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Comedy is one of the most popular movie genres, and it's still churning out great films, such as action comedy The Fall Guy, and throwbacks like Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. Ben Stiller has also made a welcome acting return with the warmly received Nutcrackers. However, during the development process of a movie, the best intentions to make a serious film can turn it into an unintentionally hilarious comedy.

There are always deciding factors for this. Perhaps the script needed another draft, or the director should have had more control over the actor's performances. The problem is, that such movies were never meant to be comedies. There would have been humorous sequences to add levity to the script, but the intention wouldn't be to make an out-and-out comedy. Unfortunately, many movies with the best intentions are hilariously bad.

The Room (2003) Directed By Tommy Wiseau

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If you were a kid or teen in the 2000s, it's likely that you watched at least one movie featuring Josh Hutcherson, and it's also likely that you had a favorite movie with him in it. Hutcherson began acting in the early 2000s and had minor roles in a variety of TV shows before making his film debut in 2003's "American Splendor." From there, Hutcherson was launched into stardom and starred in a number of popular films throughout the decade, including "Kicking & Screaming," "Zathura: A Space Adventure," and "Journey to the Center of the Earth." By the 2010s, Hutcherson took on more mature roles and arguably landed his most popular role as Peeta Mellark in "The Hunger Games," which he would reprise for the remaining three movies in the beloved film series.

Most recently, Hutcherson is set to star in "Five Nights at Freddy's," the film adaptation of the...

The greatest movie of all time is heading back to the big screen for a nationwide celebration of its 20th anniversary. On June 27, 2003, Tommy Wiseau premiered his cult classic The Room, a film with a production that was just as interesting as the movie itself, inspiring the book and feature film The Disaster Artist. Two decades to the day later, The Room will be screening in participating theaters across the United States, courtesy of Fathom Events.

"Hi guys, this is Tommy Wiseau, I'd like to invite you to special celebration of The Room," Wiseau says in a special trailer for the anniversary release, seen above. "Hope you can make it, enjoy The Room!"

Wiseau wrote, directed, and produced The Room. He also stars in the lead role, co-starring alongside Greg Sestero, Juliette Danielle, Philip Haldiman, and Carolyn Minnott. The movie is a romantic drama about a banker named Johnny (Wiseau...

The Room – a genre-jumping fluke that God himself couldn’t predict – may relinquish its midnight-movie throne once The Disaster Artist dumbfounds unprepared audiences. James Franco chronicles Tommy Wiseau’s indescribable rise in this hilarious tell-all, adapted from Greg Sestero’s bestselling biography of the same name. Bottomless bank accounts, limp-wristed football tosses, an accent without definition – The Disaster Artist tells a story too ridiculous for sanity. But that’s probably why you’ll lose your mind from laughing so damn hard.

The Disaster Artist begins with a talking head segment that praises The Room (Kevin Smith/J.J. Abrams, Adam Scott), anointing its decade-defying relevance as nothing short of deserved. We then meet Tommy Wiseau (James Franco) in a San Francisco acting class, alongside fellow student Greg Sestero (Dave Franco). They strike an immediate friendship, feeding off one another’s energy. Sestero envies Wiseau and his free-spirited abandon, while Wiseau just wants a friend.

Often referred to as the “Citizen Kane of bad movies,” Tommy Wiseau’s The Room wrote its name in cinema’s history books for all the wrong reasons back in 2003. A spluttering mess of plot holes and cringe-worthy dialogue, Wiseau’s self-confessed passion project – one which he wrote, directed and starred in – has since gone on to become something of a cult classic, and soon James Franco and Co. will introduce moviegoers to the story behind the so-called misguided masterpiece.

Its title? The Disaster Artist, a big-screen rendition of Greg Sestero’s novel of the same name. Those already familiar with Sestero’s source material will know all too well that the author pulls no punches in his autopsy of The Room, which is hardly surprising given he co-starred in the cult original as conflicted best friend Mark. Fast forward to 2017 and it is Dave Franco that will be playing the part of Mark,...

James Franco has offered up our first look at both him and brother Dave Franco in upcoming making-of drama, The Disaster Artist.

