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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema and more

Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

Fresh This Is The End Red Band Trailer – More fun from Seth Rogen’s star-studded directorial debut

April 2, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


It’s tough to tell whether This Is The End is going to be as fun as it looks, or if the whole thing will be a giant in-joke that it’ll be tough for general audiences to get into.

The likes of James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson play versions of themselves in the film, who are trapped in Franco’s house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside. Eventually, they are forced to leave the house, facing their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption.

As this new red band trailer reveals, there’s also room for Emma Watson, and Hermione is going to steal all their shit! The movie arrives in cinemas this June.

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ACTORS: James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson  DIRECTORS: Seth Rogen, Evan Golberg  FILMS: This Is The End  

Seth Rogen To Direct The Interview, With James Franco Possibly Starring

March 22, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

seth-rogenSeth Rogen’s first directorial effort, This Is The End, hasn’t reached cinemas yet, but he’s already planning a follow-up, as he’s teaming up with Sony Pictures to direct, produce, and star in The Interview, according to THR. The studio is also courting Rogen’s Pineapple Express co-star James Franco for the other lead role, although negotiations have not started yet.

The movie is about a popular talk show host (which would be Franco’s role) and his producer (Seth Rogen), who become involved in a plot to assassinate the prime minister of North Korea. After Red Dawn, this is another movie that’s unlikely to improve relations between Kim-Jong Un and the West.

Seth Rogen is co-writing the screenplay with long-time scripting partner Evan Goldberg, based on an original story they concocted with The Daily Show’s Dan Sterling. It isn’t known when the $30 million project will start.

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ACTORS: Seth Rogen, James Franco  DIRECTORS: Seth Rogen  FILMS: The Interview  

James Franco Says He’s Lost Advertising Campaigns Due To Gay Image

March 12, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


James Franco loves him some gay, but it appears that many corporations don’t feel the same way. Gay.net caught up with the actor at a screening of his movie, Spring Breakers, where he told them, “I’ve lost three kind of advertising campaigns now because the companies say they don’t like my image, but I know that it’s directly related to the films that I put out at Sundance. So you could say that there’s still this kind of homophobia or prejudice against certain kinds of material in mainstream cinema.”

The reference to ‘kind of advertisement campaigns’ probably refers to endorsement deals that celebs enter to wear particular brands of clothes, perfumes or accessories. However, while he may have lost three, we’d bet the success of Oz The Great And Powerful has a few more lining up.

It does suggest though that there’s still a level of homophobia in corporate America, where they’d probably suggest they dropped Franco due to the fact he isn’t afraid of controversial movies – such as his Travis Mathews collaboration Interior Leather Bar, which features real gay sex – when it’s actually his interest in exploring gay sexuality that’s the problem. After all, would they have dropped him if he was looking at vanilla straight sex?

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ACTORS: James Franco  

Oz The Great And Powerful (Cinema)

March 9, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis, Zach Braff
Director: Sam Raimi
Running Time: 140 mins
Certificate: PG
Release Date: March 8th 2013

After much fanfare and a marketing blitz, Oz The Great And Powerful is finally here. So is it worth going down the yellow brick road on Sam Raimi’s trip to L. Frank Baum’s magical world? Are the Friends Of Oscar as good as the Friends Of Dorothy? The answer is yes, even if the film is far from perfect.

James Franco is Oscar Diggs, a Kansan sideshow magician and huckster who sells his illusions as real magic. He has an eye for the ladies and doesn’t care that’s he’s left a thousand broken hearts behind him, but things catch up to him when the circus strongman realises Oscar has been dallying with his gal. Oscar escapes in his hot air balloon (goodness knows why he was one, but he does), which then gets caught up in a twister and transports him all the way to Oz. [Read more…]

Oz: The Great and Powerful Sequel Already In The Works

March 8, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

oz-great-powerful-poster3Disney must have a fair amount of confidence in Oz The Great And Powerful, as the studio already has a sequel in the works. Variety reports that Mitchell Kapner, who co-wrote the first screenplay with David Lindsay-Abaire, has been hired to pen the follow-up.

It’s early days and nothing has been released about the story, although it will presumably follow Oscar Digg’s further adventures in Oz, between the first movie and the arrival of Dorothy. There are still a few legal issues they’ll have to get around through, as while L. Frank Baum’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is in the public domain, anything specifically added by MGM for the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz is out of bounds (as it’s owned by them), such as Dorothy’s ruby slippers.

Mitchell Kapner was hired to work on the sequel script months ago, although Disney hasn’t commented on the sequel plans at this time.

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ACTORS: James Franco  DIRECTORS: Sam Raimi  FILMS: Oz The Great And Powerful  

James Franco Calls On Australian Censor To Overturn Ban Of LGBT-Film I Want Your Love

March 5, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


We reported last week that the notoriously ban-happy Australians censors have refused to give a permit for Travis Mathews’ I Want Your Love to screen at Aussie film festivals this year. While most previous bans had been handed down to films that mixed sex and violence or covered other contentious issues, I Want Your Love is an intimate film that merely happens to contain real, consensual, non-violent sex.

