James Franco Reviews, Interviews & More
Now that man-of-many-talents James Franco’s Cormac McCarthy adaptation Child of God is safely in post-production, it seems he’s about to start work on another literary classic, As I Lay Dying. Franco has already lined up Danny McBride, Tim Blake Nelson, Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus), Jim Parrack (True Blood), and Ahna O’Reilly...
Hey, if you’re wanting what appears to be a shallow and superficial film about the shallow and superficial world of modern pornography, have we got the movie for you—About Cherry. Directed by Stephen Elliott and scripted by former porn star Lorelei Lee, the film’s trailer plays like a sterile take on the Boogie...
Disney pulled out all the stops at their Comic-Con panel earlier today, showing off some of the best that they have to offer in the next year. One of those films happens to be Sam Raimi's upcoming fantasy film Oz, The Great and Powerful.
This week, Casey Affleck landed his next project. He'll be directing and writing the story of baseball player Josh Hamilton. The first photo of James Franco as Oz: The Great And Powerful hit the web. And actor Gary Oldman went on Jimmy Kimmel to politely ask famous athletes to stop acting. All that and more below.
Though The Odd Life of Timothy Green and the nature film Chimpanzee had trailers shown (and Jennifer Garner talked briefly about Green), the majority of attention for Disney's live Actions films at D23 went to The Muppets and John Carter....
Curious as to whether or not you should plunk down your hard-earned dollars on a movie about James Franco dealing with some peskily sentient and maybe sorta kinda revolutionary apes that might just one day really piss off Charlton Heston? Well, if so, dig our round up of what the critics thought of Rise of the Planet of the Apes below—we’ve laid out a...
One of the most exciting-looking movies of the summer is Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Though 20th Century Fox hasn't always treated the franchise with respect - either in the original run or in it's re-imagined Tim Burton fiasco - but the story is durable because man's relationship to nature and meddling scientists are an evergreen subject. Now there's a new teaser...
Is 2011 the summer of the good prequel? With X-Men: First Class hitting theaters and earning mostly good reviews, it would be great to see that trend continue with Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The film, which stars James Franco, Brian Cox, and Frieda Pinto, hits theaters in August, but the latest trailer seems to show much of that uprising...
You can say this for the Rise of the Planet of the Apes trailer , it bears no resemblance to the last attempt to relaunch the Planet of the Apes franchise. This one suggests no connection to the other films in a good way. Rupert Wyatt's film is a revamp of the fourth film Conquest of the Planet of the Apes without the time...
Anne Hathaway appeared yesterday on The Today Show and discussed the brutally bad reviews that she and James Franco received as hosts of the worst Oscars ever in the whole world ever times infinity plus one: “They said we were the worst show ever,” the actress told host Matt Lauer. “I think that qualifies as tough.”
Though the title suggests a stoner comedy along the lines of The Pineapple Express, Your Highness is more of a goof on the fantasy and Sword and Sorcery movies that took over cinema in the early 1980's, films that ranged from the studio financed Conan the Barbarian and Clash of...
James Franco and Danny McBride play unlikely brothers in David Gordon Green’s Your Highness -, but they play well off each other. McBride finally has a straight man, and Franco gives the character the gravitas to the film’s silliness. It’s a good working relationship– though the two worked together before in Green’s The Pineapple Express. In Your...
After massively bombing at the Oscars this year, James Franco is returning to that prolonged performance art project that is ‘James Franco’ by following in the footsteps of Winter’s Bone director Debra Granik and Zoolander co-screenwriter John Hamburg—he’s teaching a third-year graduate class on...
Sam Raimi's Oz, The Great and Powerful is casting up and Mila Kunis has now signed on, according to Variety. She'll be joining James Franco, who's starring as the titular wizard. The film is a prequel to the classic L. Frank Baum novel and film The Wizard of Oz, and Kunis will play Theodora, a young witch who's rebuffed by Oz...
As we get closer to the the April 8 release of Your Highness, we're seeing the marketing for the film kick in to high gear (no pun intended). Recently we've seen new posters, a tie-in prequel comic book, and screenings and junkets start shortly for the film. And to keep interest up, Universal has released a new Red Band Trailer for the film, which...
Your Highness, a sword-and-sorcery pot comedy starring Danny McBride, James Franco, Academy award winner Natalie Portman, and Zooey Deschanel opens April 8, and it feels like the advertising campaign for the David Gordon Green film should start kicking in to gear here any second. Though we've seen a hilarious red band trailer, the film has been relatively quiet since...
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards were hard to watch. Not because of their predictable winners but because of their horrible hosts. Last year we had some issues with Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin's one-two punch but this year has them beat. When we first heard that James Franco and Anne Hathaway were going to host the show we were worried. Very worried. And with good reason. They're not...
It's official. James "Man of the Hour" Franco has replaced Robert Downey Jr. as Oz, The Great and Powerful. The film is the latest feature from director Sam Raimi and Walt Disney Pictures. This marks the first tentpole Raimi has tackled since the demise of his Spider-Man 4 sequel with Sony. Deadline confirmed that Franco will play the title...
Twentieth Century Fox has released the first official promo pic of James Franco in their long awaited prequel/sequel Rise of the Apes. The actor seems to be everywhere these days and he's showing no signs of stopping. His latest gig will be this Sunday when he hosts the Academy Awards, followed by the release of several high profile films, including this one, and do...
Do you remember back in November when there were rumors about Zac Efron starring in the Akira movie? Well, now there's news that another actor has dibs on a primary role in the film. According to a report from JustJared, Oscar nominee James Franco is in talks to star. For some of you this could be considered a good and a bad thing. It's great because the film...
