WARREN, Ohio – Four Warren-area businessmen are among the group of producers of an upcoming film starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgewick, and they will bring those stars to Warren in February for red-carpet screenings at Robins Theatre.

Ken Haidaris, Armand Nannicola, Salvatore Coppola and James Dobson are part of the team of investors in “Family Movie,” a dark horror-comedy.

Haidaris, owner of the Sunrise Inn, director of the River Rock at the Amp concert series and show promoter at the Robins Theatre, said the screenings at the Robins will take place on a Friday and Saturday in February. The exact dates have not yet been determined.

The Bacon Brothers Band, which includes the famous actor, will perform Thursday at the theater.

The “Family Movie” cast also includes Bacon’s wife, Sedgwick (“Born on the Fourth of July,” “Singles,” “Secondhand Lions”), and their children, Sosie and Travis Bacon. John Carroll Lynch and Scoot McNairy are also in the cast.

Bacon and his family will take the stage after the screenings at the Robins Theatre for a question and answer session with the audience, Haidaris said.

Bacon and Sedgwick are also the directors of the film, which was written by Dan Beers.

“Family Movie” focuses on a family that works together as struggling indie filmmakers. While shooting a low-budget horror film, things go wrong for the family when dead bodies start showing up on their set.

The Bacons do not play themselves in the film, but they are cast as members of the same family.

“Family Movie” is the first film directed by Bacon (“Footloose,” “Tremors,” “A Few Good Men”). In an interview on fan website CBR Presents, the film star said his movie has gore, as horror fans would expect, but is really more about family.

The film premiered in March at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. It also opened the Bentonville Film Festival in June and was screened at the Karlovy Vary and the Provincetown, R.I., film festivals.

“Family Movie” was shot in Texas.

A Variety magazine review offered praise for it, stating “it’s sophisticated where it counts when it … moves away from easy jokes about being on a low-budget set to harder truths about being in a showbiz family” that are made urgent because a killer is running loose on their farm.

The four producers from Warren got involved after Coppola got a call from his friend, Vince Jolivette, to ask if he wanted to invest in the film. Jolivette is producer of the movie.

Coppola is the owner of Salvatore’s Italian restaurants in the Mahoning Valley.

Nannicola is an owner of Youngstown-based Nannicola Inc., one of the nation’s largest  distributors of charitable gaming supplies.

Dobson co-owns the Servpro of Trumbull and Ashtabula Counties franchise.

The four men saw the investment as a good opportunity.

“They brought us a packaged product where we knew what was going on – the financials,” Haidaris said. “I think it’s going to do very well.

The movie will open nationwide shortly after the Robins Theatre screenings. It will be booked in AMC and Regal theaters.

The excitement will bubble over into the menus at the Sunrise Inn, Salvatore’s and maybe a few other restaurants.

“We’re going to have bacon-themed menus and [have our staff wear] ‘Family Movie’ hats and stuff like that,” Haidaris said.

The film will likely open the weekend after the Robins Theatre premiere on somewhere between 1,500 and 2,500 screens nationwide, said Jolivette in a phone interview from his California home. “We’ll know more closer to the release date,” he said.

After the theatrical run ends, the next step will be to sell it to a major streaming service.

The handful of audiences that have seen the film thoroughly enjoyed it, Jolivette said.

“The screening at South by Southwest was just a blast because the audience really got it,” he said. “It’s a very entertaining movie, and it’s an endearing movie because it’s the Bacon family, and you can just tell how much they love each other.”

Pictured at top: Kevin Bacon, Ken Haidaris, Salvatore Coppola and Armand Nannicola pose for a photo at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas, in March.