Please join us in wishing @annericeauthor, seen here with her son @christopher.rice.writer, a very happy birthday. #annerice #vampirechronicles #thevampirechronicles #lestat #interviewwiththevampire
TO READ THE FULL PRESS RELEASE VISIT ANNE’S STORY NEW YORK, NY, May 13, 2020 – AMC Networks @amc_tv today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Anne Rice’s major literary works, The Vampire Chronicles Series and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches Series, encompassing 18 titles, including such beloved and celebrated works as “Interview With The Vampire,” “The Vampire Lestat,” “The Queen of the Damned,” and “The Witching Hour.” AMC Networks will hold the comprehensive rights for this world renowned and globally coveted intellectual property to develop for its own television networks and streaming services under the AMC Studios umbrella, as well as external partner licensing, with Anne Rice and son Christopher Rice @christopher.rice.writer serving as executive producers on all series and films. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Together, The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair series have sold more than 150 million copies worldwide… “It’s always been my dream to see the worlds of my two biggest series united under a single roof so that filmmakers could explore the expansive and interconnected universe of my vampires and witches,” said Anne Rice. “That dream is now a reality, and the result is one of the most significant and thrilling deals of my long career.” “AMC Studios is responsible for creating some of the most iconic television series of the modern era and has, at times, single-handedly defined this era we call ‘peak TV,’” added Christopher Rice. “All the members of Team Anne, including my long-term producing partner, New York Times Bestselling novelist Eric Shaw Quinn @ericshawquinn are both thrilled and comforted to know that some of our most cherished kin, from the vampire Lestat and the witch Rowan Mayfair, to the paranormal investigators at the Order of the Talamasca and the powerful spirit Lasher, are now safely in the hands of these vastly accomplished innovators who possess both global reach and deep reservoirs of experience.” #annerice #thevampirechronicles #lestat #thevampirelestat #mayfairwitches #AMC
On this day in 1941, our beloved Anne Rice was born in New Orleans, the city her novels would one day infuse with magic and mystery and Gothic grandeur. Please join us in wishing her the happiest of birthdays as she completes her 79th year of life, and embarks on her 80th. The mother of Lestat, Louis and all the generations of the Mayfair Family sends you her gratitude from her home in California’s Coachella Valley, and adds her love for all those who are struggling during these challenging times for so many. (Posted by Anne’s Team) #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #annerice #lestat #thevampirechronicles #thevampirelestat #happybirthday
On this day in 1941, our beloved Anne Rice was born in New Orleans, the city her novels would one day infuse with magic and mystery and Gothic grandeur. Please join us in wishing her the happiest of birthdays as she completes her 79th year of life, and embarks on her 80th. The mother of Lestat, Louis and all the generations of the Mayfair Family sends you her gratitude from her home in California’s Coachella Valley, and adds her love for all those who are struggling during these challenging times for so many. (Posted by Anne’s Team) #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #annerice #lestat #thevampirechronicles #thevampirelestat #happybirthday
On this day in 1941, our beloved Anne Rice was born in New Orleans, the city her novels would one day infuse with magic and mystery and Gothic grandeur. Please join us in wishing her the happiest of birthdays as she completes her 79th year of life, and embarks on her 80th. The mother of Lestat, Louis and all the generations of the Mayfair Family sends you her gratitude from her home in California’s Coachella Valley, and adds her love for all those who are struggling during these challenging times for so many. (Posted by Anne’s Team) #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #annerice #lestat #thevampirechronicles #thevampirelestat #happybirthday
On this day in 1941, our beloved Anne Rice was born in New Orleans, the city her novels would one day infuse with magic and mystery and Gothic grandeur. Please join us in wishing her the happiest of birthdays as she completes her 79th year of life, and embarks on her 80th. The mother of Lestat, Louis and all the generations of the Mayfair Family sends you her gratitude from her home in California’s Coachella Valley, and adds her love for all those who are struggling during these challenging times for so many. (Posted by Anne’s Team) #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #annerice #lestat #thevampirechronicles #thevampirelestat #happybirthday
