James Edward Franco was born on 19 April 1978 in Palo Alto, California, U.S. He is an American actor, director, screenwriter, author, producer, teacher and poet. His main role was seen in short-lived cult hit television program called Freaks and Geeks. In the role for the television biological film, James Dean in the year 2001, he got Golden Globe award. He is known for his roles in big hits like pineapple Express in the year 2008, Milk in the year 2008, Rise of the Planet of the Apes in the year 2011, Oz the Great and Powerful in the year 2013 and This is the End in the year 2013. He is famous for his work all over the world. He has won many prizes for his work. He has Academy awards, Golden Globe awards and received a lot of appreciation and rewards from all over the world. He has a huge fan list. Not only is this, he is a very popular face in the film industry and achieved an international fame with the portrayls of the character harry Osborn in the film Spider Man triology. He is a good philanthropist and loves to donate his money to a good kind. He is a filmmaker too and it is reported that he earns a lot of money through the films only.

Life:

James was born to mother, Betsy Lou who is a writer and actress and father, Douglas Eugene Franco who ran a Silicon Valley business. His father was of Portuguese and Swedish descent. While her mother was from Jewish descent. Talking about his education, he is graduated from Palo Alto High School in the year 1996. When he was young he was attracted by the idea of becoming marine zoologist but somehow he wanted to become an actor from the deep of the heart. He was also enrolled in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as an English major but he was a college drop out and left the college in the first year only. Later he attended the Colombia University’s MFA writing program, New York University Tisch School of the arts for the filmmaking and the Brooklyn College for the fiction writing and for poetry, he attended the low-residency MFA program for writers at North Carolina’s Warren Wilson College. In the year 2010, he received his MFA form Columbia. Moreover, he is a Phd student at the Yale University. Talking about his personal life, he was named as the face of Gucci’s men’s fragrance line in the year 2008. He dated many beautiful girls one of them is Maria Sokoloff whom he met on the set of Whatever it takes and dated her till five years. Later on he comes in relationship with Ahha O’Reilly till 2011. It was also reported that he slept with a 17 year old girl whom he texted regularly.

Wealth:

James Franco is a rich multi-millionaire in the Hollywood. His net worth is $22 million .His main source of income id Movies. It is reported that, he earns a total of $2 to $5 million per year in the average basis. The costliest movie he has ever done in life is The Company, for which his renumeration is $2,00,000. He has also worked in high-grossing flicks in like 127 Hours and Eat Pray Love. He has a high profile lifestyle. Talking about his assets, he owns a big mansions a, expensive cars and he likes to spend his money on his lifestyle. He is freak in using brands. He owns a Apple iPod Earphones which features that it fit easily in the eras and the sound quality is extra-ordinary whether being in the balcony or in the trademill. Also, he owns a Reebok Men’s Club C Sneaker for his movie premiers. These Reebok shoes provides excellent comfort and the fabric of soft leather with cushioned terry cloth on the movies and at the tennis court gives different look and takes the attention of everyone. Next he uses Dolce and Gabbana DG4113 Sunglasses which are of Italian origin and comes in brown shades with plastic frames. It features comfortable nose pads and spring hinge. Moreover, he also keeps Ray-Ban 4125 Cats 5000 Sunglasses. He dons this sunglasses which is an aviator sun-glass with a retro look specially designed for the sports enthusiast. Moreover, its unique style comes in the form of the retro pin hinges which comes in different colors.

Philanthropy:

James is very kind hearted man and he likes to spend a part of his money in philanthropy and believes in helt

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Writer, filmmaker, director, producer, film editor.

Born on 13 August 1899 in Leytonstone, a part of London, England, Alfred Hitchcock was the youngest of three children born to William Hitchcock, a greengrocer and poulterer and Emma Jane Hitchcock. He led a lonely and sheltered childhood which was made worse by his obesity. This would go on to deeply affect his psyche as he grew older. It also led to him being rejected by the army at the age 15 during the First World War. However, he did not allow this to deter him and as a young man, he signed up to a cadet regiment of the Royal Engineers in 1917. His military stint was limited to theoretical briefings, weekend drills and various other exercises.

