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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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I’ve finally uploaded photos of James at the opening of ‘Terrywood’ in Los Angeles and one solo photo of James at the Mercedes-Benz Oscar viewing party.

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- Appearances > 2012 > Mercedes-Benz Oscar Viewing Party
- Appearances > 2012 > OHWOW Los Angeles Opening of ‘TERRYWOOD’ by Terry Richardson

James graces the cover of not one, but three different magazines this month. And two of the three feature a brand new photoshoot! Check out the covers, plus a few outtakes in the gallery!

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- Magazine Scans > Scans from 2012 > GQ Style Germany
- Magazine Scans > Scans from 2012 >Mister Muse
- Magazine Scans > Scans from 2012 > Spex Magazine (March/April)
- Photoshoots > Outtakes > 2012 > Session #003
- Photoshoots > Outtakes > 2012 > Session #002

Jonah Hill and James Franco are attached to star in True Story, the Rupert Goold-directed adaptation of a memoir by journalist Michael Finkel. Pitt and Dede Gardner’s Plan B is are producing.

Jonah will play Finkel, who was a writer at The New York Times Magazine in 2002 when he learned that Christian Longo was captured in Mexico after a long stint on the FBI Ten Most Wanted List for killing his family. The strange part was that he had been living under the identity of Finkel. The very next day, the real Finkel was fired by the editors of The Times, right after they ran an editor’s note declaring that he had falsified parts of an investigative article. His career seemed over, until Longo (who’ll be played by Franco) declared that the real Finkel was the only journalist he would talk to. That led to a surreal relationship with the accused murderer, who was trying to declare his innocence. For the real Finkel, it was an opportunity to unravel the mystery and perhaps redeem himself as a journalist.

Source: Deadline

Typically swaggered, slightly squinted (a la Oscars), and donning a quilted Gucci leather jacket, Mr. Franco beamed around the room, shaking hands, kissing babies and then, finally, speaking with The Observer.

JF: Hey man, have we met before? You look familiar.

NYO: I don’t believe so, but that’s not terribly important. Mind if I ask you what it was like to obliterate an apartment with a sledgehammer on film for Wholphin films?

JF: You saw that! Haha! I love those guys, we had a ton of fun. I really fucked that room up didn’t I? Funny you mention Wholphin actually, it’s a bit under wraps but I’m doing a whole new project with them, basically focusing on all of my short films from film school. It’s gonna be fun.

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Last night, actor-cum-director James Franco nervously introduced “My Own Private River” to a full house at the Film Society at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater. The 9pm screening of Franco’s film, a companion piece composed of never-before-seen outtakes from Gus Van Sant’s milestone drama “My Own Private Idaho” starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves as young, gay street hustlers, was part of the Film Society’s annual “Film Comment Selects” program. “Film Comment Selects” highlights films curated by the writers of Film Comment Magazine, a periodical produced by Lincoln Center and edited by Gavin Smith.

“I didn’t want to compete with Gus’ film,” Franco explained during a post-screening Q&A moderated by Smith. Still, the complicated story behind the production of Franco’s film rivals Van Sant’s own seminal film.”My Own Private River” was originally a 12-hour art project called “Endless Idaho.” Franco got Gucci to help pay for the cost of digitizing the old film stock Van Sant gifted to him and turned into ‘Endless,”‘ which was screened as an art installation at the Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles. According to Franco, Van Sant offered to give him a tour of the Idaho locations where he shot “My Own Private Idaho” provided Franco accompanied him during press junkets for “Milk.” Since Franco is such a big fan of the film, he readily assented, calling the opportunity “a dream come true.” Soon after that, Van Sant and Franco reviewed unused footage from ‘Idaho,’ which gave Franco the idea to reassemble the footage with a new focus on the late River Phoenix’s character, Mike.

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The first trailer for Cherry has recently been released and you can check it out below. A synopsis for the film has also been provided.

