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AOL Renews MAKING A SCENE WITH JAMES FRANCO for Second Season

By: Apr. 28, 2015
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AOL announced today that its AOL Original Series MAKING A SCENE WITH JAMES FRANCO is back by popular demand for a second season. Starring Academy Award nominee James Franco, Making a Scene will turn classic TV moments on their head in a genre-bending, scene-melding, one of a kind digital comedy.

"We are excited to announce the return of MAKING A SCENE WITH JAMES FRANCO on AOL," said Dermot McCormack President of Video and AOL Studios. "James Franco is a one of a kind director, writer, actor, producer and poet who uses his talent to create a never before seen takes on some of the most recognized scenes in TV history."

MAKING A SCENE WITH JAMES FRANCO was born out of James Franco's love for movies and is back, but with a twist. Each episode of the new season will feature Franco and one or more fellow artists reimagining classic television shows for a digital audience. Throughout the 10-episode series his crew will reinvent old classics by swapping genres, characters and more. Produced by Rabbit Bandini Productions and Trium Entertainment.

All new episodes of MAKING A SCENE WITH JAMES FRANCO will stream on on.aol.com/makingascene.

ABOUT AOL

AOL (NYSE: AOL) is a media technology company with a mission to simplify the Internet for consumers and creators by unleashing the world's best builders of culture and code. As the 4th largest online property in the U.S., with approximately 200 million monthly consumers of its premium brands, AOL is at the center of disruption of how content is being produced, distributed, consumed and monetized by connecting publishers with advertisers on its global, programmatic content and advertising platforms. AOL's opportunity lies in shaping the future of the digitally connected world for decades to come. Follow @AolOriginals on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr for more upcoming news about MAKING A SCENE WITH JAMES FRANCO and other AOL Original Series.

ABOUT TRIUM ENTERTAINMENT

The executives at Trium have been at the cutting edge of creating innovative content for more than a decade. Together, they're responsible for developing, creating and showrunning over 1000 hours of programming, including unscripted blockbusters THE BIGGEST LOSER and Masterchef and scripted hits such as The Office, Ugly Betty, and The Tudors. That impressive list now includes BRIDE BY DESIGN and SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING NEW on TLC and the Emmy nominated children's program RECIPE REHAB on CBS. Highlights of their digital work now includes the groundbreaking real-time social media series Summerbreak as well as the AOL digital series Making a Scene with James Franco. Trium also has a long track record of successful partnerships with top advertisers and their agencies, including countless successful TV integrations and compelling custom series for partners such as Lexus, Ford, Delta, American Express, Subway, General Mills, Kraft, and Johnson & Johnson.

RABBIT BANDINI PRODUCTIONS

Rabbit Bandini Productions is a film production company which aims to support independent filmmakers with the creation of groundbreaking narrative, documentary and multimedia content. The company was founded in 2003 by actor/filmmaker James Franco and producer/writer/actor Vince Jolivette.

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. This year, THE ADDERALL DIARIES directed by Pamela Romanowsky, starring Franco, Ed Harris, Amber Heard and Christian Slater premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Completed last year, produced with Gus Van Sant is Justin Kelly's directorial adaptation of the biopic I AM MICHAEL, with Franco, Zachary Quinto and Emma Roberts premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Rabbit Bandini has multiple projects in various stages of development. Just wrapping in Atlanta, IN DUBIOUS BATTLE, based on the Steinbeck book of the same name, stars Vincent D'Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Nat Wolff, Selena Gomez along with Franco . Concurrently filming, THE LONG HOME and GOAT are in pre-production in Ohio. In post-production is ZEROVILLE directed by Franco, starring Megan Fox, Seth Rogen and Will Ferrell along with Franco. The company will be teaming up with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg on DISASTER ARTIST, Good Universe to finance.



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