Welcome to “Playback,” a Variety podcast bringing you exclusive conversations with the talents behind many of today’s hottest films. Oscar-nominated actor James Franco has been busy these last several ...

The surreal art of Camille Rose Garcia is both hallucinatory and earth-bound, enchanting and terrifying, much like life in California. Her latest series of paintings were inspired in part by her ...

“The Disaster Artist,” released Dec. 1, delves deeply into the quirky backstory of “The Room,” arguably the worst movie of all time. “The Room,” described by one of its lead actors, Greg Sestero, as ...

Seth Rogen has kind of shared a poster of The Disaster Artist on Twitter, and seeing James Franco as Tommy Wiseau will tear you apart. The image is actually a mock up of the original poster for The ...

Charlyne Yi has revealed that she quit James Franco’s 2017 film The Disaster Artist due to allegations of sexual misconduct. She also accused Franco’s peers, like Seth Rogen, of enabling such behavior ...

Best of Chicago 2025 Credit: Cover and section photography by Kirk Williamson. Creative direction and prop styling by Shira Friedman-Parks, Amber Huff, and Kirk Williamson. Design by Corianton Hale.

Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process,” E.B. White once wrote. His words apply to The Room, an inept drama from writer-director-producer-star Tommy Wiseau that found ...

When the leading repertory theater in the nation’s most important theater city after New York stages an ambitious new play about one of the greatest disasters in American history; when the play, ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When James Franco set out to direct "The Disaster Artist," a faux behind-the-scenes look at the making of 2003's "The Room," often called one of the worst films ever made, he ...