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Rabbit Bandini Productions

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Rabbit Bandini Productions
Company typePrivate
IndustryFilm, television
Founded2003
HeadquartersBurbank, California, U.S.
Key people

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] The logo consists of a crudely drawn rabbit as well as the company name.

Works

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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

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Film

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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

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Year Title
2017–2019 The Deuce

References

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  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. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
  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. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014. 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.
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