Alice, Darlingfilms, and her fans thronging the entrance to Roy Thomson Hall were doing a lot of excited vocalizing. “I don’t think any of us were prepared for the Anna Kendrick power on a red carpet,” Nolan said in a recent video interview with Tapscott and Francis. But the women pushed each other out of the car and waded in.
, written by Francis, starring Heather Graham as a mother trying to forge new bonds after a death – landed them on “ones to watch” lists. The producers themselves are “driven by gut instinct,” Nolan says. “Our first human response to a project is the one we use to make a decision. All signs point to yes when something resonates deeply within us as women, when it stirs us to ask, ‘Am I like that?’”
About that marketplace. “When we started, people were reluctant to take us seriously,” Tapscott says. In the wake of #MeToo, “the market has and hasn’t changed. It hasn’t gotten easier to finance our films, but it’s gotten easier to persuade some people to take a risk.” They rhyme off a list of like-minded projects they can reference now:Anna Kendrick as Alice in Alice, Darling. This file was the first for Bade Nation starring a marquee name.