A Walk in the Woods is a 2015 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Ken Kwapis, based on the 1998 book/memoir of the same name by Bill Bryson.
 The film stars Robert Redford, Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson.
 The film was released on September 2, 2015, by Broad Green Pictures.
The Big Short is a 2015 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Adam McKay and written by McKay and Charles Randolph, based on the 2010 book "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" by Michael Lewis about the financial crisis of 2007–2008 which was triggered by the United States housing bubble.
 The film stars Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Melissa Leo, Hamish Linklater, John Magaro, Rafe Spall, Jeremy Strong, Finn Wittrock, and Marisa Tomei.
American Splendor is a 2003 American biographical comedy-drama film about Harvey Pekar, the author of the "American Splendor" comic book series.
 The film is also in part an adaptation of the comics, which dramatize Pekar's life.
 The film was written and directed by documentarians Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini.
Man on the Moon is a 1999 American biographical comedy-drama film about the late American entertainer Andy Kaufman, starring Jim Carrey as Kaufman.
 The film was directed by Miloš Forman and also features Danny DeVito, Courtney Love, and Paul Giamatti.
The Disaster Artist is a 2017 American biographical comedy-drama film produced and directed by James Franco.
 Written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, based on Greg Sestero's non-fiction book of the same name, the film chronicles the making of Tommy Wiseau's 2003 cult film "The Room".
 The film stars James and Dave Franco as Wiseau and Sestero, alongside a supporting cast featuring Seth Rogen, Alison Brie, Ari Graynor, Josh Hutcherson and Jacki Weaver.
James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer.
 For his role in "127 Hours" (2010), Franco was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.
 He is known for his roles in live-action films such as "Milk" (2008), "Pineapple Express" (2008), "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" (2011), "Spring Breakers" (2012), "Oz the Great and Powerful" (2013), "This Is the End" (2013), " The Disaster Artist" (2017), and Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" trilogy, while also voicing characters in the animated films "The Little Prince" (2015) and "Sausage Party" (2016).
Kid Cannabis is a 2014 American biographical comedy-drama film.
 It is based on the true story of an Idaho teen dropout who builds a multimillion-dollar marijuana ring by trafficking drugs through the woods across the Canada–US border.
The Disaster Artist is an award-winning 2013 non-fiction book written by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell.
 Sestero reveals the troubled development and production of the 2003 cult film "The Room" while detailing his own struggles as a starving young actor and his relationship with the mysterious Tommy Wiseau.
 The book focuses on the difficulties and odd experiences Sestero had behind the scenes and his unlikely friendship with Wiseau.
 A film adaptation of the same name developed by Seth Rogen with James Franco directing, producing and starring as Tommy Wiseau along with Dave Franco as Greg Sestero premiered at South by Southwest on March 12, 2017.
"Hidden Figures" is a 2016 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Theodore Melfi, and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder, who adapted the screenplay from the non-fiction book "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly.
 The film's plot focuses on female African-American mathematicians at NASA, specifically Katherine Johnson (played by Taraji P. Henson), who calculated flight trajectories for Project Mercury and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon, Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and engineer Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe).
 Kevin Costner plays the supporting role of Al Harrison and Jim Parsons plays the role of Paul Stafford.
 20th Century Fox gave the film a limited release from December 25, 2016, before a wide release on January 6, 2017.
Tucker: The Man and His Dream is a 1988 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Jeff Bridges.
 The film recounts the story of Preston Tucker and his attempt to produce and market the 1948 Tucker Sedan, which was met with scandal between the "Big Three automobile manufacturers" and accusations of stock fraud from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
 Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Elias Koteas, Frederic Forrest and Christian Slater appear in supporting roles.

Question: James Edward Franco, is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer, and is known for his roles in live-action films such as he Disaster Artist, an American biographical comedy-drama film, released in which year?
Answer: 2017