Leena klammer biography of williams

William Brent Bell, already renowned for horror creep-outs like The Devil Inside and The Boy series, is about to be a whole lot busier. Fresh off the news earlier this week that Bell will be helming the upcoming folk horror flick Lord of Misrule comes news that he’s also signed on to direct Esther — a prequel to the 2009 horror hit Orphan.

Via Deadline, Esther finds Leena Klammer, the troubled woman at the center of Orphan’s psychologically gripping story, making “a brilliant escape from a Russian psychiatric facility” and heading to U.S. soil, where she impersonates “the missing daughter of a wealthy family” under her new name (you guessed it — Esther). But the new family’s mother is determined to “protect her family at any cost” as Esther’s new life in America begins unraveling with “an unexpected wrinkle.”

Casting and release date information for Esther hasn’t yet been announced. Starring Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, and Isabelle Fuhrman as Esther, Orphan launched the budding series more than a decade ago with Jaume Collet-Serra as director. The first film ended up hauling in a global $78.9 million box office, against a reported production budget of $20 million.

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Film by Jaume Collet-Serra

Orphan is a 2009 psychological horror film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and written by David Leslie Johnson from a story by Alex Mace. The film stars Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, CCH Pounder, and Jimmy Bennett. The plot centers on a couple who, after the death of their unborn child, adopt a psychopathic nine-year-old girl with a mysterious past.

The film is an international co-production between the United States, Canada, Germany and France. It was produced by Joel Silver and Susan Downey of Dark Castle Entertainment, and Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran of Appian Way Productions. Principal photography for the film took place in Canada, in the cities of St. Thomas, Toronto, Port Hope, and Montreal.

Orphan was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States and Canada on July 24, 2009. It was released in Germany on October 22, and in France on December 30. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $78.8 million worldwide. A prequel, titled Orphan: First Kill, was released in 2022, with Fuhrman reprising her role.

Plot

In Hamden, Connecticut, Kate and John Coleman's marriage is strained after the stillbirth of their third child, Jessica, whose loss is particularly hard on Kate, a recovering alcoholic. She and John then decide to adopt a 9-year-old Russian girl, Esther, from St. Mariana's Home for Girls, a local orphanage. Their 5-year-old deaf daughter, Max, embraces Esther, but their 12-year-old son, Daniel, is far less welcoming.

One night, Kate and John begin to have sex until Esther interrupts them. Kate becomes suspicious when Esther expresses far more knowledge of sex than expected of a child her age. Esther then exhibits hostile behavior in front of Max and Daniel, such as killing an injured pigeon and breaking the ankle of a bullying classmate. Sister Abigail, the head of the orphanage, visits the hou

Loving Highsmith
Dir. Eva Vitija
83 min.

It’s tempting to presume the character of an author is reflected in the tone of their work, particularly when the author encourages it. When told by an agent her characters were unlikeable, Highsmith is said to have responded “Perhaps it is because I don’t like anyone.” Highsmith novels like The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train pulse with horrific, remorselessly committed acts of violence, but it’s the cool, free-floating sense of misanthropy that make them so unsettling, a sense that extends beyond her often sociopathic characters. Highsmith was on record as being fond of cats and snails. People were another matter.

From the start Eva Vitija’s short but leisurely paced documentary Loving Highsmith announces itself as an attempt to correct that impression. “Like many other filmmakers I was originally drawn to Patricia Highsmith’s writing,” she notes in an early voiceover. “But when I started reading her unpublished diaries I fell in love with Highsmith herself.” The film then flits between testimonials from others who loved Highsmith (and knew her directly), from some surviving relatives in her native Texas to the women with whom Highsmith had affairs. Some of them anyway. As one notes, “She had a staggering amount of conquests.”

After an early section filled with details of Highsmith’s early life including her difficult relationship with a hateful-sounding mother and experiences in the underground world of Manhattan gay bars, Vitija’s film becomes at times frustratingly vague about the timeline of Highsmith’s life built around interviews, shots of places Highsmith lived in or visited, and clips from the films adapted from her work. Once it’s covered major early novels like Strangers and The Price of Salt — Highsmith’s pseudonomsly published  story of a lesbian romance  and also the basis of Todd Haynes’ Carol — it’s not clear what she wrote or when, nor when affairs with

2022 film by William Brent Bell

Orphan: First Kill is a 2022 American psychological horror film directed by William Brent Bell and written by David Coggeshall, based on a story by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Alex Mace. A prequel to Orphan (2009), it stars Isabelle Fuhrman reprising her role as the titular character, with Rossif Sutherland, Hiro Kanagawa, Matthew Finlan, and Julia Stiles.

With the working title of Esther, the project was announced in February 2020. The official title was revealed in November that same year, with Fuhrman reprising her role as Esther. Filming took place in Winnipeg, Canada, from November to December 2020.

Orphan: First Kill premiered first in other territories starting in the Philippines on July 27, 2022, and was released in the United States on August 19 by Paramount Players in select theatres, digital, and streaming via Paramount+. The film grossed $45 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics.

Plot

In January 2007, Leena Klammer, a 31-year-old Estonian psychiatric patient with the appearance of a 10-year-old, escapes the Saarne Institute by seducing and killing a guard, then hiding in the car of art therapist Anna. After killing Anna in her home, Leena looks up missing American girls and finds that she looks like Esther Albright, a girl from a rich family who went missing in 2003. Leena introduces herself as "Esther" to a Russian police officer and claims her parents are in the United States.

In Darien, Connecticut, artist Allen Albright and his wife Tricia are informed by Detective Donnan that their daughter has been found. Tricia travels to Moscow and brings "Esther" home. There, Leena becomes infatuated with Allen and tries to separate him from Tricia.

While Tricia and Allen are away, Donnan arrives at the house and acquires Leena's fingerprints. When Donnan finds that the fingerprints do not match Esther's, Leena, who has been tailing him, stabs him with a