In a preemptive swoop, the distributor has picked up James Franco’s dramedy about a young man obsessed with cinema who rises through the ranks in 1970s Hollywood.
Franco directs and stars alongside Megan Fox, Seth Rogen, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Jacki Weaver, Joey King and Dave Franco.
Franco and Vince Jolivette produce via their Rabbit Bandini Productions alongside Caroline Aragon and Michael Mendelsohn through his Patriot Pictures.
Paul Felten and Ian Olds adapted the Zeroville screenplay from Steve Erickson’s 2007 novel of the same name.
Alchemy plans to release the film, currently in post-production, in 2016.
Vice-president of acquisitions Jeff Deutchman negotiated the deal with Patriot CEO Mendelsohn.
Franco directs and stars alongside Megan Fox, Seth Rogen, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Jacki Weaver, Joey King and Dave Franco.
Franco and Vince Jolivette produce via their Rabbit Bandini Productions alongside Caroline Aragon and Michael Mendelsohn through his Patriot Pictures.
Paul Felten and Ian Olds adapted the Zeroville screenplay from Steve Erickson’s 2007 novel of the same name.
Alchemy plans to release the film, currently in post-production, in 2016.
Vice-president of acquisitions Jeff Deutchman negotiated the deal with Patriot CEO Mendelsohn.
- 9/12/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
While we’re still waiting for the big deals to pop, there are some small ones trickling in. Alchemy acquired North American distribution rights to Zeroville, the film James Franco wrote, directed, and stars in with Megan Fox, Seth Rogen, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Jacki Weaver, Joey King and Dave Franco. James Franco and Vince Jolivette are producing via their Rabbit Bandini Productions banner, along with Caroline Aragon and Michael Mendelsohn. Pic will release next…...
- 9/12/2015
- Deadline
• Megan Fox will take the female lead in Zeroville, starring opposite James Franco, who is also directing. Adapted from the novel by Steve Erickson, the story follows a film-obsessed man (Franco) who arrives in Hollywood in 1969, hoping to break in to the business just as the industry is at a major turning point. Fox will play a Hollywood starlet with an uneasy past who becomes the romantic interest and obsession of Franco’s character. Seth Rogen, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Will Ferrell, Jacki Weaver, and Horatio Sanz also star. Vince Jolivette of Rabbit Bandini is producing along with Caroline Aragon,...
- 10/24/2014
- by C. Molly Smith
- EW - Inside Movies
James Franco has recruited a cabal of pals for his “proto-punk Forrest Gump goes to 1970’s Hollywood” lit adaptation Zeroville, now filming in La. Joining Franco and the recently announced Jacki Weaver are Franco’s The Interview co-star Seth Rogen, Megan Fox, Danny McBride, Dave Franco, Craig Robinson, Joey King, and Horatio Sanz. Franco is directing and stars as a naive loner who’s drawn to the film business, becomes mistaken for a Manson family member and gets hired as a film editor. Paul Felton and Ian Olds adapted the script from Steve Erickson’s 2007 novel. Franco is producing with Vince Jolivette for Rabbit Bandini Productions, Caroline Aragon, and Michael Mendelsohn for Patriot Pictures. Union Patriot Capital Management financed the pic and Embankment is selling internationally next month at Afm.
Brad Carter (True Detective, Sons of Anarchy) has been cast in Fox and New Regency’s The Revenant opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy.
Brad Carter (True Detective, Sons of Anarchy) has been cast in Fox and New Regency’s The Revenant opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy.
- 10/24/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Seth Rogen, Megan Fox and Will Ferrell have joined James Franco's Zeroville.
Danny McBride, Dave Franco, Craig Robinson, Joey King and Horatio Sanz have also been added to the film, reports Screen Daily.
Zeroville is an adaptation of the Steve Erikson 2007 novel set in the late 1960s.
The story centers around a 24-year-old architecture student and film obsessive with a print of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun tattooed on his head.
He travels to Hollywood and finds himself swept up into the film business after being mistaken for a member of the Charles Manson Family.
In addition to a starring role, Franco will also be directing the feature with Caroline Aragon and Vince Jolivette set to produce.
Jacki Weaver was recently added to the lineup.
Rogen and Franco are longtime collaborators on projects including The Interview, This is the End and The Sound and the Fury.
Danny McBride, Dave Franco, Craig Robinson, Joey King and Horatio Sanz have also been added to the film, reports Screen Daily.
Zeroville is an adaptation of the Steve Erikson 2007 novel set in the late 1960s.
The story centers around a 24-year-old architecture student and film obsessive with a print of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun tattooed on his head.
He travels to Hollywood and finds himself swept up into the film business after being mistaken for a member of the Charles Manson Family.
