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

New The Disaster Artist Trailer – James Franco becomes the director of the ‘worst film ever’

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While there have been many movies in the last century that have been held up as the world film ever made. However, the one that’s made the strongest run for that title in the last 20 years is probably Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 movie The Room. Met with bemused derision and anger on its initial release, it fast became a cult sensation with audiences invited to marvel at just how dreadful it was.

It’s a film that’s long fascinated James Franco, who’s now made a movie about The Room’s unique creation, The Disaster Artist. It tells the tale of Wiseau who was more a profound artist in his own mind than reality, who decided to write, direct and star in a semi-autobiographical film. However, what started as a difficult production got progressively worse, as Wiseau’s strange filming methods got increasingly extreme, his money ran out, and not least that Tommy’s acting style was unique to say the least.

The film is out in the US and UK in December. Take a look at the new trailer below. [Read more…]

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The Disaster Artist Trailer – James Franco becomes the director of the ‘worst film ever’

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While there have been many movies in the last century that have been held up as the world film ever made. However, the one that’s made the strongest run for that title in the last 20 years is probably Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 movie The Room. Met with bemused derision and anger on its initial release, it fast became a cult sensation with audiences invited to marvel at just how dreadful it was.

It’s a film that’s long fascinated James Franco, who’s now made a movie about The Room’s unique creation, The Disaster Artist. It tells the tale of Wiseau who was more a profound artist in his own mind than reality, who decided to write, direct and star in a semi-autobiographical film. However, what started as a difficult production got progressively worse, as Wiseau’s strange filming methods got increasingly extreme, his money ran out, and not least that Tommy’s acting style was unique to say the least.

The film is out in the UK in December and should arrive in the UK not long afterwards. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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The Disaster Artist Trailer – James Franco takes on the director of the worst movie ever

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Stop the presses – James Franco has made a non-gay movie! However, he’s still interested in outsiders, this time taking on the true story of Tommy Wiseau, the director of 2003’s The Room, with James both directing and starring. The film is held up by many as the worst movie ever made, but has since become a cult favourite due to people being unable to believe how awful it is.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘With The Disaster Artist, James Franco transforms the tragicomic true-story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau – an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable – into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds. Based on Greg Sestero’s best-selling tell-all about the making of Tommy’s cult-classic disasterpiece The Room (“The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made”), The Disaster Artist is a hilarious and welcome reminder that there is more than one way to become a legend— and no limit to what you can achieve when you have absolutely no idea what you’re doing.’

The film got some good reviews coming out of its SXSW debut, with many particularly impressed by Franco’s performance. The Disaster Artist is out in US cinemas in December. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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In Dubious Battle Trailer – James Franco takes on a John Steinbeck adaptation

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in-dubious-battle-slideWhile James Franco hasn’t had any big successes as a director, you certainly can’t blame him for aiming high. He’s previously adapted the likes of William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy for the big screen, and now he’s taking on John Steinbeck with In Dubious Battle.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Set in the orchards of California Valley in the dirty ’30s, Steinbeck’s tale follows two young idealists from “The Party” who are appalled by the orchards’ terrible working conditions and set out to organize the fruit pickers. Having arrived from out of town, Mac McLeod (Franco) and Jim Nolan (Nat Wolff) are met with skepticism and some outright hostility when they first suggest unionizing. Most of the pickers simply want to work and get paid, even if they are being mercilessly exploited. Mac and Jim realize that their progress depends on convincing local elder Al Anderson (Vincent D’Onofrio). He’s a hard nut, but could be won over after Mac helps his daughter-in-law, Lisa (Selena Gomez), when she goes into labour. Surrounding the two activists is a cast of eclectic characters with varying loyalties, among them the ruthless orchard owner (Robert Duvall), who is determined to crack down on any strike action.’

A trailer for the movie has now arrived, which you can watch below. The film debuts at the Venice International Film Festival, with a Toronto International Film Festival screening shortly afterwards. It’s not known when it will be released. [Read more…]

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Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? Trailer – James Franco does a remake with a Lesbian vampire twist

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mother-may-i-sleep-with-danger-slideThe 1996 film Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? is perhaps best known for having been made for cinemas but being so laughably silly that it ended up airing on NBC as a TV movie. It certainly didn’t help Tori Spelling’s career at the time, but it has become a bit of a cult classic.

However, James Franco obviously has a soft spot for it, as he’s remade the movie for Lifetime, but brought a lesbian vampire love story twist to it. Now the trailer has arrived, which sees Spelling return, but this time as the mother rather than the daughter, and other than that, it’s all a bit crazy.

