| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Film, television |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Headquarters | Burbank, California, U.S. |
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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
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2021 | The Long Home |
| 2019 | Zeroville |
| 2018 | The Pretenders |
| 2018 | Future World |
| 2017 | I Think You're Totally Wrong |
| 2017 | The Disaster Artist |
| 2017–19 | The Deuce |
| 2016 | Actors Anonymous |
| 2016 | King Cobra |
| 2015 | The Snow Men |
| 2015 | The Ultimate Evil |
| 2015 | The Adderall Diaries |
| 2015 | I Am Michael |
| 2015 | Yosemite |
| 2015 | Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha |
| 2015 | A Walk in Winter |
| 2015 | Black Dog, Red Dog |
| 2015 | Holy Land |
| 2015 | In Dubious Battle |
| 2015 | Killing Animals |
| 2015 | Lockheed |
| 2015 | The Labyrinth |
| 2014 | Gucci Sunglasses |
| 2014 | Guests |
| 2014 | Memoria |
| 2013 | Bukowski |
| 2013 | Child of God |
| 2013 | Palo Alto |
| 2013 | As I Lay Dying |
| 2013 | The Director: An Evolution in Three Acts |
| 2013 | Interior. Leather Bar. |
| 2013 | Kink |
| 2013 | Acting Class |
| 2012 | The Color of Time |
| 2012 | Playhouse |
| 2012 | The Letter |
| 2012 | Spring Breakers |
| 2012 | The Iceman |
| 2012 | Maladies |
| 2012 | Hart Crane: An Exegesis |
| 2012 | Undergrads: South |
| 2012 | Melody Set Me Free |
| 2012 | Undergrads North |
| 2011/I | Sal |
| The Broken Tower | |
| 2010 | Masculinity & Me |
| 2010 | The Clerk's Tale |
| 2010 | Shadows & Lies |
| 2010 | Saturday Night |
| 2010 | Herbert White |
| 2010 | Howl |
| 2010 | In Search of Ted Demme |
| 2009 | The Feast of Stephen |
| 2007 | Good Time Max |
| 2005 | Fool's Gold |
| 2005 | The Ape |
References
- ↑ "What is James Franco Reading?". April 13, 2017.
- ↑ Tartaglione, Nancy (September 1, 2014). "Hot Venice Clip: James Franco's 'The Sound And The Fury'". Retrieved January 10, 2017.
- ↑ Kroll, Justin (January 30, 2015). "James Franco Assembles Cast for Adaptation of 'In Dubious Battle'". Retrieved January 10, 2017.
- ↑ "The Adderall Diaries - Tribeca Film Festival". Tribeca.
- ↑ Debruge, Peter (January 25, 2015). "Sundance Film Review: 'I Am Michael'". Retrieved January 10, 2017.
- ↑ "Casting Net: Megan Fox, James Franco lead 'Zeroville'". Entertainment Weekly. October 24, 2014. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
- ↑ "James Franco Plans To Enter 'The Room' With Behind-The-Scenes Movie". MTV. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
- ↑ "Actors Anonymous". January 1, 2000. Retrieved January 10, 2017 – via IMDb.
- ↑ "CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos". Retrieved January 10, 2017.