{"id":416,"date":"2015-09-12T23:31:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T23:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesfranconetwork.net\/?p=416"},"modified":"2015-09-12T23:31:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T23:31:39","slug":"ames-francos-zeroville-bought-by-alchemy-for-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"James Franco\u2019s \u2018Zeroville\u2019 Bought by Alchemy for North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Alchemy has acquired North American distribution rights to James Franco\u2019s Hollywood-set dramedy \u201cZeroville\u201d for a 2016 release.<\/p>\n<p>The film, based on the  2007 novel of the same name by Steve Erickson, stars Franco, Seth Rogen, Jacki Weaver, Megan Fox, Craig Robinson, Joey King, Dave Franco and Danny McBride. Filming began last October in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Franco directs from a screenplay by Paul Felten and Ian Olds. The story centers on a young man obsessed with cinema who arrives in Hollywood in 1969 and climbs the ranks of Hollywood\u2019s \u201970s movie elite while finding true love to be a dangerous romance.<\/p>\n<p>Producers are James Franco and Vince Jolivette via their Rabbit Bandini Productions banner, along with Caroline Aragon and Michael Mendelsohn via his Patriot Pictures banner.<\/p>\n<p>Alchemy made the announcement at the Toronto Film Festival, where it has four titles screening \u2014 Nanni Moretti\u2019s comedic drama \u201cMia Madre\u201d; Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019 satire \u201cThe Lobster,\u201d starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz; Gaspar No\u00e9\u2019s 3D sexual melodrama \u201cLove\u201d and Lucile Hadzihalilovic\u2019s French horror film \u201cEvolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alchemys\u2019 Jeff Deutchman negotiated the deal with Michael Mendelsohn, Patriot\u2019s CEO. Embankment is the international sales agent for the film.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/film\/news\/toronto-james-francos-zeroville-bought-by-alchemy-for-north-america-1201591880\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alchemy has acquired North American distribution rights to James Franco\u2019s Hollywood-set dramedy \u201cZeroville\u201d for a 2016 release. The film, based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Steve Erickson, stars Franco, Seth Rogen, Jacki Weaver, Megan Fox, Craig Robinson, Joey King, Dave Franco and Danny McBride. Filming began last October in Los Angeles. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}