Cherry is about Angelina (Ashley Hinshaw), an 18-year-old girl on the verge of finishing high school. Angelina’s family life is difficult. Her mother (Lili Taylor) is an alcoholic and her step-father is violent and unpredictable. One morning her boyfriend (Jonny Weston) suggests she take naked pictures for money. She balks at first but then does the photo shoot, using the money to run-off with her best friend (Dev Patel) to San Francisco. In San Francisco, while cocktailing in a strip club, Angelina meets Frances (James Franco) a well-off lawyer who offers to introduce her to a different kind of world, a place full of expensive dresses and fancy parties. But that world is not as perfect as it first appears and Frances has problems of his own. At the same time Angelina, using the moniker Cherry, has begun exploring the San Francisco porn industry under the direction of Margaret (Heather Graham) a former performer turned adult film director.

As you know, James Franco is currently in the midst of shooting “Child of God,” an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy‘s grim novel about about a violent man living on the edges of society, and dabbling in all kinds of unsavory activities (necrophilia, pedophilia among them). And while at any given moment Franco has about fifteen hundred things going on, you don’t have to worry that this one might be neglected, because it seems it’s going to make its debut sooner than we thought.

The film is currently shooting in West Virginia and The Pocahontas Times recently got some time with the filmmakers, who shared their plans for the movie. ”We’ll hit film festivals in six to eight months and then it’ll be out in theaters next year,” said producer Vince Jolivette. No word on if any deals have been struck with distributors yet (doubtful, since most will want to see what they’re dealing with first) but fingers crossed as it seems this could be headed to Toronto or Venice to unspool in the fall.

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James Franco’s directorial debut as an ad man will break on YouTube on Feb. 15, when Seven For All Mankind launches its dedicated channel for its spring campaign. Video vignettes lensed by Franco will go up weekly through the spring, with each about two to three minutes in length and culled from hours of footage shot by the actor-director-artist-Yale Ph.D. student. In total, 10 episodes will go up at Youtube.com/7forallmankindjeans.

 
“The videos have a vintage feel to them. They feel like they are from a different era, which I think really fits with the new line that Seven had in the shoot — a lot of cool denim tops and jeans,” said Franco in a phone interview from West Virginia, where he was behind the camera on his latest project, a film version of “Child of God,” based on the Cormac McCarthy novel.

 

 

“The look of the film and the clothes feels very Seventies,” added Franco of the Seven shoot. “We shot right on the beach and drove up the PCH [Pacific Coast Highway], so I guess you could say it’s a vintage 1970’s California dreamy feel. The movies that I cut together have a lot of weird double exposures and super- imposed images over other images, so it’s a real, I guess you could say, trip.”

 
Franco has cut together several versions of the film, titled “The Death of Natalie Wood,” including one that clocks in at over three hours. He plans to screen the extended version in May at an art installation called “Rebel,” which he is cocurating at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. The show is centered on works inspired by the Fifties movie “Rebel Without a Cause”— which starred Natalie Wood and James Dean — and features contributions from Ed Ruscha, Paul McCarthy, Damon McCarthy, Aaron Young and Harmony Korine.

Read more about the campaign here.

Back in September there were reports that, while James Franco had hit a wall with his planned adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, he was sticking with the author and turning to the earlier Child Of God instead. Nothing’s been heard in the meantime, with Franco’s name still attached to practically everything that’s announced, but there are reports this morning that Child Of God is unfolding in front of Franco’s cameras as we speak, and that Tim Blake Nelson is starring.

Even more bleak than Blood Meridian (if that were possible), Child Of God is a slim volume about a backwoodsman called Ballard. Recently released from jail, Ballard opts for the survivalist route, takes up residence in a cave in the East Tennessee hills, and goes on a murderous spree to indulge his penchant for necrophilia.

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On Sunday, Feb. 19 James Franco will screen his film, My Own Private River, as part of Lincoln Center’s Film Comment Selects 2012.

To create the film, Franco took outtakes from Gus Van Sant’s 1991 film My Own Private Idaho and edited together a new version of the movie, combining footage from the original film and its unused residue.

Tickets for the screening are available now and can be purchased for $9.

Source: On Location Vacations