Popcorn Taxi is proud to present
the Sydney Premiere of the US cult smash

THE ROOM

Written, directed and starring Tommy Wiseau

Plus an introduction and Q&A with cult movie guru and now author

Michael Adams

(Showgirls, Teen Wolves and Astro Zombies)

Monday February 1 - 7pm

Event Cinemas - Bondi Junction

Watch Trailer Here

Written, directed and starring Tommy Wiseau, The Room is like no other film you’ve seen.

Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) seems to have it all- a beautiful fiancée, Lisa, great friends and a job with a promotion in the works. But Lisa, (Juliette Danielle) isn’t who she seems. Manipulative and restless, Lisa sets her sights on Johnny’s best friend Mark (Greg Sestero) and they start a torrid affair and Johnny’s perfect world starts to crumble.
Featured on Adult Swim’s Tim and Eric, Awesome Show, Great Job! and beloved by comic actors such as Kevin Smith, Paul Rudd, Frank Black, Jonah Hill and Alec Baldwin, The Room has garnered a massive cult following, selling out sessions across the US, leaving audiences stunned and wondering “how can so bad, be so good?”

Pre-screening we'll be joined by author of Showgirls, Teen Wolves and Astro Zombies, Michael Adams who will set the scene for a night not to be missed!

More on The Room:

Wiseau made an appearance on Adult Swim's sketch comedy show Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! in the episode "Tommy", on March 8, 2009. Scenes from The Room were shown in the episode. Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, the titular duo, regularly attend screenings of The Room.

The Room was aired in its entirety on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block as its annual April Fool's Day joke on April 1, 2009, at midnight, followed by the "Tommy" episode of Awesome Show; other programming ran as scheduled. As usual for its April Fools Joke, Adult Swim gave TV Guide the wrong information. Adult Swim rated The Room TV-14-DLSV, and scenes not appropriate for basic cable were edited out or partially or entirely covered with black boxes. At random times, the phrase "Do not duplicate this copyrighted material" appeared at the bottom of the screen, and the bumps, which appear before and after the commercial breaks, either advertised the R-rated DVD or asked "What are you fools watching?" The day following the broadcast, the movie placed as high as #28 on the Amazon.com DVD best-seller list, as well as moving to #1 among independent films on the site.

Though not mentioned by name, The Room was referenced on the television show Veronica Mars in the episode "Un-American Graffiti." While walking the hall and tossing a football back and forth, Piz describes the film to Wallace, "It's like the new Rocky Horror. Now at one point, people throw plastic spoons at the screen...you have to check it out. It'll...it'll change your life." Additionally, on the January 30, 2009 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Veronica Mars star Kristen Bell (appearing to promote the film Fanboys) mentioned The Room at length and its cult following; host Jimmy KimmelThe Room during the conversation. A billboard for The Room is also partially visible in episode 323 of The Hills, during an establishing shot of LA.

More on Michael Adams:

For a brief shining moment, Michael Adams was co-host of The Movie Show. Many of the foolish moments seen are recounted in Showgirls, Teen Wolves And Astro Zombies.

Not that he’s a total Gen X cliché, but Michael Adams was first blown away by the power of movies when the rebel ship and its Imperial pursuer blasted over his head in 1977’s Star Wars. After staging hundreds of action-figure re-enactments, Michael incorporated his love of Princess Leia, writing stories and obsessing over movies into a newfound career goal – namely, creating screenplays for Carrie Fisher that he could direct. He was, after all, seven years old at the time.

Soon after, exposed to films way beyond his pay grade, he became a keen fan of The Deer Hunter and Taxi Driver, along with the likes of The Evil Dead, Basket Case, The Thing and Pink Flamingos. After briefly absconding from the parental home for a Kerouac-ian road trip at age 16, he scored a job at a film distributor – and used their facilities to publish Night Creatures, a short-lived fanzine about cult films. At which point followed a brief foray into journalism school. Other CV highlights include stints as a kitchen hand, local newspaper hack, telemarketing asshole, video store clerk, nervous Third World war-zone correspondent, hardware store jockey, pool boy, schlock movie actor and ice cream scooper.

Michael eventually glommed into magazine writing, using two years at FHM as his springboard into Empire magazine. Eight years and thousands of films later he’s happy to be a movie reviewer.

In addition to Empire, Michael contributes still to FHM and Men’s Style, along with M/X, Rolling Stone, and websites Movieline, Rottentomatoes, and TheWrap.

In 2006, his screenplay A Flash Exclusive was one of 14 chosen by Bryan Brown from 2600 entries to form the basis of his thriller TV series Two Twisted. Michael’s episode starred La Femme Nikita’s Peta Wilson. (A sexy scene from the show has clocked up 50,000 hits on YouTube, although Michael is quite certain it has more to do with Peta Wilson in lingerie than the quality of the dialogue.)

Michael’s adventures in TV continued in 2007 and 2008, this time in front of the camera as co-host (with the lovely Lisa Hensley) of the national TV review program The Movie Show. Sadly, the powers that be cancelled the program in mid-2008 and Michael returned to his native face-for-radio environment, occasionally chiming in on Richard Glover’s Drive program on ABC in NSW.

But he will be glimpsed in George A. Romero’s upcoming Survival Of The Dead, “playing” – what else? – a zombie. Even though he was shot in the head in Survival Of The Dead, Michael continues to live in Sydney with Clare and their daughter Ava. They have two cats, Asta and Spencer – both named on movie whims.