Jennifer Garner made her first post-baby appearance last night at Cinemacon in Las Vegas. Jennifer was on hand to promote her new movie, ‘The Odd Life of Timothy Green”. Garner also received the award for “Female Star of the Year”.

Timothy Green is about a childless couple who find a magical child growing in their garden after planting a box full of wishes. Looks like a cute family movie.

Jennifer gave birth to son Samuel just two months ago. She looks great! I love the Dolce & Gabbana dress she’s wearing (even though I wish it were a bit longer).

Jennifer is looking pretty amazing for 40! She turned the big 4-0 on April 17th. Happy birthday Jen!

Below is the trailer for her new movie!

Also pictured: Mila Kunis and James Franco, who were also at the event.

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James Franco may look a little KFED on this production still from the film “Spring Breakers,” but he’s a heartbreaker and the Biebs knows it!

Celebitchy reports that Justin Bieber was MAJORLY concerned about any type of flirtation between longtime lady love Selena Gomez and hot actor Franco.  Well, I guess he should be-  Franco has said lots of positive things about Gomez in interviews and said that he’d definitely be “Team Gomez,” if anything were to happen between these star-crossed pop tarts.

Can Franco, 33, pull Gomez from her boy Biebs, 18?  Hard to say, when you’re hard partying on a film set, spring break style!

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James Franco gets into character on the set of “Spring Breakers” in Miami.

Also spotted on the set: Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens in their bright colored bikinis.

He’s hosted the Oscars, acted, directed, produced, taken a stab at art and gone back to college who knows how many times,and now James Franco will release an upcoming novel.

Franco, 33, has sold his first novel, Actors Anonymous, loosely based on his life, to Amazon Publishing, the New York Observer reports.

The book was acquired by Amazon fiction editor Ed Park, a founding editor of The Believer, whose move to Amazon in September caused a buzz in literary circles.

James isn’t a stranger to the literary world. He released a set of short stories called Palo Alto in June 2011.

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James Franco has taken some hits from critics this year due to having immersed himself into seemingly innocent (and sometimes bizarre)  projects that have included porn documentaries, James Dean art shows, publishing short stories, furthering his education, directing music videos and indie films, and posing for eccentric magazine covers.

And he wants you to know that he doesn’t car what you think, because people who usually have something to say about mainstream artists and films are “idiots.”

“I don’t think what I’m doing is confusing,” he tells Flaunt. “What is confusing is that I’m an actor in mainstream film and the people that usually comment on mainstream film are idiots, and they don’t try to think outside of their pop-culture commentaries. It’s so easy to criticize contemporary art from the outside: ‘Douglas Gordon slowed down Psycho so it’s 24-hours long? That’s easy! I can do that.’ That’s how the morons in the blogosphere try to critique my work. But the great thing about it is, is that their critiques are part of my work. I like that they are confused. I like that they make fun of what I’m doing. It’s a beautiful reflection of where our culture is at the moment.”

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James Franco really is the man who does it all! When he’s not acting or directing, he’s pursuing his PhD, making music videos – and soon he’ll be making porn! In a roundabout way.

During a recent episode of Conan, the actor confessed his obsession with porn. After making a homemade porn video with his girlfriend, he got interested in how porn actors really know what they’re doing.

“When I was young, I got a video camera and my girlfriend and I decided to film ourselves and watched it back and said, ‘Yeah, well, let’s never watch that again.’

“Those people in pornos, they are great performers; they’re not just doing it, they’re selling it to an audience.”

“They’re performing so that an audience can get turned on by that kinda thing.”

“My girlfriend and I didn’t know that, so it was just kinda like weird movement. … It was really boring.”

He went on to say he’s making a documentary about pornography, which will involve a San Francisco-based adult entertainment company.

“There’s this amazing facility in San Francisco,” he said, “They do everything in house, they build their props in house. It’s an incredible place.”

Which, most likely is the Mission’s own Kink.com.

According to IndieWire, a tweet from Kink.com actress Rain Degrey from June 26th read:

“Kink.com is all aflutter today because James Francois here shooting his new movie. All these girls want to f**k him! lol.”

The tweet was deleted shortly thereafter.

A documentary about porn would be really interesting… if they could steer away from it turning into a documentary simply about porn. If they could go behind the scenes and find out what’s going on in the actors minds – I think it could be a really interesting topic.

Would you watch it?

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The Oscars aired five months ago, but actor James Franco is still upset about the evening, and the grief he’s been given ever since.

“It’s hard to talk about because it’s like assigning blame — not a fun thing to do,” Franco told Playboy Magazine. “For three or four weeks we shot the promos and the little film that played in the opening. In the last week, when we really started focusing on the script for the live show and did a run-through, I said to the producer, ‘I don’t know why you hired me, because you haven’t given me anything. I just don’t think this stuff’s going to be good.’ ”

Franco insisted that Oscar producers were the one who came up with the idea of having him walk on stage dressed as Marilyn Monroe, and he hated the idea – from the beginning. “I was so pissed about that I was deliberately going to fall onstage and hopefully my dress would fall off or something — they couldn’t blame that one me; I was in high heels. The plan had been that I was going to sing as Cher and then Cher was going to come out onstage; that got axed when Cher and the song from Burlesque weren’t nominated. I told them, ‘Look, this is the thing people are going to talk about, the images they will take away from the show.’ ”

James goes on to explain that once he realized no one was listening to his complaints, he just decided to go with the flow. “I just didn’t want to fight anymore,” he explained, noting that, “Me in drag is not funny.”

“I was going with their program; I wanted to do the material they gave me, not be one of the many cooks doing the writing. There were a lot of cooks who shouldn’t have been cooking, but were allowed to. There were some cooks my manager tried to bring in, like Judd Apatow, who wrote some very funny stuff that wasn’t used.”

Still, for all the subsequent fallout and criticism, immediately following the show, Franco said that the feedback was nothing but great, with the telecast’s producer even giving him a hug and informing him, “Steve Spielberg just told me it was the best Oscars ever!”

This despite his seemingly low-energy performance, which Franco explained was all part of his master plan and most definitely not his way of showing that he “wasn’t into it or was too cool for it.”

“I thought, ‘OK, Anne is going the enthusiastic route. I’ve been trained as an actor to respond to circumstances, to the people I’m working with, and not force anything.’ So I thought I would be the straight man and she could be the other, and that’s how I was trying to do those lines. I felt kind of trapped in that material. I felt, ‘This is not my boat. I’m just a passenger, but I’m going down and there’s no way out.’ “

Gotta give it to the guy – it was obvious during the show that he wasn’t given any good material. He knew it – and we knew it. It was painful to watch him onstage!

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