The Hollywood Reporter has revealed the lineup for the 35th edition of Turin Film Festival and guess who made it? The Disaster Artist, of course! The movie will be screening in the “After Hours” section, and the festival will run from November 24-December 2 in Turin, Italy!

The 35th Turin Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled that it will screen 134 feature films as part of its lineup, including 36 world premieres and 21 international premieres, with 40 films being directors’ first or second features.

The opening-night film will be Richard Loncraine’s bittersweet comedy Finding Your Feet, staring Imelda Staunton, Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie, David Hayman, John Sessions and Joanna Lumley.

As usual, Turin’s main competition focuses on emerging filmmakers in an effort to highlight new talent. Directors including David Gordon Green, Pablo Larrain, and Damien Chazelle have won the main prize in the past at the beginning of their careers.

Larrain will serve as president of this year’s jury, awarding prizes for best film, special jury award, best actor and actress and screenplay.

Among this year’s competition lineup is Armando Iannucci’s second feature, The Death of Stalin. Anahita Ghazvinizadeh will screen his coming-of-age film They, which is produced by Jane Campion. Other entries include The White Girl from Jenny Suen and Christopher Doyle, Daphne by Peter Mackie Burns, Blue Kids by Andrea Tagliaferri, Beast by Michael Pearce, Barrage by Laura Schroeder and Bamy by Jun Tanaka.

 

In the “After Hours” section, James Franco’s The Disaster Artist about Tommy Wiseau’s cult film The Room will play as will David Freyne’s zombie thriller The Cured, starring Ellen Page, and Ana Asensio’s psychological thriller Most Beautiful Island.

Toronto International Film Festival has just announced its Midnight Madness line up and we are very happy to learn that The Disaster Artist is one of the movies to have its screening at the festival! The festival is set to take place in Toronto, Canada and goes from September 7-17. The movie, directed by James Franco, is a tribute to eccentric filmmaker Tommy Wiseau (played by James Franco) and his best friend, actor Greg Sestero (played by Dave Franco), whose notoriously awful film The Room has become one of the most beloved cult classics of all time.

James Franco’s acclaimed comedy The Disaster Artist finally has a release date, but it won’t be distributed by the studio that made it.

A24, the company behind Ex Machina and Spring Breakers, has made a deal to take over domestic distribution of the movie, setting a Dec. 8 opening date. In the pact, New Line/Warner Bros. retains international distribution, with those dates still to be determined.

Disaster Artist is a making-of movie about one of the worst films of all time, the 2003 drama The Room. Franco directed the comedy as well as stars in it with brother Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Alison Brie, Josh Hutcherson and others. The movie screened as a work-in-progress at the 2017 South by Southwest Film Festival, where it received an extended standing ovation and glowing reviews.

But despite the raves, New Line had not dated the movie for release, leading many to speculate that it would shop the movie to another company.

A24 appears to be a perfect blend of distributor and material, and the company is slotting it in the middle of awards season. It will start with a limited engagement Dec. 1 before going wide a week later.

In Disaster Artist, James Franco portrays the eccentric Tommy Wiseau, helmer and star of The Room, which developed a strong cult following, including among celebrities. Wiseau had no filmmaking experience when he set out to write, direct and produce the pic, which centers on a man named Johnny whose fiancee, Lisa, cheats on him with his best friend, Mark.

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