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Adam Green

Is Adam Green (filmmaker) notable enough to mention as a fan of this movie? I've seen him in a video being interviewed after waiting in line to see it. "Wiseau promotes the film as a black comedy and insists that the “unintentional” humor is intentional. People who have seen the film doubt this claim."

As for the attempted deletion of the last sentence; Even the NPR story linked below reports that people who watched this film don't believe the humor is intentional. Wikipedia isn't a place for censorship to suit personal agendas.

Consensus on future wife/fiancée

One of the small oddities of this article is the reference to fiancée in almost all instances being referred to as future wife. I would like if we can reach a consensus as to refer to Lisa as future wife or fiancée in most cases.

My personal thoughts on this are to keep the wording as 'future wife' as that is how she is described in the film, the book The Disaster Artist, and most of the cited sources. It also seems to be what editors in the past have preferred with how much fiancée has been edited to future wife. Jeanjung212 (talk) 15:06, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Checked and confirmed both links are valid. -Jeanjung212 (talk) 13:18, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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64.175.40.235 (talk) 00:11, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Request for image correction

At private WP:OTRS ticket:2018081010005606 a user requests a correction to the non-free image leading this article.

Somehow a black and white image is used. The official movie poster has color. The request is for someone to copy the image from the IMDB entry to use in this article.

Are any of this article's editors available to replace the incorrect black and white File:TheRoomMovie.jpg with a copy of the IMDB color image? Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:03, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@PatTheMoron and Jeanjung212: I think you have edited this in the past. Are you available to take this request? Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:06, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I can do that. PatTheMoron (talk) 22:14, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done! PatTheMoron (talk) 22:24, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@PatTheMoron: Thanks! Jeanjung212 (talk) 14:38, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 11:31, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Box office source review

I was looking for box office for the room when google found that according to wikipedia the box office was 1800$... compared to other articles in wikipedia where box office is written as total number, i found it really low given it's famous character.

This wiki article many times refers to https://ew.com/article/2008/12/12/crazy-cult-room/ as relevant source of information and provides it as source for box office aswell. however, the article itself states (on the current box office number): "Tommy Wiseau insists that he ”really doesn’t know” how the film fared at the box office on its initial release. However, one industry source states that the combined gross from the two-week run at two theaters — the Laemmle Fallbrook and Fairfax — was just $1,900." (only box office reference i found in article connected to the number)

i find one "industry source" highly unreliable, given you have other sources like IMDB which is at least a bit more believable with it's $7,840,034 Cumulative Worldwide Gross and Opening Weekend USA: $5,800, 30 June 2003. or https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=theroom.htm boxofficemojo's Domestic Total Gross: $549,602

i already tried to edit the article providing information from IMDB as total box office rather than some random number from 2 cinemas. the change was reverted tho so i would like someone more qualified to review the source and in case he finds it incorrect aswell edit it. at least put $1800 as information for "initial box office" not as "box office".

thank you for reviewing this