It wouldn’t have been the first time the Aussie censors allowed real sex in a movie, but as this was gay sex, it’s led some to claim the decision has homophobic.

Now James Franco has stepped into the debate. He worked with Mathews recently on Interior Leather Bar, and so Travis reached out to Franco about the ban, with the actor now making an appeal to overturn the ban in a Youtube video.

He says, “I don’t know why in this day and age something like this, a film that’s using sex not for titillation but to talk about being human, is being banned. It’s just embarrassing. I hope you’ll reconsider.”

As things stand, I Want Your Love is banned from screening at its planned showings at the Melbourne and Brisbane queer film festivals (although there is the possibility they’ll show the film anyway and risk a fine).

Take a look at Franco’s appeal above.

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ACTORS: James Franco  FILMS: I Want Your Love  

James Franco Admits That Gay Rumours Are Partly His Fault

March 4, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

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While those following James Franco’s career know he’s a straight man with an almost obsessive interest in all things gay, there are plenty out there who’ve assumed the fact he likes to make movies about gay people means he like a bit of man loving himself.

And in a new interview with Attitude he suggests that his public persona also adds to questions about his sexuality.

He says, “One of the things that’s very much part of my public image is the question of my sexuality,’ the 34-year-old told Attitude magazine.

“It’s not something that bothers me in the slightest. It hasn’t gone away and I get asked about it from all sides. It’s partly my doing and partly not my doing.”

If he was gay, it doesn’t sound like he’d have any problem coming out, as he thinks it’s time for a gay a-lister. “I think that the people I have known who are performers who haven’t publicly come out didn’t because they’re afraid it’ll hurt their careers. And they’re afraid they won’t be able to play straight roles anymore.

“I think the time is about right. I’m not an authority on this but if I think about it for a second…if there’s somebody that was well respected and very secure with their career, I could see it happening in a very positive way.”

The full interview is in the April issue of Attitude which hits news-stands on March 6th. (Via Pinknews)

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ACTORS: James Franco  

Final Oz The Great & Powerful Trailer Arrives – Heading into the wonderful world

March 1, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


It’s just a week until Oz The Great And Powerful hits cinemas on March 8th, and in case people weren’t excited enough, Disney has released a final trailer showing off the excitement and incredible visuals of Sam Raimi’s movie.

Here’s the official synopsis: ‘Disney’s fantastical adventure “Oz The Great and Powerful,” directed by Sam Raimi, imagines the origins of L. Frank Baum’s beloved wizard character. When Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he’s hit the jackpot—fame and fortune are his for the taking—that is until he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone’s been expecting.

‘Reluctantly drawn into the epic problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and who is evil before it is too late. Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity—and even a bit of wizardry—Oscar transforms himself not only into the great wizard but into a better man as well.’

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ACTORS: James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis  DIRECTORS: Sam Raimi  FILMS: Oz The Great And Powerful  

Felicity Jones Tells A True Story, Alongside Jonah Hill & James Franco

February 6, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

felicity-jonesFor the last couple of years, actress Felicity Jones has seemed poised to break into the big time, and perhaps she’s closer to that by signing on to play the female lead in True Story. She joins Jonah Hill and James Franco who signed up to star last year. Brad Pitt will produce.

The movie is based on New York Times journalist Michael Finkel’s memoir, which is all about how a serial killer called Christian Longo stole the reporter’s identity. A day after Longo was caught in Mexico using Finkel’s name, the newspaper fired him. However, the journo was given a shot at redemption when Longo revealed that the only person he would talk to is Finkel.

Jonah Hill will play the journalist while James Franco is Longo. Felicity Jones will play Finkel’s girlfriend, who stands by her man throughout this ordeal.

Rupert Goold is set to directing from a screenplay by David Kajganich. (Source: Deadline)

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ACTORS: Felicity Jones, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Brad Pitt  FILMS: True Story  

Oz The Great And Powerful Superbowl Spot – James Franco heads for a fantastical world

February 4, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


It’s just about a month until Disney release Oz The Great And Powerful on the world, and they’ll be hoping for Alice In Wonderland style returns on their hefty investment. Now a short Superbowl spot has emerged, giving us another quick glimpse into Sam Raimi’s take on L. Frank Baum’s classic fantastical world.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Disney’s fantastical adventure “Oz The Great and Powerful,” directed by Sam Raimi, imagines the origins of L. Frank Baum’s beloved character, the Wizard of Oz. When Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he’s hit the jackpot—fame and fortune are his for the taking—that is until he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone’s been expecting.

‘Reluctantly drawn into the epic problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and who is evil before it is too late. Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity—and even a bit of wizardry—Oscar transforms himself not only into the great and powerful Wizard of Oz but into a better man as well.’

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: James Franco, Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz  DIRECTORS: Sam Raimi  FILMS: Oz The Great And Powerful  
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