James Franco and Amber Heard are at it again.
Seven years after having appeared together in Pineapple Express, the two have reunited for The Adderall Diaries, a film adaptation of Stephen Elliott’s best-selling memoir of the same name.
“James and Amber have great chemistry,” the movie’s director Pamela Romanowsky told us Thursday at the Adderall premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. “As a director, it’s really exciting to see two people who haven’t spent much time together come into a room to do a scene and find this connection and electricity between them. It was really exciting to watch.”
Franco stars as in the movie as writer with many issues, including substance abuse problems. Heard plays his New York Times crime reporter love interest.
The cast also includes Ed Harris, Christian Slater, Cynthia Nixon and Wilmer Valderrama.
“James and I met at grad school we both did the [New York University] film program and had been friends and I worked on a short film with him. We really loved working together,” Romanowsky said. “He had optioned Adderall Diaries a few years before and offered it to me to write and direct. It was already a book that I had read and loved so it felt like a perfect fit so we embarked on it from there. That was about three years ago.”
Heard said she was attracted to the project because they didn’t try to sugarcoat it to make it appeal to a larger and more mainstream audience. “You could call it dark, but the story to is about memory, it’s about life, it’s about relationships,” Heard said. “It didn’t seek to taper that to make it more palatable.”
If you’re wondering if Franco has had any real-life experience with Adderall, he made it perfectly clear he doesn’t. “I don’t. I don’t,” he said. “I can’t say that I do.”
We are very happy to hear that.
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I have add photo from the World premiere of ‘The Adderall Diaries’ during the Tribeca Film Festival to the gallery.
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James Franco often portrays characters who love marijuana and other drugs, but that doesn’t mean he has a lot of personal experience with illicit substances. When the star showed up to the world premiere of “The Adderall Diaries ” at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City Thursday, he explained that he didn’t know enough about the drug to comment on whether they were overprescribed in America. In fact, he’s never even tried it. “I’ve never taken them,” he said.
Adderall is prescribed to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But in recent years, the amount of people given the drug has tripled, the Business Insider wrote. The majority of people who take it do not consider it to be a “serious drug” and instead use it as “a study tool.” The stimulant can be addictive and has dangerous side effects like heart attacks and even sudden deaths.
“The Adderall Diaries,” based on Stephen Elliott’s best-selling novel, is about a man who suffers from writers block and strained relationships. To deal with his lack of inspiration, he becomes obsessed with a high-profile murder case while simultaneously suffering from an escalating drug problem.The movie has two main themes: One is how an artist looks at himself through his work, and the other deals with memory “and how we shape our visions ourselves,” Franco, 36, explained. “ It’s about the stories we tell ourselves about our own lives and how that shapes who we are.”
Eventually, both themes coincide. “As he’s trying to write, he’s also trying to figure out his life and both things become some of the same,” the actor said.
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ery week in the Culture List, Vanity Fair editors present a ruthlessly curated selection of parties, art openings, exhibits, and mustn’t-miss events. This week includes the Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Film Festival, art from one half of a Parisian powerhouse couple, and two major Broadway openings.
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Almost one year after Hulu renewed the supernatural/stoner comedy, Deadbeat season 2 will hit the streaming service on April 20.
The show follows Kevin Pacalioglu (Tyler Labine) as a medium who solves dead people’s lingering worldly problems so they can rest in peace. Kevin gets some help from his best friend and drug dealer, Roofie, and this season, funnymen like Danny DeVito, James Franco, Fred Armisen, Gilbert Gottfried, and Jim Norton will guest star on the series.
In this exclusive first look at Franco’s appearance, the actor/director/producer joins the show as robe-clad ghost Johnny Penis, an infamous flasher.
Deadbeat was created by Brett Konner and Cody Heller, and Dan Lagana serves as the series’ showrunner. Hulu Plus subscribers can stream all 13 episodes of the show’s second season on Monday
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LOS ANGELES, April 9 (UPI) — The cast of Freaks and Geeks will be honored at the 2015 TV Land Awards, the cable television network announced.
Terry Crews is to host the event at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. The ceremony will be taped Saturday and will air April 18 on TV Land with simulcasts on Nickelodeon and NickMom.“Freaks and Geeks, which will receive the 15th Anniversary Award, is a cult comedy series that aired on NBC for only one season from 1999-2000, yet continues to find new fans every year,” a news release said. “Starring actors who have gone on to A-list stardom, Freaks and Geeks revolves around Lindsay Weir, her brother Sam, and their two entirely different groups of friends: the ‘freaks’ — druggies and delinquents — and the ‘geeks’ — the socially awkward who are just trying to get through high school.”
Confirmed to attend the TV Land reunion are series creator Paul Feig and executive producer Judd Apatow, along with stars Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Linda Cardellini, Busy Philipps, Samm Levine, Martin Starr, David Gruber Allen and Steve Bannos. Missing from the list is the constantly working James Franco.
The TV Land Awards ceremony will also feature a performance by Grammy- and Oscar-winning musician and actress Jennifer Hudson. She is to sing “Whatever Makes You Happy” from the soundtrack to the TV series Empire.
This year’s awards will honor as well the casts and creative teams behind the beloved shows Parenthood, The Wonder Years and Ally McBeal.
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This is meant to be a compliment: James Franco, a man of a million faces and artistic side projects, was the perfect choice to play Christian Longo , the slippery, impossible-to-read killer at the center of the upcoming docudrama True Story.
The remarkable thing is that he never met Longo despite having the opportunity to do so, as he tells Yahoo Movies in the video above.
A true two-hander of a film that first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, True Story features Franco going up against his old pal Jonah Hill, who plays the disgraced journalist Michael Finkel. In a stranger-than-fiction tale based on actual events, Longo, who is accused of murdering his wife and two children, uses Finkel’s name as an alias while hiding out in Mexico. Finkel — out of work after being caught fabricating parts of a cover story for The New York Times Magazine — flies up to Oregon where Longo is being held to interview the alleged killer as he awaits and then eventually stands trial.
Finkel wrote a book about the experience and worked closely with Hill; he even stays in contact with Longo, having formed an unconventional bond with him. But while doing his own research for the film, Franco wanted no part of the man who was later convicted of murder.
“This is probably my seventh character that is based on a real person, and sometimes I found that you need to really reference a person and sometimes you go by the script,” Franco tells Yahoo Movies. “He’s sort of already getting enough attention as it is, and he seems like somebody who might thrive on attention, and I didn’t want to give him any more.”
True Story hits theaters on April 17.
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I have add some photoshoot that I was missing to the gallery.
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James Franco has come on board to direct and produce William Gay’s “The Long Home,” a coming-of-age story set in rural Tennessee in the 1940s.
Franco and Vince Jolivette will produce through their Rabbit Bandini Productions.
The story centers on a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years before to a human evil and is forced to make difficult moral choices to face up to that evil. “The Long Home” was Gay’s debut novel and won the 1999 James A. Michener Memorial Prize.
Franco is currently producing, directing and starring in “In Dubious Battle,” based on John Steinbeck’s 1936 novel about labor conflict. The cast includes Franco, Selena Gomez, Vincent D’Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston, Nat Wolff, John Savage and Sam Shepard.
Franco has also directed two adaptions of William Faulkner novels set in the rural South through Rabbit Bandini — 2014’s “The Sound and the Fury,” which played at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals, and 2013’s “As I Lay Dying.”
He was last seen in Sony’s “The Interview,” which he exec produced.
The deal for “The Long Home” was made by Geoff Sanford at RWSG Literary Agency and Pat Walsh at Dzanc Books. The news was first reported by Publishers Weekly
