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Palo Alto is the debut of a surprising and powerful new literary voice. Written with an immediate sense of place--claustrophobic and ominous--James Franco's collection traces the lives of an extended group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism.

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A B-roll video for the film has been released along with an on-set interview with James.

Indian actress Freida Pinto has revealed that she was surprised by actor James Franco’s “unique” acting style.

Pinto, 26, who stars alongside Franco, 33, on ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’, said she was at first taken aback by his methods, but later learned a lot from him.

“He’s got his own unique and distinctive style of acting. It’s not conventional at all,” Contactmusic quoted her as saying.

“It does take you by surprise initially, but it’s all about being flexible and trying to understand how another actor works.

“I found a lot of things in his acting style that I could pick up and learn from,” she stated.

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A new still from Rise of the Planet of the Apes has surfaced via the film’s imdb page! I’ve added the single still to the gallery.

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- 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes > Production Stills

Here is the full length trailer for Rise of the Planet of the Apes!

Through the five original films in the Planet of the Apes franchise, the short-lived 1974 television series, and Tim Burton‘s 2001 remake, the hyper-intelligent simian stars have been created using prosthetics and makeup effects.  For this summer’s prequel/do-over Rise of the Planet of the Apes, however, director Rupert Wyatt opted instead to create every single ape using motion capture, with Weta Digital providing CGI apes.  The film’s new theatrical trailer just dropped, and it offers our best look yet at ape-revolutionary Caesar and James Franco in scientist mode.  Give it a watch.

It’s hard to believe but when James Franco was shooting his upcoming starring role in the summer blockbuster Rise of the Planet of the Apes, he wasn’t James Franco as you think of him now. We had yet to see his Oscar-nominated performance in 127 Hours, he had yet to awkwardly host that same show and he wasn’t attached to virtually every single major film in pre-production. He was just a solid, well-known actor set to play Will Rodman, a scientist who mistakenly raises and creates the ape that will eventually destroy all humans. While on the set of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Franco was predictably busy, so he was only able to give us a few minutes of his time. Read what he had to say about the role, the legacy of the series and the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition DVDs after the jump.

Question: How hard was it to adjust to the performance capture? Interacting with Andy and things like that.James Franco: I don’t think it took much time at all. Actually, one of my reasons for doing this movie was to work with Andy. I didn’t know Andy was doing it, but to work with all the WETA people, Andrew Lesnie. I have watched every single minute of the extra features on all of the Lord of the Rings and King Kong DVDs. So, just from watching that I kind of had an understanding of how it worked and I thought it would be a new and interesting acting experience, working opposite someone playing a chimpanzee. And Andy signed on, he was signed on like a week or two before we started shooting – to my great satisfaction, he was signed on – and he was so good at it. The imagination just kind of takes over, just like you meet someone and the next day they are playing your mother. You kind of roll with it if the scene is working. Andy was so good with the chimp behavior that it was actually pretty easy to fall into that kind of relationship. And, I guess I’d also, I watched it probably a year ago, but I loved the movie, Koko the Talking Gorilla, directed by Barbet Schroeder, and that was actually shot in my hometown in Palo Alto. So I remember, I guess, something of the way that woman dealt with her Gorilla, kind of came back to me, so I kind of started dealing with him in that way.

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Finally, here’s the first trailer for Rise of the Planet of the Apes!

Earlier this year, 20th Century Fox decided to move their prequel Rise of the Apes back to Thanksgiving weekend for a number of undisclosed reasons, but they’ve now changed their mind and the Rupert (The Escapist) Wyatt-directed movie starring James Franco, Freida Pinto and Andy Serkis will now get a summer release after all on August 5, 2011.

That will put the movie up against Sony’s The Smurfs (opening that Wednesday), the Universal body-changing comedy The Change-Up starring Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman, and the 3D sci-fi thriller The Darkest Hour from Summit.

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Via ComingSoon.Net, here’s the first still of James in Rise of the Apes!

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- 2011 | Rise Of The Apes > Production Stills