Submitted photo From left, actor Kevin Bacon poses for a photo with Ken Haidaris, Salvatore Coppola and Armand Nannicola in Austin, Texas, where the film “Family Movie” had its world premiere Friday. The local businessmen are investors in the horror comedy, which features Bacon and his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, as co-directors and co-stars.

Four area businessmen are prominent investors in a new film with husband-and-wife duo Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick as both co-directors and co-stars.

The horror-comedy “Family Movie” had its world premiere Friday in Austin, Texas, at the SXSW Film Festival. Ken Haidaris (Sunrise Inn, Sunrise Entertainment), Salvatore Coppola (Salvatore’s Italian Grill) and Armand Nannicola (formerly of Nannicola Wholesale) were in attendance for the festivities. Jim Dodson (SERVPRO) is the fourth partner in Morning Wood Productions, which is named after Haidaris’s boat.

Coppola said he’s friends with one of the film’s producers, Vince Jolivette, who suggested he get involved with the project.

“I’m getting ready to retire, getting out of the restaurant business, and I just need to stay busy,” Coppola said. “Let’s try something else. I just wanted to do it. And Kenny is probably the best promoter in the area that does a lot of nice things for the city, so I got him involved, and the other two gentlemen I’m really good friends with.”

Haidaris said in a separate interview, “It was a chance to do something fun. And there’s obviously a little profit motive in there too.”

Coppola, Haidaris and Nannicola went to a party with the cast, crew and investors on Thursday and then attended the premiere and afterparty on Friday.

“The afterparty was a blast,” Haidaris said. “Everybody was there. There were all kinds of celebrities there, because it was the South By Southwest Film and Music Festival.”

The movie is about a family working together to make a low-budget horror film, and Bacon and Sedgwick co-star with their children, Sosie and Travis Bacon, as the family making the movie. But as they face increasing struggles and obstacles while making their project, the body count off-camera threatens to exceed the one on screen.

Bacon has more than 100 film and television credits, including such hits as “Footloose,” “JFK,” “Apollo 13” and “Mystic River.” Sedgwick starred in the series “The Closer” and appeared in such films as “Phenomenon,” “Something to Talk About” and “Secondhand Lions.”

The movie also features John Carroll Lynch (“Fargo,” “Zodiac,” “Shutter Island”), Jackie Earle Haley (“Bad News Bears,” “Breaking Away,” “Watchmen” and an Oscar nominee for “Little Children”) and Scoot McNairy (“Argo,” “12 Years a Slave,” “Killing Them Softly”).

Industry trade publication Variety said the movie “received massive applause and loud laughter” from the audience at the Friday the 13th premiere, and the early reviews have been positive.

“Horror is not my preferred genre, but it’s also a dark comedy,” Haidaris said. “People were laughing, and it wasn’t fake laughter. They were belly laughs. They were laughing everywhere they were supposed to.”

For Coppola, it was a dream come true.

“When I was young, I went to LA just to see if I could get into the movie business,” he said. “I was working, but I was like, ‘While I’m here, what the hell? Let me try it.’ I was 19 years old … It took me 40 years to get my name on the big screen, but I got it.”

Like many of the works at the festival, “Family Movie” was financed independently and is looking for a distributor. Haidaris said there already were encouraging signs after Friday’s premiere.

What happens next will depend on when and if the movie gets a distribution deal, but Haidaris — who promotes concert and theatrical events at multiple area venues through Sunrise Entertainment — said he would like to have a local screening of “Family Movie,” perhaps paired with a concert by the Bacon Brothers, the band Kevin Bacon has with his brother, Michael Bacon.