Franco has suggested previously he’s trying to make a very non-Lifetime movie that’s on Lifetime, and it looks like he’s succeeded. Take a look at the trailer below. It’ll premiere in the US on June 18th. [Read more…]

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The Sound And The Fury Trailer – James Franco & friends take on William Faulkner

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the-sound-and-the-fury-slideJames Franco seems to love two things, everything gay and William Faulkner. He’s back into the world of the latter with The Sound And The Fury, his second film directing a movie based on one of Faulkner’s books after As I Lay Dying.

He’s also joined by plenty of his friends, as the likes of Seth Rogen, Danny McBride, Scott Haze, Tim Blake Nelson, Loretta Devine, Joey King, and Ahna O’Reilly also star.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Directed by and starring Academy Award nominee James Franco, The Sound and The Fury captures the lives and passions of the Compsons, a once proud Southern family caught in a tragic spiral of loss and misfortune. Based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner author William Faulkner and considered among the 20th century’s greatest works, The Sound and The Fury encapsulates the universal theme of the death of honor, social injustice and forbidden love.’

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James Franco Lines Up Starry Cast For Steinbeck Adaptation In Dubious Battle

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James Franco has directed far more movies than most people realise, and part of the reason many have gone under the radar is that that are small films with the only well-known name being behind the camera (and ended up with limited distribution).

However he’s thinking bigger with his Steinbeck adaptation In Dubious Battle, with THR reporting that Franco will star alongside Selena Gomez, Vincent D’Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston and Danny McBride.

Published in 1936, In Dubious Battle is considered the first major work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Set in a fictionalized valley in California, the story explores themes Steinbeck continued to develop: group behavior, social injustice, man’s inhumanity to man— all themes which continue to be relevant today. A labor conflict between migrant apple pickers and the local growers’ association is the backdrop against which Jim Nolan (Franco) becomes involved in the labor movement and rapidly matures as he learns what it means to do organizational fieldwork.

It doesn’t exactly sound like the most thrilling of plots, but it was always one of Steinbeck’s skills, to make seemingly dull subject – quite often labour relations and the precarious position of manual labourers in a changing world – and make them interesting. Hopefully Franco will do the same. He’s certainly got a good cast to help him.

The movie will start shooting next month.

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New Kink Trailer – James Franco looks into the world’s biggest BDSM site

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kink-slideThe James Franco produced and Christina Voros directed Kink debuted back in January 2013 at Sundance, but it’s taken a while to get to a larger audience. However it should hopefully be reaching a wider audience soon.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Director Christina Voros and producer James Franco pull back the curtain on the fetish empire of Kink.com, the Internet’s largest producer of BDSM content. In a particularly obscure corner of an industry that operates largely out of public view, Kink.com’s directors and models strive for authenticity. In an enterprise often known for exploitative practices, Kink.com upholds an ironclad set of values to foster an environment that is safe, sane, and consensual. They aim to demystify the BDSM lifestyle, and to serve as an example and an educational resource for the BDSM community.

‘In kink, we discover not only a fascinating and often misunderstood subculture, but also, in a career far from the mainstream, a group of intelligent, charismatic, and driven people who really, truly love what they do.’

Covering both gay and straight kinkster, it’s a doc that might well be worth a look. Watch the new trailer below. [Read more…]

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James Franco To Helm Film About Cult Classic ‘Bad’ Movie The Room

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james-francoAlthough it’s reputation is slightly unfair, Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 cult classic The Room has become a bit of a legend as the worst film ever made (it is bad, but there are worse out there).

Now James Franco and his Rabbit Bandini Productions have picked up the rights to the book The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, which is all about the making of Wiseau’s movie. The Room star Greg Sestero wrote the book alongside journalist Tom Bissell.

Wiseau directed, produced, and self financed the project, which was only released in Southern California during the early 2000s, before word spread that it was something that needed to be seen to be believed. It’s achieves cult status, especially amongst young actors in Hollywood, who realise it’s bad but having a sneaking respect for the fact it got made at all.

James Franco has been a longtime fan and supporter of the movie, and recently reviewed Sestero’s book for Vice Magazine. Franco commented of Tommy Wiseau.”[He is] part vampire, part Hollywood dreamer, part gangster, part Edward D. Wood Jr., and super lonely.” He also described The Disaster Artist as a mix of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Night and The Master

Now Franco will direct and co-produce a film version of the book, with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Point Grey Productions. Ryan Moody is writing the screenplay. James Franco might also star alongside his brother Dave Franco, but that hasn’t bee firmly decided yet. (Source: Deadline)

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Interior. Leather Bar (DVD)

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Sometimes it’s difficult to work out what’s going through the head of James Franco. There’s some evidence in Interior. Leather Bar that Franco isn’t sure himself, but that he’d sure like to find out.

First some background. In 1980 Al Pacino starred in Cruising, with The Exorcist’s William Friedkin directing. The movie sees Al as a cop who is tasked with going undercover into the New York S&M scene, where a gay serial killer is lurking. At first he hates it, but soon a strange fascination grows. [Read more…]