{"id":724,"date":"2017-02-07T23:21:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T23:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesfranconetwork.net\/?p=724"},"modified":"2017-02-07T23:21:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T23:21:26","slug":"james-francos-the-disaster-artist-to-premiere-at-sxsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"James Franco\u2019s \u2018The Disaster Artist\u2019 to Premiere at SXSW"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>James Franco\u2019s \u2018The Disaster Artist\u201d has been set for a \u201cwork in progress\u201d premiere the upcoming South by Southwest film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>SXSW made the announcement Tuesday. Franco directed \u201cThe Disaster Artist,\u201d based on the making of Tommy Wiseau\u2019s incomprehensible \u201cThe Room,\u201d which some describe as the \u201c\u2019Citizen Kane\u2019 of bad movies.\u201d Franco also stars along with sibling Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Josh Hutcherson, Ari Graynor, Jacki Weaver and Alison Brie.<br \/>\nThe program is also attempting to set up a screening of the original \u201cThe Room,\u201d which first screened in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The festival, which is heading into its 24th year, will open March 10 in Austin with the previously announced Terrence Malick movie \u201cSong to Song\u201d with Rooney Mara, Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender, and Natalie Portman. It announced most of the lineup a week ago, including world premieres of \u201cBaby Driver\u201d and \u201cThe Ballad of Lefty Brown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new announcement includes the SXSW Midnighters section of 10 genre films, including eight world premieres plus nine other new movies, bringing the total to 128.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this current political climate, genre filmmakers are more necessary than ever,\u201d said Jarod Neece, SXSW Senior Film Programmer. \u201cThey give us the chance to escape the horrors in our daily lives and spend some time in the dark, hallowed halls of the cinema. This year\u2019s batch of Midnighters span the gamut of splatter horror, dark comedy, revenge, and satire, and explore mortality, sociopathy and survival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SXSW has also launched a new Virtual Reality section with 38 projects that emphasize storytelling and ingenuity as a showcase how other industries are embracing the medium.<\/p>\n<p>SXSW Conference announced separately a new keynotes, featured speakers and sessions. They include Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Senator Cory Booker, actress Julia-Louis Dreyfus and the cast of \u201cVeep,\u201d GLAAD President Sarah Kate Ellis, Fleetwood Mac namesake Mick Fleetwood, pop singer and songwriter Kesha, actor Bob Odenkirk, WWE star John Cena, Nick Denton and Jeff Goodby. Previously announced speakers include Lee Daniels, Gareth Edwards, Jill Soloway, Cheryl Boone Isaacs and \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\">Sources <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Franco\u2019s \u2018The Disaster Artist\u201d has been set for a \u201cwork in progress\u201d premiere the upcoming South by Southwest film Festival. SXSW made the announcement Tuesday. Franco directed \u201cThe Disaster Artist,\u201d based on the making of Tommy Wiseau\u2019s incomprehensible \u201cThe Room,\u201d which some describe as the \u201c\u2019Citizen Kane\u2019 of bad movies.\u201d Franco also stars along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-disaster-artist","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}