Milk – Reason to celebrate!
In the photo above, actor Sean Penn (playing Harvey Milk) celebrates atop a car in the movie, Milk. The photo is one of 13 officially released images from Focus Features.
indieWIRE — Gus Van Sant’s “Milk” scored a huge Thanksgiving opening, according to initial estimates from Rentrak early this afternoon. The Focus Features release, a biopic of gay rights activist Harvey Milk, grossed $1,381,484 on just 36 screens over the three-day weekend, for a $38,375 average. This ranks as the highest opening weekend for any film released in the range of 30-40 theaters (a record previously held by Focus’ “Atonement”). Since opening last Wednesday, “Milk” has taken in an impressive $1,866,079.
We planned on seeing the film at the Angelika theater in Dallas this past Saturday. Our plans came crashing down when Jake received a phone call requiring his network support skills due to an emergency at a large company. He’s not on call this coming weekend so we’ll have to see Milk then during it’s wide release opening weekend. We were saddened that we couldn’t be part of the limited release but were happy to learn the movie did extremely well.
In an interview with indieWire James Schamus, Focus CEO said they are enjoying the numbers and it’s cause for celebration. But even more cause for joy is the film itself.
James Schamus – “Honestly, if it was just me and my kids in the theater this weekend, I’d still be just as proud to know that Focus had even a small role to play in the creation of Gus Van Sant’s masterpiece.”
More great news are the exit polls which shows a mix of Milk goers to be over and under 35 and mixed between male, female, gay and straight. Milk also made the overall box office top ten list on its meager 36 screen limited release.
Focus Features reports that Milk is prepared both successfully and competitively for the upcoming Friday, Dec. 5 expansion – wide release, due to the Thanksgiving holiday weekend success.
In the clip below, Manny interviews James Franco who plays Scott Smith, Harvey Milk’s (Sean Penn) boyfriend-partner in the movie, Milk.
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I saw it and loved it. Recommended for all especially after the ca prop 8 win. Everyone needs to see this movie.
Hey!, thanks for the good “urs In A Record Weekend” post. Would it be possible, that i can write a story about this post in our local newspaper? I would be really happy if i can do this and i will give you a link from a german blog too. Please answer. Greetings Goldpreise
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