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Newswire || BY Jen Yamato || 06 03 2011 3:00 PM

Watch James Franco Menacingly Eat a Sandwich in Indie Crime Drama Shadows & Lies

Gentleman-thug enforcer Martin Donovan has been sent to bring loner James Franco to his boss, slick gangster Josh Lucas, in NYU professor Jay Anania's indie drama Shadows & Lies. But Franco's eating a sandwich, and you don't want to bother Franco when he's eating a sandwich. "Are you muscling me?" asks Franco's William Vincent. "You'd know if I was," replies Donovan. Watch Movieline's exclusive clip after the jump.

Newswire || BY Jen Yamato || 04 18 2011 8:20 PM

Winona Ryder, James Franco Set for Mind-Warping Drama The Stare

An artist struggles with her latest work, haunted by paranoid visions to the point that she questions her sanity. Is it just us, or does Winona Ryder's next film, The Stare, sound a little -- okay, a lot -- like her last film, Black Swan? Fine. Black Swan didn't also have James Franco portraying some sort of performer. That doesn't sound familiar, either.