                                                                                                            A young Alfred Hitchcock

He eventually left St. Ignatius to study at the London Country Council School of Engineering and  Navigation in Poplar, London. Upon leaving, he found work as a draftsman and advertising designer with a cable company called Henley’s. This would help him make his first steps into the world of creativity. The company’s in-house publication The Henley Telegraph, was founded in the year 1919, to which he would often contribute short articles. Eventually, he became one of its most prolific contributors. His first piece was “Gas” and it was published in the first issue of the company’s publication. The story narrates the experience of a young woman who images she is being assaulted one night in Paris- only for it to later be revealed that it was a hallucination at the dentist’s chair, caused by an anesthetic he used. Another very short, but remarkable contribution by Hitchcock to the publication was a piece titled “Fedora.” It was published in 1921 and it had a strikingly accurate description of his to-be wife Alma Reville; whom interestingly enough, he had not met at that point of time.

FILM CAREER

During his stint at Henley’s, he began to take interest in the nuances of photography. He began his work in the field of film production as a title card designer for the London branch of what later would be more famously known as Paramount pictures. He then received a full time job at Islington Studios, designing titles for silent films. It was from here on wards, that his rise began, from title designer, to film director, producer and editor in a period of five years.

In 1925, Hitchcock went on to direct his first film, making movies that belong to the thriller genre which would soon be known world over. It was a silent film that went by the name “The pleasure garden.” He went on to make many more such silent films. Some of them include The Lodger (1926), Downhill (1927), Easy Virtue (1927), The Ring, The Farmer’s wife (1927), Champagne (1928), The Manxman (1929), Blackmail (1929). By then, Hitchcock had made his first Talkie. Though “Blackmail” was initially produced as a silent film, it was reproduced as a talkie film.

Hitchcock went on to direct about 53 films in the three genres- the silent film, the black and white and colour. Notably, he delivered movies that would go on to become epics in their own right in each category. Hitchcock believed that silent film was the purest form of film. At this point in time onwards, he began pursuing themes such as sexual obsession and characters who were wrongly persecuted for others’ crimes. These themes would prevail throughout his career, with Hitchcock experimenting with various technical aspects of films that would later be used frequently in cinema.

EXPERIMENTS WITH CINEMA

Hitchcock’s earliest experiment in cinema was when he shot thee 1948 thriller Rope. It was not well received by the critics, but it went on to be one of his most legendary movies. During the course of filming Rope, Hitchcock intended for the film to have the effect of one long continuous take, but the cameras at that point in time were not so advanced. They could hold no more than 1000 feet of 35 mm film. As a result, each take used up to a whole roll of film and lasts up to 10 minutes. This caused the movie to move at a slow pace, causing the audience to build up guilt and share the feelings of the antagonist until the movie draws to an end. Many takes end with a dolly shot to a featureless surface (such as the back of a character’s jacket), with the following take beginning at the same point by zooming out. The entire film consists of only 11 shots.

Hitchcock was also famous for the creative special effects used throughout his movies. His experiments were mostly successful, though some of them were not well received by the critics of that time. It was one of these trysts with experimentation that led him to produce his most iconic film Psycho (1960). By this time, Hitchcock had began to comfortably work with colour film and sound, but Psycho was a film that he purposefully chose to shoot in black and white. The concepts he centred his movie around were indeed, controversial- so controversial that Paramount pictures were appalled at the concept of a movie being based on the real life story of Wisconsin murderer Ed Gein. Paramount pictures refused to provide the budget that they normally would have (His previous movie, North by Northwest [1959] was granted a generous budget of $3,101,000.) Hitchcock however, was adamant upon pursuing this project and he decided to finance 60% of the budget himself with the help of his own Shamley studios, shooting the movie in Universal studios. Hitchcock purchased the rights to the novel (written by Robert Bloch based on the life story of Ed Gein) for $9500 and had it taken off bookshelves across the country, in order to preserve the suspense.