In addition to a starring role, Franco will also be directing the feature with Caroline Aragon and Vince Jolivette set to produce.
Jacki Weaver was recently added to the lineup.
Rogen and Franco are longtime collaborators on projects including The Interview, This is the End and The Sound and the Fury.
- 10/24/2014
- Digital Spy
Exclusive: Seth Rogen, Jacki Weaver, Megan Fox, Will Ferrell to star; Embankment to sell.
London-based sales and finance outfit Embankment Films has boarded James Franco’s comedy-drama Zeroville, which is now shooting in California, and is shaping up to be among the most-intriguing and fun new projects at the Afm (Nov 5-12)
127 Hours star Franco is directing and will star in the adaptation of Steve Erickson’s 2007 novel about a naive loner driven to Hollywood in the 1960s by the allure of the movies.
Franco is joined in the all-star cast by Seth Rogen, Jacki Weaver, Megan Fox, Will Ferrell, Danny McBride, Dave Franco, Craig Robinson, Joey King and Horatio Sanz.
In recent days, Franco has posted pictures of himself on set with Fox and Ferrell on Twitter and Instagram.
Paul Felton and Ian Olds have adapted Erickson’s novel.
Franco plays a young film-obsessed architecture student with images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift (as they...
London-based sales and finance outfit Embankment Films has boarded James Franco’s comedy-drama Zeroville, which is now shooting in California, and is shaping up to be among the most-intriguing and fun new projects at the Afm (Nov 5-12)
127 Hours star Franco is directing and will star in the adaptation of Steve Erickson’s 2007 novel about a naive loner driven to Hollywood in the 1960s by the allure of the movies.
Franco is joined in the all-star cast by Seth Rogen, Jacki Weaver, Megan Fox, Will Ferrell, Danny McBride, Dave Franco, Craig Robinson, Joey King and Horatio Sanz.
In recent days, Franco has posted pictures of himself on set with Fox and Ferrell on Twitter and Instagram.
Paul Felton and Ian Olds have adapted Erickson’s novel.
Franco plays a young film-obsessed architecture student with images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift (as they...
- 10/24/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Nathalie Emmanuel, best known for her role as Daenerys' hand maiden Missandei in HBO's "Game of Thrones," has joined the cast of the upcoming sequel "The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials" at 20th Century Fox.
Emmanuel will play Harriet, the leader of another group of maze runners. She joins a cast that includes Dylan O'Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Patricia Clarkson, Rosa Salazar and Giancarlo Esposito. Filming on the project begins next month. [Source: The Hollywood Reporter]
Fan Girl
Kiernan Shipka ("Mad Men") will join Meg Ryan, Kara Hayward, Scott Adsit, Joshua Boone, and Bill Sage in "Fan Girl". Pop punk band All Time Low lends its music to the film and will appear as themselves.
The story follows a post-millennial teen who lives for making movies and idolizing her favorite band. Given a few days to complete a final film project, she comes up...
Nathalie Emmanuel, best known for her role as Daenerys' hand maiden Missandei in HBO's "Game of Thrones," has joined the cast of the upcoming sequel "The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials" at 20th Century Fox.
Emmanuel will play Harriet, the leader of another group of maze runners. She joins a cast that includes Dylan O'Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Patricia Clarkson, Rosa Salazar and Giancarlo Esposito. Filming on the project begins next month. [Source: The Hollywood Reporter]
Fan Girl
Kiernan Shipka ("Mad Men") will join Meg Ryan, Kara Hayward, Scott Adsit, Joshua Boone, and Bill Sage in "Fan Girl". Pop punk band All Time Low lends its music to the film and will appear as themselves.
The story follows a post-millennial teen who lives for making movies and idolizing her favorite band. Given a few days to complete a final film project, she comes up...
- 10/24/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
• Meg Ryan and Kara Hayward are joining Kiernan Shipka in Fan Girl. The film follows a 15-year-old post-Millennial teenager who combines her passions—making movies and idolizing her favorite band—in a final film project. Paul Jarrett is making his directorial debut with the semi-autobiographical film. Gina O'Brien wrote the script. The film also stars Scott Adsit, Joshua Boone, and Bill Sage. All Time Low will lend their music to the soundtrack and will appear as themselves. Jarrett, Nick Huston, and Adam Spielberg in association with Rosetta Films, Filament Productions and Literally Films are producing. O'Brien and Jonathan Gray are executive producing.
- 10/24/2014
- by C. Molly Smith
- EW - Inside Movies
Gracepoint and Silver Linings Playbook star Jacki Weaver has signed up for the movie Zeroville.
