Since Thanksgiving weekend, the Tower Theatre has offered late-night screenings of “The Room,” the infamous 2003 melodrama that was self-financed by its preening star, Tommy Wiseau. The Tower, at 876 E. 900 South, is doing it again this weekend, with screenings Friday and Saturday at 11 p.m. and Sunday at noon (for those who don’t have any last-minute Christmas Eve chores).
The screenings have been fairly well attended, I’m told by a spokesperson for the Salt Lake Film Society, the nonprofit that runs the Tower and Broadway Centre Cinemas. One screening in early December nearly sold out the 340-seat theater, the weekend before the Broadway opened “The Disaster Artist,” the movie directed by James Franco that tells the story of how “The Room” got made.