Chris Hanley is an American film producer best known for producing independent films such as Buffalo 66, The Virgin Suicides, American Psycho, Spun, Spring Breakers, and London Fields.
Chris Hanley was raised in Montclair, New Jersey, demonstrating an interest in art and photography. Hanley studied literature and philosophy at Amherst College in Western Massachusetts. Additionally, he studied at Columbia University and Oxford. Hanley met his wife Roberta at the affiliated Hampshire College's electronic music lab. Hanley has broad interests and reads widely, on topics including the philosophy of science and mathematics, cybernetics, physics, neuroscience, and neurophysiology.
Hanley started his career in the music business as the founder of Intergalactic Music, Inc., a company that supplied vintage Fender and Gibson guitars to musicians such as John McLaughlin, Heart, and John Entwistle of The Who. In the early 1980s, Intergalactic opened a recording studio in New York City, and recorded artists such as Africa Bambatta, Soul Sonic Force, Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam, The Ramones, and Blondie minus Debbie Harry.