Releasing a movie as a first-time filmmaker during a pandemic isn’t an ideal scenario.
Unless you’re Dave Franco, who deftly makes the shift from screen actor to feature director with “The Rental,” his new low-budget horror movie starring an indie dream team including his wife Alison Brie, Dan Stevens, and Sheila Vand.
“We’re obviously living in a new world, and everyone is finding different ways to release their films,” said Franco in a recent interview, whose movie, which opens digitally from IFC Films on July 24, premiered in June at the Vineland Drive-In outside Los Angeles.“It’s not exactly what I imagined for the person public screening of my film, but in certain ways, it was better.
Most premieres make me feel anxious, and this one just felt more relaxed, and like a communal experience.
It was essentially a bunch of movie lovers coming together to have joint experience,
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