An old film poster advertising Hitchcock’s Psycho

The infamous shower murder scene of Psycho caused the censor board authorities to do a double take. It was the first time that a toilet was being shown in American cinema. The following shower murder scene is no less. The scene had to be shot over a period of one week, and the scene itself was composed of 90 shots; which were captured from 70 different camera angles. This took a week to shoot; the entire movie itself took only 6 weeks to complete.

A still from the iconic shower scene in ‘Psycho’

One cannot talk about special effects without speaking about his classic favourite The Birds (1963). The movie is centred around technical strengths in the form of special effects that do not distract the viewer from the plot or the movie itself, yet adds intense shock value to the movie. The final shot of the movie involves the lead characters driving away from Bodega Bay (where it was shot; in San Francisco) as they are being closely watched by a flock of birds. This was the film’s trickiest shot as it was done with a combination of live trained birds, puppet birds and animated birds; with the car moving towards an extremely detailed matte painting as a backdrop. It was the trickiest shot in the movie as it was shot in a composite manner that blended 32 separate exposures, leading Hitchcock to call it “The most difficult single shot I’ve ever done.

A film poster advertising Hitchcock’s masterpiece ‘The Birds.’

A behind the scenes look into the shooting of the final scene of ‘The Birds’

In his next film, Vertigo (1959), Hitchcock used what would later be a very powerful effect which would later come to be popularly known as the Dolly zoom method. It was achieved by zooming in on a zoom lens in order to achieve the desired result- a successful portrayal of James Stewart’s supposed Vertigo- fear of heights.

The Vertigo effect, portrayed with the help of dolly zoom, in Hitchcock’s famous film, ‘Vertigo’

PERSONAL LIFE

Hitchcock was a frugal man, probably because of his strict upbringing. When he died, he left millions of dollars in stocks and bonds, two magnificent estates in California- one in Santa Cruz and one in Bel Air to his family who survived him- Alma Reville and his daughter Patricia Hitchcock.

Years later(2012 to be precise), famous pen manufacturer Mont Blanc decided to pay a tribute to the iconic filmmaker with the help of their pens. Two of them were introduced-

1. The limited edition 300

As a tribute to the critically acclaimed filmmaker, this particular pen features 925 sterling silver rings with 53 hatch marks that represent the years he spent as a part of his film-making career. It is available at Mont Blanc boutiques throughout the world and is priced at £2,325.

The Montblanc 80- paying a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock’s first technicolor movie “Rope”

2. The limited edition 80

This pen is created exclusively with 750 white gold and just 80 of these pens were produced. They retail at £17,900 per piece. It features a dramatic swirls, said to be a tribute to the famous Alfred Hitchcock phenomenon ‘The Vertigo effect’, complete with re; reminiscent of blood stains. The clip of the pen is shaped like the knife used by the killer of his famous movie Psycho and it is encrusted with diamonds.

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Profession: Stand-up comedian, actor, director, screenwriter, voice artist, comedian

Jonathan Kolia “Jon” Favreau is an American actor, director, screenwriter, voice artist and comedian. He is widely recognised for his directing work on films like ‘Iron Man’, ‘Iron Man 2’, ‘Elf’ and ‘Zathura’. He has also made appearances on several television serials like ‘Deep Impact’, ‘Swingers’, ‘Friends’ and ‘The King of Queens’. He is an exceptional performer which has helped him to gain appreciation from audiences and critics alike.

Early Life and Background:

John Favreau was born on October 19, 1966 in Queens, New York. He is the only child of school teachers Madeleine and Charles Favreau. He did his schooling from the Bronx High School of Science and then attended the Queen College. He also worked on Wall Street. By the mid 1980s he had located himself in choicago to take part on comedy and improve scene there. He performed at several Chicago improvisational theatres, including the ImprovOlympic and the Improv Institute.

