On Sept. 27, film producer Ted Hope was on the phone with distributor New Line Pictures talking about the Academy Awards campaign for American Splendor, which he had produced. “They said, ‘Well, it’s going to be much different this year,’” Mr. Hope recalled in a nasally, New England–inflected accent, from his Tribeca office. “Because they”–the Read More
On Sept. 27, film producer Ted Hope was on the phone with distributor New Line Pictures talking about the Academy Awards campaign for American Splendor , which he had produced. “They said, ‘Well, it’s going to be much different this year,’” Mr. Hope recalled in a nasally, New England–inflected accent, from his Tribeca office. “Because Read More
Killer Films co-founder Christine Vachon shifted impatiently in her seat at the front of a crowded Columbia University screening room. It was a little after 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 1. The class of graduate film students had just seen an advance screening of Far from Heaven, the much-talked-about film that Todd ( Poison ) Read More
