The Disaster Artist, James Franco’s adaptation of the book that delved into the making of the infinitely beguiling trainwreck The Room, received a largely positive response from audiences and critics. (We gave it a C.) One fan of the film was Tommy Wiseau, the man behind The Room, who loved the film despite having…
Like everyone else these days, late-night hosts (and their bookers) are constantly on the alert for the next high-profile entertainment figure accused of sexual abuse, harassment, or general creepiness. For example, Stephen Colbert and his Late Show staff had time back in November to ax a scheduled appearance by Louis…
Variety reports that The New York Times has canceled an upcoming speaking event centered on actor and director James Franco, in light of questions raised about his attitudes and behaviors toward women in the wake of this weekend’s Golden Globes. Franco was originally scheduled to give one of the paper’s TimeTalks…
Fourteen years after opening—for two whole weeks—in a handful of very confused Los Angeles theaters, Tommy Wiseau’s cult phenomenon The Room will finally have its day in cinemas nationwide. That’s courtesy of theatrical event programmer Fathom, which announced this week that it’ll be hosting a one-night release of the…
Tommy Wiseau, the star and creator of The Room, has been surprisingly busy in the past couple years, at work writing, producing, and directing his own web sitcom, The Neighbors. Now he’s reuniting with his Room co-star Greg Sestero for a new project, Best F(r)iends. Wiseau stars in the film, while Sestero wrote and…
Coco dominated the U.S. box office for a third week in a row this past weekend, proving that Pixar didn’t really need to put that interminable Frozen short in front of it to get American audiences to go see a movie about a Latinx family. The Day of the Dead-themed fantasy brought in an additional $34 million as it…
The Disaster Artist, the film adaptation of Greg Sestero’s memoir about the making of The Room, paints its subject, Tommy Wiseau, in an unexpectedly warm light. Given that The Room has been ridiculed for years and heralded as one of the worst films of all time, it’s a welcome surprise for Wiseau. In the video above,…
The past few years have seen Tommy Wiseau’s opus, The Room, discover unexpected relevancy, culminating in this year’s The Disaster Artist, the film adaptation of Greg Sestero’s memoir about the making of the film. We met up with stars Paul Scheer and Ari Graynor at the premiere of The Disaster Artist and found out the…
Paul Scheer loves bad movies. He spends a large portion of his time rating and reviewing them on his podcast How Did This Get Made? But there is only one bad movie that tops his list: Tommy Wiseau’s The Room. At the premiere for The Disaster Artist, in which he co-stars, we talked to Scheer about his love for the…
James Franco is very, very into playing The Room’s Tommy Wiseau, not just in The Disaster Artist, for which he’s receiving raves, but also out in the wild. Nary a late-night interview has gone by without Franco dipping into the voice at least once, and if you stick around after the credits for the film you’ll see him…
The past few years have seen Tommy Wiseau’s opus, The Room, discover unexpected relevancy, culminating in this year’s The Disaster Artist, the film adaptation of Greg Sestero’s memoir about the making of the film. But why did Sestero and Wiseau entrust Franco to earnestly tell the story of making the most famous bad…
The Room director and star Tommy Wiseau’s background has long been shrouded in mystery, from his birthplace to the source of his fortune. James Franco, even after directing and starring in a movie about the man, still sees Wiseau as an enigma. On the red carpet for The Disaster Artist, we spoke with Franco about the…
The past few years have seen Tommy Wiseau’s opus, The Room, discover unexpected relevancy, culminating in this year’s The Disaster Artist, the film adaptation of Greg Sestero’s memoir about the making of the film. Director and star James Franco spoke with us at the premiere of The Disaster Artist to tell us why he…
The Disaster Artist opens with a series of celebrity talking heads attempting to explain their delight and obsession with the cult movie The Room. Their affection is real, but so is the subtext for anyone already familiar with The Room and its bizarre writer-director Tommy Wiseau: These people are expressing…
Last week’s No. 1, the Pixar animated film Coco, retained its top spot this weekend, bringing in another $26.1 million, while No. 2
Justice League ($16.6 million) and No. 3 Wonder ($12.5 million) similarly kept their places. Much of the rest of the Top 10 was filled with similar wide-release holdovers, including Thor:…
The Disaster Artist, James Franco’s film adaptation of a book about the making of a movie, opens tomorrow in limited release before expanding worldwide next Friday. In it, Franco plays Tommy Wiseau, a bulging, vampiric millionaire whose desire to become famous resulted in The Room, a film many consider to be the worst…
We’re back with another edition of Film Club. This week, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky sit down to discuss The Disaster Artist, the James Franco-directed tribute to Tommy Wiseau and the most famous bad movie of all time, The Room.
So many movies, so little time. Every week brings a new crop of them, opening in multiplexes and arthouse theaters across the nation, and arriving in increasingly high volumes on streaming platforms like Netflix. How’s a voracious moviegoer to keep up? That’s where The A.V. Club comes in. The first week of every…
If there was ever a behind-the-scenes story that begged to made into a movie of its own, then it’s the making of the mind-boggling cult classic The Room, a uniquely American accident of money, incompetence, and ego. The magnum opus of Tommy Wiseau, an eccentric and paranoid Polish immigrant with the looks of a B-movie…
The Disaster Artist, due for release on December 1, is a (supposedly) good movie about a book about the making of a bad movie—namely, Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, which many consider to be the worst film ever made. It’s basically what Tim Burton’s Ed Wood was to Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space. And it’s bound to inspire…