On this day in 1941, our beloved Anne Rice was born in New Orleans, the city her novels would one day infuse with magic and mystery and Gothic grandeur. Please join us in wishing her the happiest of birthdays as she completes her 79th year of life, and embarks on her 80th. The mother of Lestat, Louis and all the generations of the Mayfair Family sends you her gratitude from her home in California’s Coachella Valley, and adds her love for all those who are struggling during these challenging times for so many. (Posted by Anne’s Team) #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #annerice #lestat #thevampirechronicles #thevampirelestat #happybirthday
FROM THE VAULTS. Anne has often said her late husband Stan, seen here on the left, was the inspiration for Lestat’s physical appearance and his daring confidence. Does that mean Anne was the basis for Louis, who struggles mightily to determine his proper place in the universe? These two central characters have evolved and grown over the course of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES, but the seeds of their initial inspiration can be seen here, in this shot of a very young Anne and Stan, taken in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. (Posted by Anne’s Team) #lestat #louis #interviewwiththevampire #thevampirelestat #thevampirechronicles #annerice #goldengatepark #sanfrancisco
FROM THE VAULTS. Taken just moments after the 2013 Thriller Awards in New York City where Anne was named Thriller Master, a lifetime achievement award bestowed by the International Thriller Writers association. Originally, Anne had planned to give only a brief acceptance speech but the moment carried her away and she spoke movingly of how she never believed work as “transgressive” as hers who would find a wide audience. “I really am someone who has had all my dreams come true.” (Posted by Anne’s Team) #annerice #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #thevampirechronicles #lestat #thevampirelestat
FROM THE VAULTS. On top, circa 1985, Anne and her son @christopher.rice.writer, taken in Anne’s office in San Francisco’s Castro District where she wrote CRY TO HEAVEN and THE VAMPIRE LESTAT. On the bottom, Anne and Christopher many years later, circa 2013, atop the roof deck of the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood, CA. #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #thevampirelestat #thevampirechronicles #gaysofinstagram #westhollywood #sanfrancisco #castrodistrict🌈 #lestat #crytoheaven #losangeles
In less than twenty-four hours, we’ll be celebrating @annericeauthor ‘s 79th birthday. Here she is in high school when Lestat was but a glimmer in her eye…(Posted by Anne’s Team) #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #annerice #thevampirechronicles #lestat #louis #interviewwiththevampire #thequeenofthedamned
FROM THE VAULTS. Taken in the San Francisco Bay Area, sometime around the late 70’s or early 80’s, this photograph depicts Anne much as she looked at the beginning of her career as a published novelist. Many forget that after the publication of INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, it took Anne many years before she returned to the world of vampires. In the interim, she wrote two deeply researched historical novels, FEAST OF ALL SAINTS and CRY TO HEAVEN, published on either side of the birth of her son, @christopher.rice.writer while her husband Stan continued to work as a professor at San Francisco State University. The success of THE VAMPIRE LESTAT, however, would change their lives forever, allowing Stan to retire and the Rices to fulfill Anne’s lifelong dream of moving back to New Orleans, the city of her birth. (Posted by Anne’s Team.) #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #annerice #thevampirechronicles #sanfrancisco #sanfranciscostateuniversity #crytoheaven #feastofallsaints #neworleans
FROM THE VAULTS. San Francisco is as much a character in THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES as New Orleans or Paris, as evidenced by that opening shot of the Golden Gate Bridge in the film version of INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. Anne’s vaults are filled with photographs like this one. Here she is with her husband Stan in Golden Gate Park. Stan was the inspiration for the vampire Lestat and would become one of the Bay Area’s most celebrated poets before Anne was first published. He was always the first to read her work up until his death from a brain tumor in 2002. (Posted by Anne’s Team) #annerice #stanrice #thevampirechronicles #leatat #thevampirelestat #interviewwiththevampire
Have you experienced THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES ALPHABETTERY? Not only is it an encyclopedic guide to Anne’s vampire world, it features a detailed and highly personal introduction from Anne on the origins of the series. (Posted by Anne’s Team). #annerice #lestat #louis #thevampirelestat #interviewwiththevampire #thevampirechronicles #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram
