If you told me there was a plan in place to make four Beatles biopics — one each about John, Paul, George, and Ringo — and that they were going to be directed by Richard Linklater, I’d be suffused with curiosity and excitement. If you told me that those same four movies were going to …
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/A24/Netflix/GettyWhen actors Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid read the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards live in January, thousands of cinephiles and creators waited with bated breath to hear their names called. And among those names was one of Hollywood’s most vaunted: Christine Vachon, co-founder of the influential independent studio Killer Films. Vachon has made a name for herself over the last 30 years as a producer, helping steer filmm