Shedding light on the creation of much-maligned cult drama The Room, James Franco is starring and directing the feature film as Tommy Wiseau, while Dave plays carefree jock, Mark. With production now set to get underway, The Hollywood Reporter confirms that a slew of talent has been added for the non-fiction drama, including model and actress Kate Upton, Ari Graynor, Jacki Weaver, Hannibal Buress and Andrew Santino. They’ll star opposite The Hunger Games star Josh Hutcherson, who was recruited for the picture only yesterday as Philip Haldiman.

Lifted from Greg Sestero’s first-hand experience with The Room and what it was like to work with the eccentric Wiseau, Franco’s directorial effort will be underpinned by Sestero’s non-fiction novel The Disaster Artist, which he penned alongside...

The subjectively worst Hunger Games love interest is joining the movie about the making of the objectively worst movie ever. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Josh Hutcherson has signed on to play Philip Haldiman, the actor who played Danny in The Room, in James Franco’s The Disaster Artist, which will chronicle the making of the delightfully terrible movie. In a move that mimics fellow perfect-jawed human Zac Efron’s absorption into Hollywood’s stoner comedy-industrial complex with Neighbors, Hutcherson joins a cast that includes Dave Franco and Seth Rogen. The film is based off of a 2013 book of the same name from Greg Sestero, who starred in the 2003 movie, and has a script by (500) Days of Summer’s Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber. James Franco is directing and starring in the project as Tommy Wiseau, the director and star of The Room.

The Room documentary Room Full of Spoons has released a trailer.

Rick Harper's film interviews the stars and makers of the cult classic.

Juliette Danielle (Lisa), Philip Haldiman (Denny) and Kyle Vogt (Peter) are among the interviewees who speak about their experiences during and after the filming of the movie.

Tommy Wiseau's baffling 2003 film went on to become a sleeper hit with a huge fanbase and frequent screenings around the world.

James Franco is working on an adaptation of star Greg Sestero's memoir The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room.

Room Full of Spoons will be released in 2015.

Where do you go after you star in The Room? If you're Greg Sestero, you parlay the experience into a years-long gig as the custodian of the film's legend. If you're anyone else in the cast, though, you're out of luck — Tommy Wiseau only has room for one Boswell. That's why six of the film's former cast members, including Juliette Danielle (Lisa) and Phillip Haldiman (Denny), have come together to create a new project based on their post-Room lives, and now they want you to donate to it. The Room Actors: Where Are They Now? won't be a reality show; instead, creator Robyn Paris (Michelle) describes the idea as a Christopher Guest–style mockumentary. A web series about struggling actors in Los Angeles? Ha, what a story, Mark!

Chicago – Some cinematic experiences offer diminishing returns after a first viewing. Others prove to have an infinite amount of playability. Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 cult classic “The Room” is unquestionably among the latter. Since its debut, the film has garnered a legion of devoted fans worldwide who flock to midnight screenings and indulge in the most enthusiastic audience participation ritual since “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

Though the film was originally billed as a melodrama, it is now being marketed as a dark comedy. Writer/director Wiseau stars as Johnny, a pure-hearted banker, honest lover and everyone’s favorite customer. His girlfriend and “future wife” Lisa (Juliette Danielle) starts to lose interest in their relationship, and secretly conducts an affair with Johnny’s best friend, Mark (Greg Sestero). There’s also many subplots involving a drug dealing orphan named Denny (Philip Haldiman), a mother battling breast cancer, and a humiliated chucklehead...

Seated in front of a mantle upon which rests a football, a basketball, a bouquet of roses and a poster of his face, a man with a mysterious accent speaks about a movie. "Everything you see and experience was done meticulously with meticulous planning and with a lot of preparation," he says before adding, "This is the finished product," in case that was not made clear by the film itself.

The man is Tommy Wiseau. His film is called "The Room," which Wiseau wrote, directed, starred in, produced and executive produced (he receives on screen credit for both producing titles). No one knows where he or his accent comes from; Wiseau gives interviews, but is notoriously stingy with details about his personal life. Like the Coneheads, he claims a vague past in France. Like the Coneheads, his accent is most certainly not French. When Wiseau speaks in "The Room," he...