EXCLUSIVE: Cloud9 Studios has finished filming Love Meets in the Sunshine , the elevated, character-driven comedy starring Academy Award nominee James Franco ( 127 Hours, The Disaster Artist ), Cloud 9 co-founder Nick Antonyan and KISS rocker Gene Simmons ( Runaway ).

Love Meets in the Sunshine was written and directed by Christian Guiton and based on a story by Antonyan and Guiton. After a chance encounter, a terminally ill ball of sunshine (Franco) talks a grumpy drifter (Antonyan) into driving him across the desert to meet a maybe-real doctor (Forrie J. Smith). What should be a quick trip becomes a wild, chaotic and heartwarming ride that changes them in ways neither saw coming.

Nicky Whelan ( The Wedding Ringer ), Forrie J. Smith ( Yellowstone ,) and Quinton Aaron (

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