Rabbit Bandini Productions

  • James Franco
  • Vince Jolivette

Rabbit Bandini Productions is a film and television production company founded in 2003 by actors/filmmakers James Franco and Vince Jolivette. The name comes from combining the titular hero from John Updike's Rabbit tetralogy with the hero of John Fante's Ask the Dust, Arturo Bandini.[1]

Works

Recent credits include director Gia Coppola's drama Palo Alto and Franco's directorial adaptations of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy's Child of God and Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and The Sound and The Fury premiering at the 2014 Venice Film Festival.[2]

Rabbit Bandini Productions has multiple projects in various stages of development. In production, In Dubious Battle, based on the Steinbeck book of the same name.[3] The Adderall Diaries directed by Pamela Romanowsky, starring Franco, Ed Harris, Amber Heard and Christian Slater.[4]

Completed in 2015 was Justin Kelly's directorial adaptation of the biopic I Am Michael, with Franco, Zachary Quinto and Emma Roberts and Zeroville directed by Franco, starring Megan Fox, Seth Rogen and Will Ferrell along with Franco.[5][6] The company teamed up with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg on The Disaster Artist, which is financed by Good Universe.[7] In 2015, the company also produced "Actors Anonymous",[8][9] a film funded by Sara Von Kienegger, in conjunction with students and the USC Film School.

Filmography

Film

Year Title
TBA Camp
Kill the Czar
The Long Home
Poster Cellar
2019 Zeroville
2018 The Pretenders
Future World
2017 I Think You're Totally Wrong
The Disaster Artist
2016 Actors Anonymous
King Cobra
L.A. Series
2015 The Snow Men
The Ultimate Evil
The Adderall Diaries
I Am Michael
Yosemite
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
A Walk in Winter
Black Dog, Red Dog
Holy Land
In Dubious Battle
Killing Animals
Lockheed
The Labyrinth
2014 Gucci Sunglasses
Guests
Memoria
2013 Bukowski
Child of God
Palo Alto
As I Lay Dying
The Director: An Evolution in Three Acts
Interior. Leather Bar.
Kink
Acting Class
2012 The Color of Time
Playhouse
The Letter
Spring Breakers
The Iceman
Maladies
Hart Crane: An Exegesis
Undergrads: South
Melody Set Me Free
Undergrads North
2011 Sal
2010 The Broken Tower
Masculinity & Me
The Clerk's Tale
Shadows & Lies
Saturday Night
Herbert White
Howl
In Search of Ted Demme
2009 The Feast of Stephen
2007 Good Time Max
2005 Fool's Gold
The Ape

Television

Year Title
2017–2019 The Deuce

References

  1. ^ "What is James Franco Reading?". April 13, 2017.
  2. ^ Tartaglione, Nancy (September 1, 2014). "Hot Venice Clip: James Franco's 'The Sound And The Fury'". Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  3. ^ Kroll, Justin (January 30, 2015). "James Franco Assembles Cast for Adaptation of 'In Dubious Battle'". Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  4. ^ "The Adderall Diaries - Tribeca Film Festival". Tribeca.
  5. ^ Debruge, Peter (January 25, 2015). "Sundance Film Review: 'I Am Michael'". Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  6. ^ "Casting Net: Megan Fox, James Franco lead 'Zeroville'". Entertainment Weekly. October 24, 2014. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  7. ^ "James Franco Plans To Enter 'The Room' With Behind-The-Scenes Movie". MTV. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  8. ^ "Actors Anonymous". January 1, 2000. Retrieved January 10, 2017 – via IMDb.
  9. ^ "CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos". Retrieved January 10, 2017.

External links

  • Rabbit Bandini Productions on IMDb
  • Rabbit Bandini Productions Facebook
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