{"id":2616,"date":"2017-12-06T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/12\/06\/sxsw-film-festival-headliner-the-disaster-artist-in-theaters-now\/"},"modified":"2017-12-06T21:00:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T21:00:16","slug":"sxsw-film-festival-headliner-the-disaster-artist-in-theaters-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/12\/06\/sxsw-film-festival-headliner-the-disaster-artist-in-theaters-now\/","title":{"rendered":"SXSW Film Festival Headliner The Disaster Artist In Theaters Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would have been easy to make a movie making fun of <em>The Room<\/em> &#8211; clowning it, or objectifying it in some way &#8211; but we love it,&#8221; said producer and cast member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/film\/2017\/25-years-sxsw-film-festival-seth-rogen-2\/\"><strong>Seth Rogen<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Franco<\/strong>&#8216;s wildly popular film <em>The Disaster Artist<\/em> is currently playing in select theaters and will open nation-wide on <strong>December 8<\/strong>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/sxsw.com\/festivals\/film\/\">SXSW Film Festival<\/a> Work-In-Progress screening received an enthusiastic response as well a standing ovation. Since its SXSW debut, the film has garnered critical acclaim, particularly praising Franco&#8217;s direction and performance as <strong>Tommy Wiseau.<\/strong> Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/world\/in-depth\/2017\/disaster-artist-celebrates-accidental-celebrity\/\">latest edition of <em>SXSWorld<\/em> for in-depth look at <em>The Disaster Artist<\/em><\/a> written by film journalist <strong>Eric Kohn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at our red carpet coverage and enjoy the hilarious Q&amp;A!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h3>Join Us For SXSW 2018<\/h3>\n<p>Grab your <a href=\"https:\/\/cart.sxsw.com\/products\/reg-film\">Film Badge<\/a> today for primary access to all SXSW Film events including world premieres, roundtables, workshops, and parties. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/attend\/\">Register to attend<\/a> by <strong>Friday, January 12<\/strong> and save. Book your hotel through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/hotels\/\">SXSW Housing &amp; Travel<\/a> for the best available rates.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the 2018 SXSW Film Festival lineup which will be announced in January.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sxswfestival\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sxsw\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sxsw\/\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"\/news\">SXSW News<\/a> for the latest SXSW coverage, announcements, and updates.<\/p>\n<p>See you in March! <br \/>\n<small><em>Work-In-Progress Screening of The Disaster Artist &#8211; Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer\/Getty Images for SXSW<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/film\/2017\/sxsw-film-festival-headliner-disaster-artist-theaters-now\/\">SXSW Film Festival Headliner The Disaster Artist In Theaters Now<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\">SXSW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: SxSW Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It would have been easy to make a movie making fun of The Room &#8211; clowning it, or objectifying it in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-Gc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}