Man (2024)" .Box Office Mojo .IMDb . RetrievedJune 20, 2025 .^ "Materialists (2025)" .Box Office Mojo .IMDb . RetrievedAugust 25, 2025 .^ "Mrs. Harris" .Academy of Television Arts & Sciences .^ "This American Life" .Academy of Television Arts & Sciences .^ "Mildred Pierce" .Academy of Television Arts & Sciences .
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