Vamps (2012)

Alicia Silverstone Reunites With Her ‘Clueless’ Director for Vampires in the City Tale ‘Vamps’

Amy Heckerling has been developing the habit of making movies about once a generation that perfectly encapsulates the zeitgeist of current youth culture. In the early '80s, it was her film Fast Times at Ridgemont High that gave high school kids all over the world the idea to have pizzas delivered to their classrooms and made that one Cars song be forever linked with Phoebe Cates taking off her top. In the mid-'90s she brought us Clueless, which introduced the world to how cute Paul Rudd is when he sheepishly grins and finally asked a lost generation to pull up their pants and stop looking like trashballs. So now that it’s 2012 and Heckerling has written and directed a new film, you have to ask yourself if it’s going to be another one of those generation defining moments in movies, or if it’s just going to end up being another Look Who’s Talking? Her new project is called Vamps, and se (Read More)

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Acquisition News: Anchor Bay Picks up VAMPS and Focus World Nabs EXTRATERRESTRIAL

Two fairly promising genre films found homes today: Anchor Bay has acquired the rights to Amy Heckerling’s supernatural comedy Vamps, which stars Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter, with eyes on an October theatrical release. Focus World has picked up cult filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo’s alien invasion tale Extraterrestrial for a limited theatrical and VOD run beginning on June 15. Hit the jump for more on both films, including full press releases. Described as a “comedy-fantasy-romance”, Vamps sees Silverstone and Ritter playing two modern-day bloodsucking BFFs living in New York amidst suppressing their urge to slurp human plasma and navigating the dating scene, they find their friendship tested by love. Director Heckerling turned Silverstone into a pop-culture icon when the pair worked together on 1995’s Clueless. The initial marketing for this one seems to be playing up the “C (Read More)

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Krysten Ritter Talks LIFE HAPPENS, VAMPS, DON’T TRUST THE B IN APT. 23 and More

Life Happens, from director/co-writer Kat Coiro, is a comedy centered on three young women – Kim (Krysten Ritter), Deena (Kate Bosworth) and Laura (Rachel Bilson) - who all live under the same roof in Los Angeles.  When one of Kim’s one-night-stands results in an unexpected pregnancy, she turns to her girlfriends for help while she attempts to cope with single motherhood and jumping back into the dating scene amid the fear that having a child could put a quick end to any potential relationship.  The movie also stars Jason Biggs, Justin Kirk, Kristen Johnston and Geoff Stults. During this recent exclusive phone interview with Collider, the film’s star and co-writer Krysten Ritter talked about how this movie came together, the changes it went through in nearly four years of development, how happy she was with the final outcome of the film, and what she learned from this entire process (Read More)

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