The Beyond Fest genre film festival has announced the full programming slate for its Sept. 26-Oct. 9 run at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. The 2018 programming offers 46 features and 24 West Coast premieres, all screened as a fundraiser for the American Cinematheque non-profit. The festival opens with Gaspar Noe's…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s been about 15 years since Tommy Wiseau released The Room, which has since become a so-bad-that-its-good cult phenomenon that led to the critically acclaimed The Disaster Artist. Now Wiseau and his partner in crime Greg Sestero are back with Best F(r)iends, and based on the exclusive clip above, they…

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…

Ever the die-hard fan of classic novels, James Franco has ambitiously directed and starred in movies based on tomes by William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy. But then four years ago, the 127 Hours Oscar nominee found Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell's New York Times bestseller, The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room…

Luke Y Thompson is covering the Con for Deadline: A round-up of some other panels, in brief… BATTLE: LOS ANGELES Should they have called this, BATTLE: L.A., since it was actually shot in Louisiana, and that would provide plausible deniability? Regardless, the look being strived for here is obviously BLACK HAWK DOWN…

SATURDAY, JULY 24 THE DAY YOUR FEET GET REALLY SORE Luke Y Thompson covers Hollywood events at the Con for Deadline: 10:00-11:00 AM: Mad about MAD! I used to love Mad Magazine, but in the years since it started accepting advertising, it has gone way downhill. Apparently there'll be some sort of new TV venture…