Tommy Wiseau Voices An Intergalactic Bounty Hunter In The Animated Pilot...
Tommy Wiseau, auteur of the so-bad-it’s-great classic The Room, has a lot of projects in the pipeline; last we heard from him he had a trailer for a movie about a big shark that wasn’t yet financed,...
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‘Disaster Artist’ Actress Charlyne Yi Called James Franco ‘A Sexual Predator’...
Getty Image Actress and writer Charlyne Yi publicly criticized James Franco earlier in the week, and on Saturday she posted on Instagram to double down on her description of the actor and director as...
View ArticleTwelve Years Of ‘The Room’: Greg Sestero On ‘The Disaster Artist’
BookDrunk: The Disaster Artist It’s not uncommon for someone to try to capitalize on the success of a cult film with an accompanying book, but The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, The Greatest...
View ArticleBookDrunk Radio: ‘The Room’s Greg Sestero (And Michael Rousselet) On ‘The...
https://filmdrunk.podbean.com/mf/web/z67ufc/GregSestero_mixdown_6_17.mp3– Listen on the player above, or download as an mp3 here (right-click, save as). I wrote up part one of my massive Greg Sestero...
View Article‘Oh. Hi, Mark.’ Twelve Years Of ‘The Room’ With ‘Disaster Artist’ Author Greg...
I talked to Greg Sestero, aka Mark (“Oh, hi, Mark”) from The Room and author of The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, and Michael Rousselet, original The Room...
View ArticleSeth Rogen Is In Talks To Join James Franco’s Tommy Wiseau Movie
If you haven’t read Greg Sestero’s book about starring in The Room and his relationship with Hall of Fame oddball Tommy Wiseau, you should (you can also read or listen to my interview with him about...
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Oh Hi, Kate Upton! ‘The Disaster Artist’ Adds Model To Its Cast About ‘The Room’
Getty Image According to The Hollywood Reporter, model and actress Kate Upton has been added to the cast of James Franco’s The Disaster Artist, which chronicles the production of Tommy Wiseau’s...
View ArticleJames Franco Shares The First Look At Him As Tommy Wiseau From ‘The Disaster...
James Franco and his pals are bringing Tommy Wiseau’s The Room back to life on the screen, this time in an adaptation of The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero. The account of “the greatest bad movie of...
View ArticleAlison Brie Joins James Franco, Kate Upton In ‘The Disaster Artist’
In its first two weeks of release in 2003, The Room made all of $1,200. The approximate net worth of the cast of The Disaster Artist, about the making of Tommy Wiseau’s cult classic, is enough to buy...
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Exploring The High Concept World Of James Franco, Director
Getty Image Artistically, James Franco favors breadth over depth. His detractors accuse him of dilettantism, opting to half-ass many things instead of whole-assing one thing. A cursory scan of critical...
View ArticleJames Franco Might Actually Get An Oscar Nomination For His Movie About ‘The...
It’s one of those ideas that’s crazy enough to work: a biopic about one of the worst movies of all-time, directed by and starring James Franco. Well, it worked. The Disaster Artist, which depicts the...
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James Franco Directed His ‘The Room’ Biopic In The Unmistakable Voice Of...
Getty Image We’re months away from The Disaster Artist‘s December 1 release (and even further from its inevitable Oscar wins), but like The Room, the notoriously terrible movie (and production) it’s...
View ArticleOh Hai, James Franco As Tommy Wiseau In ‘The Disaster Artist’ Trailer
The buzz out of South by Southwest was true: James Franco is that good as Tommy Wiseau. Based on Greg Sestero’s book of the same name, The Disaster Artist is about the making of The Room, one of the...
View ArticleTommy Wiseau Is ‘99.9 Percent’ Sure He Approves Of James Franco’s ‘The...
Following a rapturous “work in progress” premiere at South by Southwest, A24 scheduled The Disaster Artist for a December 1 release date, right in the heart of awards season. Is James Franco’s loving...
View ArticleSix Films We Can’t Wait To See At The Toronto Film Festival
On Thursday, the Toronto International Film Festival starts, which also means that this is (along with the Venice Film Festival and Telluride) the official start of your prestige awards season. What...
View ArticleJames Franco’s ‘The Disaster Artist’ Gets A ‘Real Hollywood Movie’ Trailer
A rough cut of The Disaster Artist, James Franco’s surprisingly sincere and unsurprisingly very funny biopic about the making of Tommy Wiseau’s so-bad-it’s-great The Room, premiered at South by...
View Article‘The Disaster Artist’ Is A Total Delight, And ‘The Room’ Origin Story We Need
We reviewed The Disaster Artist from the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. With the film hitting theaters this weekend, we’re rerunning our review. Honestly, I could watch four more hours of...
