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Banijay Rights, the distribution arm of French production company Banijay Group, has acquired Funwood Media, the producer of Spanish crime thriller La Sala (The Room). Banijay has taken a majority stake in the Spain and Italy-based company for an undisclosed fee, marking another acquisition after it agreed to buy Endem…

Spanish crime thriller The Room is set for a UK adaptation after Firebird Pictures, the indie set up by Bodyguard exec producer Elizabeth Kilgarriff, optioned the format rights. The BBC Studios-backed producer has struck a deal with French sales firm Newen Distribution for the scripted format rights to the show, which…

Filmmakers and actors Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero are going from the confines of the cult hit The Room to intergalactic adventures in the new animated pilot SpaceWorld. Wiseau and Sestero are lending their voice to the loosely serialized animated sci-fi series. Wiseau stars as the mysterious bounty hunter known as…

Emboldened by his success in adapting a Revolutionary War hero to contemporary times, Lin-Manuel Miranda has taken on a tougher task – he has announced that Broadway will soon see his version of Tommy Wiseau’s film The Room. Miranda announced the deal via his Twitter account today. "This is all VERY premature," he…

With The Disaster Artist getting rave reviews, the star ranking for The Room director and star Tommy Wiseau is on the rise — so much that he has pitched himself to be in the next Star Wars movie. The mind behind “one of the worst movie ever made” on which James Franco’s The Disaster Artist is based, took to Twitter…

In its initial 2003 theatrical release, Tommy Wiseau’s $6M indie The Room was considered a dud, making just under $2,000. But The Disaster Artist, James Franco’s feature bio-satire about the making of the midnight cult classic, is poised to be anything but a belly flop. In its 19-theater opening last weekend, The Disas…

James Franco joins me on this week’s edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, about the art of the actor. In a wide-ranging conversation, we get right to the heart of just what makes him tick on the screen and onstage. Franco describes how as a kid he loved movies and knew he wanted to act because of that…

At Deadline’s 7th annual The Contenders awards-season event, James Franco appeared in front of a packed house of AMPAS and key guild voters at the DGA Theater to talk about how he decided he had to star in and direct The Disaster Artist. The film tells the tale of the making of Hollywood dreamer Tommy Wiseau’s…

Leave it to James Franco to find inspiration for a smart screen comedy from the shambles of perhaps the worst movie ever made. That is exactly what he has done with The Disaster Artist, a good-natured tribute in some ways to the godawful 2003 “drama” The Room. As I say in my video review above, this is not to be…

Four new films that take on grand-scale social issues from the intimate perspective of the people affected by them were the subject of a too-brief, provocative panel at Saturday afternoon’s continuation of the Producers Guild of America’s Produced By: NY conference. Titled “The Power of Successful Creative…

Catch up on Deadline’s top film stories you missed this week: James Franco's Production Company Acquires Book About So-Bad-It's-Good Cult Movie 'The Room' By The Deadline Team – James Franco's Rabbit Bandini Productions has optioned book and life rights to The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the book…

James Franco's Rabbit Bandini Productions has optioned book and life rights to The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the book published last fall by Simon & Schuster from actor Greg Sestero and journalist Tom Bissell. Franco will direct and co-produce the book adaptation with his Rabbit Bandini  partner Vince…