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August 31, 2016

James Franco, Jack Reynor, Zoe Kravitz to Star in Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Kin’

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James Franco, Jack Reynor, Zoe Kravitz and Dennis Quaid will star in the sci-fi action-thriller Kin.

Jonathan and Josh Baker will direct the film based on their own short film, Bag Man. Daniel Casey penned the script, which follows a recently released ex-con (Reynor) and his adopted younger brother who are forced to go on the run. Chased by a vengeful criminal (Franco), the feds and a cadre of otherworldly soldiers, their only protection is a found weapon of mysterious ancestry.

Quaid will play the brothers’ father and Kravitz joins the brothers’ journey as a trusted ally.

Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen of 21 Laps Entertainment will produce along with Jeff Arkuss, David Gross and Jesse Shapira of No Trace Camping. The film is slated to begin shooting Oct. 24.

Sources say that WME and Good Universe are planning on shopping the project at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival and will meet with the studios in advance of the fest’s Sept. 8 kickoff.

Franco’s upcoming work includes The Disaster Artist, which he stars in and directed, and comedy Why Him? He is repped by CAA, Untitled and Sloane, Offer.

Reynor was most recently seen in Sing Street and appears in the upcoming Free Fire, which will play at TIFF. He is repped by WME, MacFarlane Chard and Sloane, Offer.

Kravitz recently joined Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them; her other upcoming projects include Rock That Body and HBO series Big Little Lies with Shailene Woodley. She is repped by Paradigm and Untitled.

Quaid will next be seen in A Dog’s Purpose and appears on Pivot TV series Fortitude. He is repped by WME and Hansen, Jacobson.

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August 30, 2016

‘In Dubious Battle’ Trailer: James Franco Takes On John Steinbeck – Venice

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Multi-hyphenate James Franco, no stranger to classic American literature, has taken his first directorial shot at moving John Steinbeck to the screen with an adaptation of In Dubious Battle. Originally published in 1936, the novel is the lesser-known title in Steinbeck’s unofficial Dustbowl Trilogy — which also includes Of Mice And Men and The Grapes Of Wrath — but has been hailed as among his strongest works. It’s a study of man’s struggle against himself set during a Great Depression labor dispute whose themes are still relevant today.

Multi-hyphenate James Franco, no stranger to classic American literature, has taken his first directorial shot at moving John Steinbeck to the screen with an adaptation of In Dubious Battle. Originally published in 1936, the novel is the lesser-known title in Steinbeck’s unofficial Dustbowl Trilogy — which also includes Of Mice And Men and The Grapes Of Wrath — but has been hailed as among his strongest works. It’s a study of man’s struggle against himself set during a Great Depression labor dispute whose themes are still relevant today.

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August 24, 2016

James Franco Developing Crime Movies ‘Smonk,’ ‘Poachers,’ ‘Hell at the Breech

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James Franco is developing three movies based on novels by crime fiction writer Tom Franklin — “Smonk,” “Poachers,” and “Hell at the Breech,” Variety has learned exclusively.

Franco and partner Vince Jolivette are producing through their Rabbit Bandini Productions, which recently obtained the movie rights in a deal put in place by Joel Gotler of Intellectual Property Group on behalf of Nat Sobel of Sobel Weber Associates. The company has tapped screenwriters for each project.

“We plan on shooting all three of them in the next one to three years,” Jolivette told Variety. “There are no plans at this point for James to act or direct, just for us to produce. We feel the material is rich enough to attract A-level talent.”

Playwright David Van Asselt is working on a script for “Poachers” and Franklin will write the “Smonk” script. Ian Olds and Paul Felton are penning the adaptation of “Hell at the Breech.”

“We’re labeling these as our gritty Southern Gothic series of films,” Jolivette said.

“Poachers,” Franklin’s first book, is a collection of short stories. The title story, which won the Edgar Award for best mystery short story, focuses on three wild boys confronting a mythic game warden as mysterious and deadly as the river they haunt.

“Smonk” is set in 1911 in Old Texas, Ala., where every Saturday night for a year, E.O. Smonk has been destroying property, killing livestock, seducing women, and beating men.

“Hell at the Breech” takes place in 1897. When an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered in a rural area of Alabama, outraged friends — mostly poor cotton farmers — form a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech, to punish the townspeople they believe responsible.

Franco has starred in and Jolivette has produced two adaptations of William Faulkner novels about the rural South in the early 20th Century — “The Sound and the Fury,” which premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, and “As I Lay Dying,” which debuted at the 2014 Venice Film Festival.

Franco has been producing, co-directing, and co-starring in the post-apocalyptic thriller “Future World” with Milla Jovovich, Suki Waterhouse, Snoop Dogg, and Method Man. Franco’s recently completed projects include “The Adderall Diaries,” “I Am Michael,” “In Dubious Battle,” “The Long Hour,” “Palo Alto,” and “The Masterpiece.”