View ArticleJames Franco’s ‘The Disaster Artist’ Billboard Is A Tribute To ‘The Room’
Despite looking like it was made for a couple thousand bucks over a long weekend, the budget for The Room was $6 million. It was also entirely financed by the cult film’s...
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James Franco Has Regrets About The Time He Co-Hosted The Oscars With Anne...
Getty Image James Franco gives an awards-worthy performance in The Disaster Artist, his heartfelt biopic about the making of the best worst movie, The Room. He was recently nominated for Best Actor at...
View Article‘Call Me By Your Name’ And ‘Get Out’ Walk Away On Top At The 2017 Gotham Awards
Awards season is officially underway thanks to The Independent Filmmaker Project’s 27th Annual Gotham Awards, giving some of the biggest indies of 2017 a chance to shine. Get Out and Call Me By Your...
View ArticleTommy Wiseau Has Finally Opened Up About His Origins (Sort Of)
Tommy Wiseau is an infamously elusive individual. Secretive isn’t a strong enough word. Wiseau answers questions in an almost political kind of indecipherable Tommyspeak. Take how he answered this...
View ArticleJames Franco Appeared Alongside His ‘Disaster Artist’ Muse Tommy Wiseau On...
A week ahead of the wide release of The Disaster Artist, James Franco stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live where he was joined by none other than the elusive Tommy Wiseau himself. For his part, Wiseau seems...
View Article‘The Disaster Artist’ Is A Triumph Of Non-Literal Adaptation
Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber had a monster of a task in trying to adapt Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell’s book, The Disaster Artist. The book, which is wonderful (you can read my...
View ArticleJuliette Danielle On ‘The Disaster Artist’ And Coming To Terms With ‘The Room’
The Disaster Artist opened this past weekend to rave reviews thanks to its lighthearted but sneakily resonant telling of the bizarre, contentious, ultimately edifying friendship between Hollywood...
View ArticleJames Franco Is Answering ‘The Disaster Artist’ Phone Number As Tommy Wiseau,...
Since October, The Disaster Artist has taken over what seems to be the same billboard that Tommy Wiseau rented for The Room for over five years. Just like The Room’s billboard, it features a phone...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: The Calm Before The Storm (Troopers)
There was only one new wide release this weekend (a bomb), while James Franco’s Disaster Artist expanded into 840 theaters. However, it was an otherwise very quiet weekend as the box-office gets into...
View ArticleJames Franco And Conan Answer ‘The Disaster Artist’ Hotline In The Middle Of...
The Disaster Artist is a delightful part of awards season. James Franco is perfect as the mysterious Tommy Wiseau and clearly has an adoration for the guy that has expanded into the promotion for the...
View ArticleHere’s What It’s Like Trying To Get Inside The Head Of Tommy Wiseau
If you’re going to write a movie about Tommy Wiseau prepare for a lot of script notes from Tommy Wiseau. Well, the term “script notes” may be a generous way of looking at it. Over the course of,...
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Frotcast 354: The Hanukkah Episode! With Lacrosse Names, Justin Halpern, And...
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View ArticleWhere To Watch The 20 Best Movies Of 2017
1. Lady Bird Greta Gerwig’s nü-classic was the most beloved movie of the year, and Team Uproxx was no exception. Saoirse Ronan as “Lady Bird,” a senior in high school heading toward college, turned in...
View ArticleJames Franco Blocked Tommy Wiseau From Hijacking His Golden Globes Award Speech
James Franco’s Golden Globes win for Best Performance Of An Actor In A Motion Picture — Musical Or Comedy was because of Tommy Wiseau. Franco gets this. Without The Room, there is no The Disaster...
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Tommy Wiseau Enthusiasts Think James Franco Ruined The Best Award Speech Of 2018
NBC James Franco is enjoying his first major awards win after playing Tommy Wiseau in The Disaster Artist, a film he calls the best movie he’s ever made, which also happens to be based on the worst...
View ArticleTommy Wiseau Reveals What He Was Going To Say Onstage At The Golden Globes
When James Franco won for Best Performance Of An Actor In A Motion Picture, Musical Or Comedy during Sunday night’s Golden Globes, he graciously invited his muse Tommy Wiseau, whose life inspired the...
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Tommy Wiseau Explains What ‘The Room’ Has In Common With ‘Citizen Kane’
Getty Image Ahead of The Disaster Artist‘s Blu-ray release on March 13th, I was offered a chance to speak with The Room‘s mysterious creator, Tommy Wiseau. Naturally, I took it. I have a theory about...
View ArticleSomeone Put Tommy Wiseau’s Joker Audition Into ‘The Dark Knight’ And It Works
Tommy Wiseau’s take on Heath Ledger’s Academy Award-winning performance as The Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight has people divided. Some are over Wiseau’s fifteen-year-long attempt to...
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