Author: Zehra Phelan
From child wizard to drug runner, Daniel Radcliffe certainly has had a number of different roles in his career so far to try and shake off his Harry Potter persona. In his latest attempt, Beast of Burden, he plays a drug running pilot. Watch the trailer below.
Is it just us? judging by the trailer in which his supposedly last drop goes terribly wrong, he seems to be morphing into Justin Timberlake.
Directed by Jesper Ganslandt (The Ape) from a script by Adam Hoelzel, the film stars Pablo Schreiber (American Gods), and Grace Gummer (Mr. Robot) alongside Radcliffe.
The film will be in select Us cinemas, on VOD and Digital HD February 23, 2018.
Beast of Burden Official Synopsis
Pilot Sean Haggerty (Daniel Radcliffe) must deliver cocaine across the Us-Mexico border for his final run as a drug smuggler. Alone in a small plane, he is faced with the...
From child wizard to drug runner, Daniel Radcliffe certainly has had a number of different roles in his career so far to try and shake off his Harry Potter persona. In his latest attempt, Beast of Burden, he plays a drug running pilot. Watch the trailer below.
Is it just us? judging by the trailer in which his supposedly last drop goes terribly wrong, he seems to be morphing into Justin Timberlake.
Directed by Jesper Ganslandt (The Ape) from a script by Adam Hoelzel, the film stars Pablo Schreiber (American Gods), and Grace Gummer (Mr. Robot) alongside Radcliffe.
The film will be in select Us cinemas, on VOD and Digital HD February 23, 2018.
Beast of Burden Official Synopsis
Pilot Sean Haggerty (Daniel Radcliffe) must deliver cocaine across the Us-Mexico border for his final run as a drug smuggler. Alone in a small plane, he is faced with the...
- 1/18/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Jimmie director’s other films include The Ape and Beast Of Burden with Daniel Radcliffe.
Source: International Film Festival Rotterdam
‘Jimmie’
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has announced the opening and closing films for its 47th edition (24 Jan to 4 Feb).
The event will kick off with Jimmie by Swedish filmmaker Jesper Ganslandt. The road movie about a father and son on the run stars the director and his own four-year-old son in the lead roles.
Ganslandt’s other films include Falkenberg Farewell (2006), The Ape (2010) and the upcoming English-language thriller Beast Of Burden starring Daniel Radcliffe.
Closing the festival on 3 February is Armando Iannucci’s comedy The Death of Stalin, which chronicles the power struggle following Stalin’s death in 1953. Michael Palin, Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor star.
Festival Director Bero Beyer said of Jimmie: “Ganslandt offers a truly new perspective in an intense cinematic experience that makes us view the world anew.
Source: International Film Festival Rotterdam
‘Jimmie’
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has announced the opening and closing films for its 47th edition (24 Jan to 4 Feb).
The event will kick off with Jimmie by Swedish filmmaker Jesper Ganslandt. The road movie about a father and son on the run stars the director and his own four-year-old son in the lead roles.
Ganslandt’s other films include Falkenberg Farewell (2006), The Ape (2010) and the upcoming English-language thriller Beast Of Burden starring Daniel Radcliffe.
Closing the festival on 3 February is Armando Iannucci’s comedy The Death of Stalin, which chronicles the power struggle following Stalin’s death in 1953. Michael Palin, Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor star.
Festival Director Bero Beyer said of Jimmie: “Ganslandt offers a truly new perspective in an intense cinematic experience that makes us view the world anew.
- 1/2/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- Screen Daily Test
Jimmie director’s other films include The Ape and Beast Of Burden with Daniel Radcliffe.
Source: International Film Festival Rotterdam
‘Jimmie’
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has announced the opening and closing films for its 47th edition (24 Jan to 4 Feb).
The event will kick off with Jimmie by Swedish filmmaker Jesper Ganslandt. The road movie about a father and son on the run stars the director and his own four-year-old son in the lead roles.
Ganslandt’s other films include Falkenberg Farewell (2006), The Ape (2010) and the upcoming English-language thriller Beast Of Burden starring Daniel Radcliffe.
Closing the festival on 3 February is Armando Iannucci’s comedy The Death of Stalin, which chronicles the power struggle following Stalin’s death in 1953. Michael Palin, Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor star.
Festival Director Bero Beyer said of Jimmie: “Ganslandt offers a truly new perspective in an intense cinematic experience that makes us view the world anew. The film is an honest...
Source: International Film Festival Rotterdam
‘Jimmie’
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has announced the opening and closing films for its 47th edition (24 Jan to 4 Feb).
