Here's the latest video from The Lonely Island. Called "Spring Break Anthem," it starts as one of Zach Galifianakis's Between Two Ferns videos with James Franco before breaking out into a full-on Spring Breakers parody Lonely Island music video. Between Two Ferns co-creator Scott Aukerman directed the Between Two Ferns part, while the Lonely Island guys directed the music video. Also, Ed Norton.
Saturday Night, the SNL documentary that James Franco made over four years ago looks like it might actually be getting a release. Franco shot the movie as an NYU grad school project, following the creation of an SNL episode hosted by John Malkovich in December of 2008. When asked about the unreleased project by the Huffington Post, Franco revealed that he recently sold the rights to Focus Features:
"That poor thing … it's something I'm very proud of and it got a great response at the festivals we took it to … I realized I had all of this access that people had never been granted [...]
Okay, I know this shouldn't be the takeaway from this interview with Jay Baruchel, in which he talks about writing roles for women and for himself in Goon and Random Acts of Violence, plus getting ready to work on Seth Rogen's The Apocalypse, but how crazy is it that he's barely met James Franco? "People have always sort of locked me into this sort of [Judd Apatow–based] stable, but the truth is…I have met Franco a grand total of twice in my life, and it was literally just a handshake, 'Nice to meet you,' kind of thing." Who knew?
While discussing James' Franco's SNL documentary, the Your Highness actor ended up grilling Jimmy Fallon about his experience on the show, particularly the bone-chilling sound of pages turning in a quiet room. "My writing is not that great," Fallon reminisced, wincing as he remembered the deafening silence that greets an unsuccessful sketch around the read-through table. "People didn't even look me in the eye when we were done. It just crushed my confidence." Luckily from devastating failure comes great achievements, like the "Christmas Song" with Horatio Sanz.
While originally intended as a seven-minute-long class project for an NYU course, Franco's documentary, due out in June, eventually became a [...]
Donald Glover is hosting the MTVu Woodie Awards, so Vulture asked him if he took any cues from Franco's recent awards show hosting gig: "I mean, it was pretty funny to watch somebody as high as Franco. Was he not? Was he not high? Can you watch and be like, 'That dude was totally sober!' When they called his name out he literally gave the thumbs-up. It was like an Abbott and Costello thing where he was playing it real cool, and she was keeping it together. I love Franco. I think he’s the smoothest dude ever."
Yesterday, Seth Rogen and company released a fake trailer for Pineapple Express 2 as an April Fool's Day gag, which ended up being a piece of actual promotion for their new apocalypse comedy This Is the End. Now, they've released an actual new trailer for This Is the End, a movie that Rogen co-wrote/co-directed that stars him, Jonah Hill, James Franco, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, and Craig Robinson as themselves. Beware, the trailer's jam-packed with spoilers, revealing some major character deaths and other stuff too.
To promote his new movie Oz, the Great and the Powerful, James Franco arrived to Jimmy Kimmel's studio last night by descending from a hot air balloon and running down a yellow brick road. For once, James Franco does a weird James Franco-y thing because a movie studio put him up to it instead of as some pretentious personal art project.
What was once called Jay & Seth vs. the Apocalypse is now called The Apocalypse, and its cast of Jay Baruchel and Seth Rogen has ballooned out to include James Franco, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson – still all trapped in an apartment during the apocalypse. There's always room for those guys in an end-of-days fallout-shelter-type gathering, as I always say (it's a very clumsy motto, and almost never applicable to the situation). Seth Rogen will direct the movie, which will likely start shooting in the fall.
The fine, gooey line between homoeroticism and bromance blurs even more when James Franco and Danny McBride haze MTV's Josh Horowitz while promoting Your Highness. I guess you're setting them up by titling the show Male Bondage, but that can go so many different ways. Subjecting Horowitz to audible Academy-Award-winner farts, commanding him to "get his dick off the ground" while doing The Worm and pretending to jerk off in his face is just enough male camaraderie to distract me from McBride's conspicuously missing mustache. What had happened to it? Josh Horowitz never had any friends later on like the ones he had when James Franco grabbed him [...]
Here's a video shown when Apatow hosted the Producer's Guild Awards in which he and James Franco videochat about how woefully unprepared Franco is to host the Oscars. Hey, you've still got time, Franco! And I'm sure Billy Crystal is available if you're really in a bind.
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are getting ready to direct their second movie together. THR reports that Rogen and his longtime writing partner Evan Goldberg have signed on to direct, write, and produce a comedy called The Interview, with Rogen playing one of the two lead roles. James Franco is the top choice for the other main character, but he hasn't become involved officially yet. The Interview follows a good-looking talk show host (Franco, if he signs on) and his producer (Rogen) who accidentally get caught up in a plan to assassinate the prime minister of North Korea. Rogen and Goldberg made their directorial debut with [...]
Here's Seth Rogen and James Franco introducing the new trailer for their apocalypse comedy This Is the End (previously titled End of the World), which comes out June 14th, 2013. It stars Rogen, Franco, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, and Craig Robinson as themselves facing the end of the world in Los Angeles. Rogen wrote and directed the movie with his longtime writing partner Evan Goldberg, and Michael Cera, Emma Watson, Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rihanna, Aziz Ansari, Mindy Kaling, Martin Starr, David Krumholtz, and Kevin Hart also appear as themselves. The trailer is being released this week to coincide with the Mayan-predicted apocalypse and features some jokes [...]
All the jobs! All the jobs in the world must belong to James Franco! At the beginning of last night's episode Stephen vows to use Franco's Colbert interview to expose the Your Highness star as "the fraud he is," and, well, let's just say I don't think James is really reading that huge tome. After pretending to be his own brother Frank Jameso (because, sure), Franco gets buffeted by the winds of Stephen's intense charisma. After being bested at a Lord Of The Rings trivia face-off and talking at length about why he is enrolled at approximately eighteen universities (because acting is an interpretive art not suited for [...]
Sure, to be fair, Danny McBride is just playing Kenny Powers with a British accent. But oh, how it satisfies. "Are you going to just sit here and ruin all of my jerkings?" McBride's Thadeous queries Franco's Fabious. It's like what your mama said about foul-mouth medieval stoner knight comedies: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The Your Highness red band trailer pretty much guarantees that just because some gags are predictable (falling down, bare-chested nymphs, probably more falling down), that doesn't mean they won't feel as fresh and renewing as a cold spring against an Academy Award-winners bare ass when you're watching them. "Doesn't Courtney's new [...]