FROM THE VAULTS. The family together, taken at their former home in San Francisco’s Castro District, circa 1986. Some of the dolls in the background would later be included in the collection at St. Elizabeth’s in New Orleans. Stan was still a tenured creative writing professor at San Francisco State University, Christopher was around nine years old. While Anne had recently published THE VAMPIRE LESTAT, the family was just shy of the enormous lifestyle changes that would be brought about by the publication of THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED and its popularity. (Posted by Anne’s Team) #annerice #thevampirechronicles #sanfrancisco #castrodistrict #bayarea #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #queenofthedamned
FROM THE VAULTS. It started in high school journalism class when a young man with a fair bit of acne got up from his desk and went to the back of the room to sit next to a new transfer student named Anne. “I don’t feel like sitting up front all there by myself,” he said, “I’d rather sit by you.” Struck by his confidence and intelligence, Anne could sense even then that she’d just met someone who would change the course of her life. A few years later, right after they both graduated, Anne and Stan Rice would be married. And they’d stay married until Stan passed away at age 62. (Posted by Anne’s Team) #authorsofinstagram #annerice #lestat #thevampirechronicles #stanrice #writersofinstagram #poetsofinstagram
From our archives, a photograph of @annericeauthor at age 18, standing between her father-in-law, Stanley Rice Sr., and her new husband, Stanley Rice Jr., taken in Dallas, Texas. A short while later, the newly married couple would move to the San Francisco Bay Area. #authorsofinstagram #annerice #stanrice #thevampirechronicles #vintage
FROM THE VAULTS. A college-aged @annericeauthor and Stan Rice. Young and in love and newly married and new to the San Francisco Bay Area and all of its bright promises. Seen here in #GoldenGatePark consorting with writers they admire. (Posted by Anne’s Team) #annerice #stanrice #goethe #schiller #sanfrancisco #bayarea #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram
Please be advised. Thank you, Team Anne.
Today we are grieving the loss of Anne’s wildly talented and endlessly kind cousin, cinematographer Allen Daviau, the man who stood behind the lens for films such as E.T. and EMPIRE OF THE SUN. Here’s a remember of Allen written Anne’s son @christopher.rice.writer: My cousin Allen Daviau died last night of COVID-19. While I might be biased, he was, in my opinion, one of the greatest cinematographers in modern Hollywood. He will probably be most remembered for his work on E.T. But I believe his masterpiece was Stephen Spielberg’s EMPIRE OF THE SUN. One of my fondest memories of Allen is when he came to visit us when I was a boy and explained for me in detail how he helped craft the scene in which Mrs. Victor, played by Miranda Richardson, peacefully passes a way at the exact moment Hiroshima is bombed on the distant horizon. It remains for me one of the most striking and subtle and haunting scenes in a film, and I am enormously proud my brilliant cousin helped bring it to life. Allen was a man who radiated kindness. I never knew him to raise his voice or lose his patience. For me, a child obsessed with the movies, he brought the magic of Hollywood to our home when I was young and he did so on a tide of gentle generosity. Together, he and my mother were unique members of their family who reached for big dreams with absolute courage. They were blessed to succeed, and the bond between them was always like that of a brother and sister. Goodbye, my sweet, brilliant cousin. You live on for us in the many frames of beautiful film you helped bring into the world. And your loss sadly makes this terrible pandemic feel all the more real.
Anne wishes everyone a wonderful holiday season. She spent this Christmas watching some of her favorite holiday films with her family, @christopher.rice.writer, @ericshawquinn and her beloved sister, Karen. Here’s a shot from one of her absolute favorites, #ItsAWonderfulLife. #merrychristmas #happyholidays #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #christmasfilms #christmasmovies #frankcapra #jimmystewart
FROM THE VAULTS. With thanks to Gary Swafford, beloved Person of the Page, for locating this 1993 interview of Anne, filmed in New Orleans for the publication of LASHER. To see the complete interview visit the You Tube channel for Brian Sherman. (Posted by Anne’s Team) #annerice #lasher #neworleans #1993 #90s #vampires #witches
FROM THE PAGES. Who is speaking in this quote from THE VAMPIRE ARMAND? Do you remember? (Posed by Anne’s Team) #annerice #authorofinstagram #writersofinstagram #thevampirechronicles #thevampirearmand
FROM THE VAULTS. Fifth place in State Rally for World History, a member of the Dramatic and Press Clubs. Even then, Anne O’Brien, now known as @annericeauthor, was well on her way. (Posted by Anne’s Team) #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #annerice #annericebooks
