Rabbit Bandini Productions


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

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 (2014 film)|The Sound and The Fury] premiering at the 2014 Venice Film Festival.
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. The [Adderall Diaries (film)|The Adderall Diaries] directed by Pamela Romanowsky, starring Franco, Ed Harris, Amber Heard and Christian Slater.
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. The company teamed up with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg on The Disaster Artist, which is financed by Good Universe. In 2015, the company also produced "Actors Anonymous", a film funded by Sara Von Kienegger, in conjunction with students and the USC Film School.

Filmography

Film

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

Television

YearTitle
2017–2019The Deuce