The event will kick off with Jimmie by Swedish filmmaker Jesper Ganslandt. The road movie about a father and son on the run stars the director and his own four-year-old son in the lead roles.
Ganslandt’s other films include Falkenberg Farewell (2006), The Ape (2010) and the upcoming English-language thriller Beast Of Burden starring Daniel Radcliffe.
Closing the festival on 3 February is Armando Iannucci’s comedy The Death of Stalin, which chronicles the power struggle following Stalin’s death in 1953. Michael Palin, Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor star.
Festival Director Bero Beyer said of Jimmie: “Ganslandt offers a truly new perspective in an intense cinematic experience that makes us view the world anew. The film is an honest...
- 1/2/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
A extensive look at all those movies James Franco directed.
James Franco has done a lot of things, we’ve heard. Following a successful turn on Judd Apatow’s Freaks and Geeks and a well-received starring spot on a TNT biopic on James Dean, he turned immediately to a litany of pursuits: from playwriting and English degrees to painting and directing no less than ten feature-lengths. The latter project interested me. Were they any good? In Franco’s Rolling Stone profile last year, Jonah Weiner ran around a thesaurus of words like “dizzying,” “indefatigable“ and, wait for it, “multihyphenate” to describe his subject but none of those words mean very much. Paul Klee painted over a thousand paintings in the penultimate last year of his life. So could I. So what?
“What did we do to deserve James Franco?,” asked Rex Reed in a slightly different era. Back then, even the The Guardian agreed with Jared Kushner...
James Franco has done a lot of things, we’ve heard. Following a successful turn on Judd Apatow’s Freaks and Geeks and a well-received starring spot on a TNT biopic on James Dean, he turned immediately to a litany of pursuits: from playwriting and English degrees to painting and directing no less than ten feature-lengths. The latter project interested me. Were they any good? In Franco’s Rolling Stone profile last year, Jonah Weiner ran around a thesaurus of words like “dizzying,” “indefatigable“ and, wait for it, “multihyphenate” to describe his subject but none of those words mean very much. Paul Klee painted over a thousand paintings in the penultimate last year of his life. So could I. So what?
“What did we do to deserve James Franco?,” asked Rex Reed in a slightly different era. Back then, even the The Guardian agreed with Jared Kushner...
- 4/13/2017
- by Andrew Karpan
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Oftentimes, when an actor makes their directorial debut, they seek to cut their teeth on a small project that ultimately makes few waves. Jason Bateman’s Bad Words was mildly amusing, but predictable. James Franco’s The Ape is largely unknown. Even Lake Bell’s In A World… , while great, is a very contained, intimate story. This is not the strategy employed by Academy Award winner Natalie Portman, however, who makes her debut with A Tale Of Love And Darkness.
Based on the memoir by Israeli author Amos Oz, the film takes an unflinching, historical look at the politics of Israel and Palestine, the mother-son relationship, familial grief, and the nurturing of the creative mind, on a personal level. The film is also presented entirely in Hebrew.
“Based on the international best-seller by Amos Oz, A Tale Of Love And Darkness is the story of his youth, set against the...
Based on the memoir by Israeli author Amos Oz, the film takes an unflinching, historical look at the politics of Israel and Palestine, the mother-son relationship, familial grief, and the nurturing of the creative mind, on a personal level. The film is also presented entirely in Hebrew.
“Based on the international best-seller by Amos Oz, A Tale Of Love And Darkness is the story of his youth, set against the...
- 7/22/2016
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
To be certain, James Franco has never been lacking in ambition. From the meta quasi-doc "Francophrenia (Or Don't Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is)" to the Hart Crane biopic "The Broken Tower" to the kinky "Interior. Leather Bar." to the primate co-starring "The Ape," Franco has leapt into filmmaking, taking on challenges and narrative most other filmmakers wouldn't dare to attempt. And while there is something to admire in the ambition of the 35 year-old actor/writer/director's latest venture, "As I Lay Dying," it never amounts to much more than a curiosity. Requiring a decent knowledge of the source material (or at least a quick skim of the Wikipedia page) to fully grasp (and full disclosure, I haven't read the book), Franco's film almost plays out as William Faulkner's "Oregon Trail." The basic premise is pretty straightforward: following the death of matriarch Addie, the Bundren family head to Jefferson,...