However, his hopes of becoming the next fat funny guy were not fulfilled and he ended up washing dishes in Chicago’s restaurants. Eventually, he made his way into Hollywood by getting a minor role in the football comedy ‘Rudy’as Sean Astin’s chubby friend. He used the money earned from this part in relocating to Los Angeles and did small parts in ‘Batman Forever’ and ‘Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle’. Unfortunately both parts were left on the cutting room floor. The real glory came at Favreau’s doorsteps with the 1996’s film Swingers and John has never looked back ever since.

He is married to Joya Tillem, a physician, and they have three children, a son, Max and two daughters, Madeleine and Brighton Rose.

The Acting Career:

‘Swingers’ released in 1996, was the story of a group of rat pack-obsessed, out-of-work actors slumming amiably through life in Los Angeles. It was scripted by John himself, after his father gifted him screenwriting software. This comedy movie was one of the year’s biggest sleeper hits and made both Favreau and his real life close friend, Vince Vaughn, big stars. This changed the course of Favreau’s career completely.

He then got offers to work on various films and television series thereafter. He appeared in several films throughout the 1990s and early 2000s including Deep Impact (1998), Love & Sex (2000) and Something Gotta Give (2003). Also, he made appearances on movies like Very bad things (1998) and the much hyped hit romantic comedy,The Break Up (2006). He also appeared in the third season of the popular television sitcom ‘Friends’ where he played Pete, a computer mogul romantically linked to Monica (Courteney Cox). He then appeared in the 1990 ShowTime biopic ‘Rocky Marciano’. Favreau also made a guest appearance in Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show.

The Directorial Debut:

John began his directing career in the year 2001 with the movie ‘Made’, a Mafioso comedy in which he once again appeared with Vaughn. Then in November 2003, Favreau made the holiday hit comedy ‘Elf’ starring Will Ferrell and James Caan. Two years later, John came with another big screen movie, Zathura. It was a fantasy film which showcased a magical board game and its far-flinging effects. All this time, John continued his TV work as well as continued to be the producer as well as host of ‘Dinner for Five’, an IFC program which premiered in 2002. The show was nominated for a 2005 Emmy Award for outstanding nonfiction series. Also, in the same year he had a small part in ‘Something’s Gotta Give’.

The Major Breakthrough:

Favreau’s biggest career achievement so far has been the Marvel Comics adaptation ‘Iron Man’, the highly anticipated first film produced under a fresh deal between Paramount and Marvel. Iron Man was a major success among moviegoers and paved the way for the 2010 sequel Iron Man 2 that Favreau also helmed. The two films combined together earned more than $1 billion at the box office. Though Iron Man 2 was equally successful but it was not as well received as its previous part. He then directed the sci-fi based Cowboys & Aliens (2011), starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford.

He also served as an executive producer on the blockbusting flick The Avengers (2012) and more recently Iron Man 3 (2013). He was originally an indie film maker, but now has entered the mainstream visibility into the millennium. He is enjoying character stardom, besides earning notice as a writer/producer/director even after two decades in the show biz.

Quotes:

• “I thought I would be working on Wall Street my whole life. It was the go-go ’80s; there were yellow ties. It was just an exciting moment. And although I wasn’t involved in the trading side of things, I was still around that culture, and I ultimately decided it just wasn’t for me.”
• I’ve cut myself out… I’ve cut scenes out that I was in and that’s when you realize that you’ve got to make the best movie you can.

Some Big earnings:

$12 million: Iron Man 2 (back-end for directing and producing, based on worldwide gross of $627 million, and share of DVD and pay-TV revenue)
$10 million: Cowboys & Aliens (fee for directing and producing)
$2 million: Older film revenue

John has made a lot of money with his hits like the Iron Man series and Cowboys & Aliens. recently in 2014, he got the number one position on People with Money’s top 10 highest paid actors list in combined earnings. John is a car lover too and owns a Tesla model S in silver colour.

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