James Franco may be best known for his acting, but fans will have to make do with him being behind the camera in the near future.
The Pineapple Express star picked up this year’s Breakthrough Actor Award at the Hollywood Film Festival’s Awards Gala held in Beverly Hills.
But James explained how he’s balancing working in movies whilst learning to direct: “I’m in film school in New York and I did just finally finish my first short.”
The actor laughed when asked if he’d like to win a...
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Lazy court-process clerk and stoner Dale Denton has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver: to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city's most dangerous drug lord, he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him--and it is. As...
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28 Oct, 2008
| by Chase Roper
Stand-Up
Details are finally available about Judd Apatow’s latest project, Funny People. /Film reveals that the plot of the film centers around two main characters who are stand-up comics from opposite ends of the spectrum, George Simmons (Adam Sandler) and Ira (Seth Rogan).
George, an immensely popular comic who “has it all,” finds out that he has only months left to live and no friends in which to surround himself. Ira, a struggling open mic-er...
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We know him best for
Pineapple Express, but director
David Gordon Green
actually has much more independent impulses. His previous film,
Snow Angels, was
dark and dramatic, and he coaxed Kate Beckinsale's best performance in years.
Prior to that, he made the overlooked horror movie
Undertow, in which he coaxed
the best performance we've seen out of Josh Lucas, not that it would take much.
Now Green will adapt the horror thrilla Freaks of the Heartland, based on the
graphic novel by...
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Pineapple Express Premiere at the AMC theater in New York City was a success. The people who brought you 'The 40 year old Virgin', 'Knocked Up' and Superbad are Back! (L-R) Actors Seth Rogen, James Franco, Rosie Perez, producer Shauna Robertson, director David Gordon Green, actor Danny McBride and producer Judd Apatow arrive at the Columbia Pictures screening of "Pineapple Express" presented by Three Olives at the AMC Loews 19th Street August 5, 2008 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan...
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Keywords: seth rogan , elizabeth banks , zack and miri make a porno , movie news , film gossip Seth Rogen is back at his comedy best in Zack and Miri Make a Porno. The Pineapple Express, Knocked up and Kung Fu Panda star his given up his role as a ...
The extreme opposites within Kevin Smith's filmmaking personality coexist in "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," to hit-and-miss effect. Yes, there is a ton of sex as the title would suggest, including one scene that is so incredibly wrong, words don't ...
Kevin Smith hasn't matured enough to actually make a good comedy, but he has accrued enough casting wisdom to elevate his latest homegrown material with the effervescent Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks.
Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks Keep 'Zac... Kevin Smith hasn't matured enough to actually make a good comedy, but he has accrued enough casting wisdom to elevate his latest homegrown material with the ...
The actor's next movie is "Pineapple Express." Seth Rogan is interested in making a sequel to the soon-to-be-released Pineapple Express , if the price is right, but not Superbad .
"THE INCREDIBLE HULK." Scientist Bruce Banner desperately hunts for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the unbridled force of rage within him: The Hulk. Living in the shadows -- cut off from a life he knew and the ...