- 10/8/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Robert Pattinson Mission: Blacklist gets new director - Jesper Ganslandt - and may start shooting in fall 2013 Production on Mission: Blacklist, to star Robert Pattinson, seemed to have stalled for a while. Director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire quietly dropped out a couple of months ago, but now Deadline.com (“exclusively”) heralds that Jesper Ganslandt "has been tapped" to take the helm of the project about U.S. military interrogator Eric Maddox, whose work is credited for the eventual capture of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. (Note: This bit of "exclusive" news about Robert Pattinson’s eagerly anticipated project has been floating around the Internet since late June.) Jesper Ganslandt’s previous narrative-feature credits, all in his native Sweden, are the family drama Blondie (2012), the psychological thriller The Ape (2009), and the coming-of-age drama Falkenberg Farewell (2006). This last title, a somewhat overlong but ultimately quite moving story, was Sweden’s submission for that year’s...
- 7/11/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
To be certain, James Franco has never been lacking in ambition. From the meta quasi-doc "Francophrenia (Or Don't Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is)" to the Hart Crane biopic "The Broken Tower" to the kinky "Interior. Leather Bar." to the primate co-starring "The Ape," Franco has leapt into filmmaking, taking on challenges and narrative most other filmmakers wouldn't dare to attempt. And while there is something to admire in the ambition of the 35 year-old actor/writer/director's latest venture, "As I Lay Dying," it never amounts to much more than a curiosity. Requiring a decent knowledge of the source material (or at least a quick skim of the Wikipedia page) to fully grasp, Franco's film almost plays out as William Faulkner's "Oregon Trail." The basic premise is pretty straightforward: following the death of matriarch Addie, the Bundren family head to Jefferson, Mississippi to lay her to rest.
- 5/20/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
For all his prolific work across a number of mediums, James Franco's ability to write and direct is, for the most part, still an unknown quantity. He's done a few shorts, and two documentaries, but his three feature films so far -- the comedy "The Ape," the Sal Mineo biopic "Sal," and Hart Crane tale "The Broken Tower" -- haven't exactly become big hits or critical favorites. However, his latest endeavor might change that. Showbiz411 are reporting that Franco has casted up for his adaptation of William Faulkner's classic "As I Lay Dying," with his "Pineapple Express" and "Your Highness" co-star Danny McBride (in what would be his first dramatic role since "All The Real Girls"?), his ex-girlfriend Ahna O'Reilly, and "Prometheus" co-star Logan Marshall-Green all on board along side former Franco-collaborators Tim Blake Nelson and Jim Parrack, both of whom worked with him on...
- 8/21/2012
- by Simon Dang
- The Playlist
James Franco never stops. He’s on speed or something, with a new film seemingly released every other month from the actor (check out Howl if you haven’t yet), but this time, he’s turning his attention to film-making as he talked on the Conan O’Brien Show about his directorial effort: a documentary on the world of porn.
“[We] watched it back and said, ‘Yeah, well, let’s never watch that again.’ Those people in pornos, they are great performers; they’re not just doing it, they’re selling it to an audience. … They’re performing so that an audience can get turned on by that kinda thing. My girlfriend and I didn’t know that, so it was just kinda like weird movement. It was really boring.”
Then he continued: “I actually am very interested in pornography… I watch it, who doesn’t? I’m making a documentary on pornography.
“[We] watched it back and said, ‘Yeah, well, let’s never watch that again.’ Those people in pornos, they are great performers; they’re not just doing it, they’re selling it to an audience. … They’re performing so that an audience can get turned on by that kinda thing. My girlfriend and I didn’t know that, so it was just kinda like weird movement. It was really boring.”
Then he continued: “I actually am very interested in pornography… I watch it, who doesn’t? I’m making a documentary on pornography.
- 8/12/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
Review in a Hurry: After all of the feel-good, comic-book heroics of summer, Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a surprisingly nasty (in a good way) franchise reboot that comes closer than any prior Pota film to being a full-on horror movie. Unlike Tim Burton's "re-imagining," this hews closer to its immediate inspiration, 1972's Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, the one in which oppressed chimps rise up to attack mankind and we humans in the audience cheer our own obsolescence every step of the way. Oh, and this time it's all James Franco's fault. The Bigger Picture: Franco and precocious primates are a volatile combination. In 2005's The Ape, he inherited one as a roommate, and the...
- 8/5/2011
- E! Online
Apes: What's their damn problem? That's the question that film fans have been puzzling over for more than 40 years, thanks to the "Planet of the Apes" franchise.
But it's been more than a decade since angry apes last graced our movie screens, and thus we thought it would be a good time to look back -- to the future! -- so that when you sit down to watch "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" this weekend, you'll know exactly what those angry primates want besides a lifetime supply of bananas.
With that in mind, wrap your puny human brain around eight things you need to know about "Rise of the Planet of the Apes."
1. It's Not a Sequel or a Reboot -- It's a Preboot
The original "Planet of the Apes," which came out back in 1968, was about an astronaut who traveled to a distant world ruled by super intelligent apes ... only to discover,...