Franco also directed and co-produced “The Masterpiece,” which centers on the making of Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 cult film “The Room.” Rabbit Bandini, Point Grey, and Good Universe are producing the New Line film. Franco plays Wiseau. His brother Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Josh Hutcherson, Ari Graynor, Jackie Weaver, and Bryan Cranston also star.

James Franco is also starring with Cranston in Fox’s upcoming comedy “Why Him?,” which opens on Dec. 25.

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August 19, 2016

First Zeroville Trailer Sees James Franco And Seth Rogen Bound For Hollywood

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James Franco and Seth Rogen, the creative duo behind such cult comedy hits as The Interview and This is the End, are Hollywood bound in the first trailer for Zeroville, a biting satirical period romp hailing from Franco himself.
It’s pitched as his most ambitious directorial effort to date, and after clocking eyes on the extensive first trailer, we’re inclined to believe those claims. Featuring a host of regular faces in Jacki Weaver, Megan Fox, Craig Robinson, Will Ferrell and Danny McBride, Zeroville is set against the Tinsel Town of ’69 where Ike “Vikar” Jerome stars out on a journey that offers up tragedy and discovery in equal measure.
Placing a laser focus on celebrity culture and all things Hollywood, Seth Rogen is on board as a character known as Viking Man – “gatekeeper to all the right parties, a cigar-chomping surf hippie; Vikar’s eccentric Hollywood guide” – while the casting sheet reveals the larger-than-life personalities of Rondell, (Will Ferrell, Dotty (Jacki Weaver), Financier (Danny McBride) and femme fatale Soledad (Megan Fox). There’s also a Wim Wenders cameo buried in today’s first-look.

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August 17, 2016

Pedro Almodovar, James Franco films flesh out TIFF 2016 lineups

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A Pedro Almodovar film based on Alice Munro’s stories, James Franco’s adaptation of a John Steinbeck novel and movies starring Richard Gere, Christian Bale and Naomi Watts are the latest additions to the 2016 TIFF lineup.

The Toronto International Film Festival unleashed a fresh wave of movies Tuesday, including new galas and special presentations, movies from master auteurs, bold offerings for its City to City spotlight, contemporary world cinema titles and features slated for the experimental wavelength program.

A pair of galas joins the high-profile slate: the star-studded tale Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer, starring Gere, and historical wartime drama The Promise, set against the final days of the Ottoman Empire and featuring Bale and Oscar Isaac.

Walter Hill’s assassin story (Re)Assignment, a Canadian production, is among the films added to the special presentations, along with Brain on Fire, Gerard Barrett’s Irish-Canadian film about a woman’s battle against a sudden and mysterious neurological illness, lifesaving diagnosis and recovery.

Other special presentations include:

Quebec director Phillip Falardeau’s The Bleeder, about the real-life boxer who inspired the Rocky films and starring Watts, Liev Schreiber and Elisabeth Moss.
I, Daniel Blake, British filmmaker Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or-winning contemporary drama about an aged carpenter unable to work after a heart attack, but blocked from medical benefits due to bureaucracy.
In Dubious Battle, the labour conflict-migrant worker tale directed and starring Franco alongside Vincent D’Onofrio, Selena Gomez, Ed Harris, Sam Shepard, Robert Duvall and Bryan Cranston.
Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey, a visual effects-laden exploration of the universe and natural phenomena narrated by Cate Blanchett.
Burn Your Maps, featuring young Canadian actor Jacob Tremblay (Room) as a young boy convinced he is actually a Mongolian goat herder.

Acclaimed Spanish director Almodovar’s Julieta, part of the Masters lineup, adapts three of Canadian Nobel Prize-winner Munro’s short stories into a “time tripping tale” about a mother-daughter relationship.

Other auteurs bringing films to TIFF this fall include Wim Wenders (The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez), Kelly Reichardt (Certain Women), Cristian Mungiu (Graduation), Brillante Ma Mendoza (Ma’ Rosa), Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper), Terence Davies (A Quiet Passion) and Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne (The Unknown Girl).

Lagos takes the spotlight for the festival’s City to City program this year, with eight “Nollywood” titles to screen and up-and-coming actors OC Ukeje and Somkele Iyamah Idhalama — rising stars from Nigeria’s largest city — invited to participate in special events, seminars and workshops.

TIFF 2016 runs Sept. 8-18.

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August 06, 2016

[Gallery Update] Special Screening of Columbia Pictures Sausage Party

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Yesterday was the Special Screening of Columbia Pictures Sausage Party I have add over 30 photos from event to the gallery

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August 04, 2016

(VIDEO) Seth Rogen, James Franco ‘Today’ Show: Watch ‘Sausage Party’ Interview

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Seth Rogen and James Franco appeared on Thursday’s “Today” show to discuss their new R-rated animated movie Sausage Party