The 67-year-old actress has been cast in the leading role of Dotty, a film editor and mentor to James Franco's character, Deadline reports.
Zeroville is an adaptation of the Steve Erikson novel set in the late 1960s.
The story centers around a 24-year-old student who travels to Hollywood with a dream of making it big in the movie business.
In addition to a starring role, Franco will also be directing the feature with Caroline Aragon and Vince Jolivette set to produce.
Weaver is currently starring in Gracepoint in the role of Susan Wright and is also attached to the Starz series Blunt Talk.
The 67-year-old actress has been cast in the leading role of Dotty, a film editor and mentor to James Franco's character, Deadline reports.
Zeroville is an adaptation of the Steve Erikson novel set in the late 1960s.
The story centers around a 24-year-old student who travels to Hollywood with a dream of making it big in the movie business.
In addition to a starring role, Franco will also be directing the feature with Caroline Aragon and Vince Jolivette set to produce.
Weaver is currently starring in Gracepoint in the role of Susan Wright and is also attached to the Starz series Blunt Talk.
- 10/23/2014
- Digital Spy
The Sound and the Fury
Director: James Franco
Writer: Matt Rager
Producers: Caroline Aragon, Lee Caplin, Vince Jolivette
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Loretta Devine, Danny McBride, Jon Hamm, Dave Franco
The mind-bogglingly busy James Franco experienced such success with last year’s adaptation of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying that’s he’s fast at work on another of Faulkner’s beloved works. While Martin Ritt directed this in 1959 starring Yul Brynner, Franco has assembled some of his Dying cast to return, like Tim Blake Nelson and Danny McBride. We’re excited to see the lovely Loretta Devine in the lineup, as well. With the success of Dying, this is bound to be an interesting companion piece. And, oh yeah, Franco also directed a Bukowski biopic and is filming new projects with Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog amidst a handful of other titles.
Director: James Franco
Writer: Matt Rager
Producers: Caroline Aragon, Lee Caplin, Vince Jolivette
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Loretta Devine, Danny McBride, Jon Hamm, Dave Franco
The mind-bogglingly busy James Franco experienced such success with last year’s adaptation of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying that’s he’s fast at work on another of Faulkner’s beloved works. While Martin Ritt directed this in 1959 starring Yul Brynner, Franco has assembled some of his Dying cast to return, like Tim Blake Nelson and Danny McBride. We’re excited to see the lovely Loretta Devine in the lineup, as well. With the success of Dying, this is bound to be an interesting companion piece. And, oh yeah, Franco also directed a Bukowski biopic and is filming new projects with Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog amidst a handful of other titles.
- 2/7/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
As I Lay Dying, a drama and official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, has first poster up. The film also includes Tim Blake Nelson, Danny McBride, Logan Marshall-Green, Ahna O'Reilly, Jim Parrack, Beth Grant and Brady Permenter. Franco directs from a script he wrote with Matt Rager, based on the 1930 novel by William Faulker. The story tells of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest to honor her wish to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson. The film was shot in Canton, Mississipi and is produced by Caroline Aragon, Lee Caplin, Vince Jolivette, Miles Levy, Matthew O'Toole, Robert Van Norden and Millennium Films' Avi Lerner. Heidi Jo Markel serves as executive producer.
- 5/9/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Los Angeles Film Festival has announced the world premiere of Richard Linklater's Bernie as the opening night film for the 2011 festival.
The film will kick off the festival on June 16 at Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 at L.A. Live. It is written by Skip Hollandsworth and director Linklater and stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey.
The film follows a beloved mortician (Black) from a small Texas town, even winning over the town's richest, meanest widow (MacLaine). Even after Bernie commits a horrible crime, people still will not utter a bad word against him.
"We're thrilled to be opening the Festival with the world premiere of this delicious black comedy - a treat from one of the most original and exciting voices in independent film, Richard Linklater," said Festival director Rebecca Yeldham. "With its fabulous all-star cast, Bernie is a perfect stage setter for the incredible line-up of...
The film will kick off the festival on June 16 at Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 at L.A. Live. It is written by Skip Hollandsworth and director Linklater and stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey.
The film follows a beloved mortician (Black) from a small Texas town, even winning over the town's richest, meanest widow (MacLaine). Even after Bernie commits a horrible crime, people still will not utter a bad word against him.
"We're thrilled to be opening the Festival with the world premiere of this delicious black comedy - a treat from one of the most original and exciting voices in independent film, Richard Linklater," said Festival director Rebecca Yeldham. "With its fabulous all-star cast, Bernie is a perfect stage setter for the incredible line-up of...
- 5/30/2011
- by alyssa@mediavine.com (Alyssa Caverley)
- Reel Movie News
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