‘Milk’ biography wins Producers Guild award
Gus Van Sant’s film biography “Milk” is receiving the Producers Guild of America’s Stanley Kramer Award, which honors pictures that take on provocative social issues.
The prize announced Monday will be presented at the guild’s awards show Jan. 24.
The Kramer Award is named after the filmmaker whose works include “The Defiant Ones,” “Judgment at Nuremberg” and [...]
MILK MOVIE BECOMING ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME PHENOMENON
Look beyond “Twilight” and “Four Christmases,” and you’ll see that it was a small-budget Gus Van Sant film that hauled in four times their per-screen averages this past weekend while entering the top 10 on only 36 screens.
Read the reviews, listen to the Oscar hype or check the news, and you might find it hard [...]
Long-delayed ‘Milk’ now looks timely
Long before making “Milk,” the film that opened Wednesday about the life and death of openly gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, director Gus Van Sant imagined a scene in which the voluble, charismatic Milk was dressed as Ronald McDonald. In that version, Dan White, a fellow city supervisor who shot and killed Milk and [...]
‘Twilight’ director Hardwicke says sequel is on the way
With Twilight’s nearly $70 million opening last weekend, Catherine Hardwicke became the female director with the biggest debut. USA TODAY asks the filmmaker about the movie’s rise and future, including the pending sequel and some questions from readers.
Q: All the major players have signed on for the sequel, expected in 2010. What plans do you [...]
Inspiring ‘Milk’ comes at just the right time
Unabashedly liberal, plainly impassioned and perhaps a bit too epic while still undeniably inspiring, “Milk” is a film in which gay means gay.
This isn’t about two cowpokes who happen to fall in love; this is about the civil rights of men who love men and women who love women.
It’s also about one such man, Harvey [...]
Prop 8 Boycotts Target Cinemark, Twilight
Cinemark theatre chain CEO Alan Stock shelled out $9,999 to pass Prop. 8 in California, but will his theatre chain profit from ticket sales for the forthcoming release of Milk? Not if a group of people on the web have anything to say about it.
NoMilkforCinemark.com is dedicated to convincing ticket buyers to see Milk at [...]