But it's been more than a decade since angry apes last graced our movie screens, and thus we thought it would be a good time to look back -- to the future! -- so that when you sit down to watch "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" this weekend, you'll know exactly what those angry primates want besides a lifetime supply of bananas.
With that in mind, wrap your puny human brain around eight things you need to know about "Rise of the Planet of the Apes."
1. It's Not a Sequel or a Reboot -- It's a Preboot
The original "Planet of the Apes," which came out back in 1968, was about an astronaut who traveled to a distant world ruled by super intelligent apes ... only to discover,...
- 8/1/2011
- by Scott Harris
- NextMovie
The Academy may consider this year's nominees the best of the best, but that doesn't mean they haven't made some stinkers in the past. Just like everyone else, actors have to pay their dues in crappy jobs before the good ones come along. So in preparation for Sunday's Academy Awards, let's celebrate five of the worst films that this year's Best Actress and Actor nominees have ever made—including not one, but two talking ape movies: 1. James Franco in The Ape: Franco likes to come off as a jack of all trades, but he should have fired himself from his own misbegotten 2005 feature—which he cowrote, directed and starred in—about a frustrated writer who moves into a nice apartment...
- 2/25/2011
- E! Online
Voltage Pictures has nabbed the international rights to the introspective actors’ piece Maladies starring Academy Award nominee James Franco (127 Hours, Rise of the Apes, Spiderman). Academy Award nominee Catherine Keener (The 40 Year Old Virgin, Into the Wild, Being John Malkovich), Academy Award nominee David Strathairn (The Whistleblower, The Bourne Ultimatum, L.A. Confidential), Emmy nominee Alan Cummings (X2, Spy Kids) and Fallon Goodson (Bff & Baby) co-star. The picture recently finished shooting in New York and is currently in post-production. Maladies follows three people struggling to coexist together in a little house in a beach town, separated and bonded by their mental illnesses from the rest of the world. Franco plays a former actor whose schizophrenia forces him to leave his craft and remain only a shell of his former self. Keener supports his the cross-dressing best friend whose struggle with her own gender identity precludes her from keeping the group together,...
- 2/4/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
James Franco said he'll likely take his next film as director The Broken Tower to Cannes. James Franco’s directorial debut was Fool’s Gold in 2005. Since then he has directed The Ape (2005, Tla Releasing) and Good Time Max (2007, IFC Films) which screened at Tribeca, Hollywood, Austin and Vancouver film festivals. Photo of James Franco by Peter Belsito...
- 1/23/2011
- Sydney's Buzz
In "127 Hours," James Franco runs the full gamut of emotions, from elation to despair to full-on delirium. The movie's hefty emotional stakes rest almost entirely on his performance—and he pulls it off beautifully, taking viewers through Ralston's harrowing journey with warmth, honesty, and a surprising amount of humor.And yet, one of Franco's greatest challenges occurred before he even stepped in front of the camera. After being sent an early draft of the script, he was slated to meet with filmmaker Danny Boyle ("Slumdog Millionaire"). Unfortunately, the actor didn't have quite enough time to do the preparation he wanted to. "I was in the middle of school," recalls Franco, who is currently enrolled in multiple graduate programs. "It was so much work, I was really stressed out, and even though it was a very short script—like, 80 pages-—I didn't read it as thoroughly as I should have." Needless to say,...
- 12/8/2010
- backstage.com
James Franco always seems to be finding ways to challenge himself. And while he’s been busy acting alongside a motion capture-suited Andy Serkis in Rise of the Apes, and out promoting his latest release, Danny Boyle’s excellent 127 Hours, he’s also just locked in a deal to option a controversial true-life memoir to adapt and direct.Franco’s production company, Rabbit Bandini, has shelled out to buy the rights to Stephen Elliott’s book The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism and Murder, which he may also end up starring in.Elliott’s book is not for the faint-hearted, since it chronicles his damaged childhood and tough young adulthood, which saw him succumb to substance abuse and an addiction to masochistic sex. And it kicks off with him believing his father was a possible murderer…If he gets it to the screen, it won’t be Franco...
- 9/30/2010
- EmpireOnline
20th Century Fox has signed James Franco to play the lead in Rise of the Apes, a 3D prequel to 1968’s Planet of the Apes using “photorealistic” CGI characters instead of costumed actors. The studio has already scheduled its release on June 24, 2011.
Franco will play a scientist in present day San Francisco performing genetic testing on apes to find a cure for Alzheimer’s. His test subject, Caesar, evolves, develops intelligence and speech, and becomes the leader of an ape rebellion struggling for control of the planet with Franco in the middle, according to Deadline.
