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The 35-year-old American has already played poets Allen Ginsberg and Hart Crane .

If you thought you were excited to see This Is the End before, just wait until you've checked out this latest red band spot for the flick that's full of everything we horror fans love.

So to mark this momentous occasion, we've decided to look back on 10 other film franchises that could have gotten by without their third films.

Longtime Plan B Entertainment exec Jeremy Kleiner has been promoted to co-president of the production banner, which is run by Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner.

Director James Franco poses for photographers during a photo call for the film As I Lay Dying at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 20, 2013.

When the world is drawing to a close you really need to prepare if possible. That's exactly what our heroes from the horror comedy This Is the End do in this latest clip! Oh, and we get some confessional action too.

In a tailored Gucci suit and a scruffy short beard, James Franco was sitting on a dock behind the Grand Palais of the Cannes Film Festival, his mirrored aviator sunglasses reflecting the yachts nearby.

Seth Rogen co-wrote and co-directed the 2013 summer comedy "This Is the End," in which he also stars.

In this photo taken Sunday, May 19, 2013, James Franco and Ahna O'Reilly at the Art of Elysium Party, in Cannes, southern France.

Can James Franco's movie become the first since 'Tyson' in 2008 to win the Un Certain Regard competition at Cannes? As I Lay Dying , written, directed and starring James Franco, is aiming to become the first American movie to win the Un Certain Regard award at the Cannes Film Festival since 2008's Tyson documentary.

Snoop Dogg's latest album, the reggae-heavy Reincarnated , was recently slapped with a Worst New Music label from SPIN.

Candice Glover, a soul singer from rural South Carolina, was named "American Idol" on Thursday and become the first female singer to win the television singing competition since 2007.

To say that we're looking forward to the upcoming apocalypse horror comedy This Is the End is a bit of an understatement.

Can James Franco's movie become the first since 'Tyson' in 2008 to win the Un Certain Regard competition at Cannes? As I Lay Dying - which competes for the Un Certain Regard award at the Cannes Film Festival this month - is very much James Franco 's baby.

James Franco thinks one of his movies "sucks" and is sharing his criticism in a recent interview.

Middle-school student Marina stands at the gate of the school in Oxnard, Calif., where an eighth-grade student shot a gay classmate twice in the back of the head.

A new behind-the-scenes featurette for Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg 's directorial debut This Is the End has landed online.

Is James Franco obsessed with Seth Rogen? The real Franco may not be this enamored by his "Pineapple Express" co-star, but his "This Is the End" character, who happens to be an exaggerated version of himself, definitely is.

The first trailer for James Franco 's adaptation of the William Faulkner novel As I Lay Dying has arrived.

Emilia and James both attended the Frieze art fair at Randall's Island in New York on Saturday and people spotted looking rather smitten.