October
29
Milk Premieres in San Francisco
Focus Features had a plan: mount the world premiere of Milk, the gay agitprop biopic about San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, on the 30th anniversary of his death, at the famed Castro Theatre, in San Francisco. Universal's specialty distrib, which also released Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, held off on showing the pic to the press (except for some long-lead folks) until the same day as the SF launch Tuesday night. Here's Pamela McClintock, William Horberg's blog report, Greencine and A.P. :
Van Sant said he had been talking about making this film for 18 years."He's an American hero," Van Sant said. "He's a great example of a man representing his community and his city."
Holding off the press until the premiere led to some accusations that the distrib was hiding the pic. Au contraire. Now the floodgates will be unleashed. I missed the screenings Tuesday: all I'm hearing is that it's Sean Penn's picture.
[Photo by William Horberg]
The premiere benefited multiple charities supporting LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) youth. SF mayor Gavin Newsom and his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom hosted the after-party at City Hall. CEO of Focus Features James Schamus attended along with Van Sant, Penn and Robin Wright Penn, Milk stars Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin (with wife Diane Lane), Diego Luna, Alison Pill, and James Franco; writer Dustin Lance Black; Milk producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen; Milk exec producer Michael London; Casey Affleck; T.R. Knight; Lars Ulrich and Connie Nielsen; Diane Baker; Peter Coyote; David LaChapelle; Chris Columbus; Armistead Maupin; Senator Barbara Boxer; Universal execs Ron Meyer, Marc Shmuger, David Linde and Rick Finkelstein.
Focus will release Milk will on Wednesday, November 26th in select cities including NY, LA, and SF before expanding in December.
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