Fox is working with Peter Jackson’s Weta to create the digital effects of the apes, which I suppose means dusting off the renderings used in the newest King Kong.
Meanwhile, the 32-year-old actor is also negotiating for the lead in Summit’s R-rated ensemble comedy Ricky Stanicky about a group of friends who blame...
Franco will play a scientist in present day San Francisco performing genetic testing on apes to find a cure for Alzheimer’s. His test subject, Caesar, evolves, develops intelligence and speech, and becomes the leader of an ape rebellion struggling for control of the planet with Franco in the middle, according to Deadline.
Fox is working with Peter Jackson’s Weta to create the digital effects of the apes, which I suppose means dusting off the renderings used in the newest King Kong.
Meanwhile, the 32-year-old actor is also negotiating for the lead in Summit’s R-rated ensemble comedy Ricky Stanicky about a group of friends who blame...
- 5/21/2010
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
Performance artist James Franco is a very busy, busy, busy man. He recently completed a documentary about hosting “Saturday Night Live,” as well as production on Danny Boyle’s drama 127 Hours about mountain climber Aron Rolston who has to cut his arm off to live. Not to mention, he’s appearing in the following films: Howl, Eat Pray Love, and, Your Highness and not to mention, a second stint on “General Hospital”. Well, now add Fox’s prequel, Rise Of The Apes to that ever growing list.
Mike Fleming is reporting that Franco will play the scientist who through his genetic experiments leads to talking apes and well, the Planet Of The Apes. Rupert Wyatt will direct from a screenplay written by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver. Peter Jackson’s Weta will be handle the special effects. Fox has penciled a June 24th, 2011 release date for the film.
This isn’t...
Mike Fleming is reporting that Franco will play the scientist who through his genetic experiments leads to talking apes and well, the Planet Of The Apes. Rupert Wyatt will direct from a screenplay written by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver. Peter Jackson’s Weta will be handle the special effects. Fox has penciled a June 24th, 2011 release date for the film.
This isn’t...
- 5/21/2010
- by Douglas Reinhardt
- Movie Cultists
James Franco says he was willing to do just about anything to be a part of Milk, for which he has received his first Independent Spirit Award nomination. When he first got wind of the project, he emailed director Gus Van Sant. "I said, 'I'll play the pool cleaner or whatever,'" Franco remembers. "And he's really mellow and low-key, even in his emails, and he just wrote back, 'Yeah, cool, maybe we'll meet when you're in L.A.' We met and talked, and thank God he didn't give me the pool cleaner role. He let me play a pretty good role." In Van Sant's biopic, Franco portrays Scott Smith, longtime love of Harvey Milk (Sean Penn), the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California. The film depicts Milk's rise to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, his caring yet complicated relationship with Smith,...
- 12/11/2008
- by Sarah Kuhn
- backstage.com
- Probably most recognizable to audiences as Harry Osborn, son of Norman Osborn (Aka The Green Goblin) in Sam Rami’s blockbuster Spiderman franchise, James Franco (Sonny, The Great Raid, Annapolis) launched his career with his portrayal of James Dean in TNT’s biopic based on the movie icon’s short but legendary life (Franco’s performance earned him a Golden Globe award, as well as Emmy and Screen Actor’s Guild nominations). The breakthrough role also caught the interest of Robert De Niro, who asked Franco a play his son in City By the Sea. A talented filmmaker in his own right, Franco has also written and directed three films: Fool’s Gold, The Ape, and the upcoming Good Time Max. In writer/director Karen Moncrieff’s sophmore feature film outing The Dead Girl, a film in five episodes that revolves around the ripple effect of the lives surrounding
- 12/28/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
Savannah fest to honor Lumet, Falk
Sidney Lumet and Peter Falk have been named recipients of lifetime achievement awards at the eighth annual Savannah Film Festival. The festival, sponsored by the Savannah College of Art and Design, is scheduled for Oct. 29-Nov. 5. Natasha Richardson, who stars in the upcoming Merchant Ivory film The White Countess, has been tapped to accept the achievement in cinema award. James Franco is being honored for The Ape, a movie he wrote, directed and in which he stars. Buck Henry, who wrote The Graduate and directed Heaven Can Wait, is scheduled to talk about his films. Lumet, the recipient of the Honorary Oscar at this year's Academy Awards and whose latest film, Find Me Guilty, is due out this year, will receive his award during opening-night ceremonies. Falk, who stars in Paul Reiser's The Thing About My Folks, will receive his award Nov. 3.
- 9/1/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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