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INSIDE WORD | Schamus Defending "Milk" Plan
indieWIRE Recent —
... In San Francisco today for the gala premiere of Gus Van Sant's "Milk," Focus Features CEO James Schamus in a letter to The Hollywood Reporter -- criticized a trade report and subsequent blog buzz taking his company to task for its release plan for the film. During a conversation with indieWIRE late this afternoon, Schamus defended the distribution strategy and called today's gala event, "The biggest night of all of our professional lives." iW will have more on the film, the premiere and the release strategy tomorrow morning ...
Focus Features is Confident in Milk's Marketing Strategy
FirstShowing.net —
... wrote an article claiming that Focus Features, the distributor for the film, was hiding it in order to avoid political backlash, considering it's about the story of the first openly gay man elected to major public office in America. In response, Focus Feature's CEO James Schamus wrote a letter (which was published on indieWIRE) criticizing them for writing an article that didn't have its facts straight and put an unnecessary negative spin on the buzz. ...
More Milk shakeups and media shakedowns
Awards Daily —
... a fair trade-off, right? An Obama loss for a Sean Penn win. Screw gay marriage so long as robbing gay people of their right helps Milk gets a Best Picture nomination. Big shout out to Ozcar-nozzle Steven Zeitchik as the frontrunner contender for Ass-Hat Analysis of the Year.
Producer James Schamus lays into THR after the jump.
Schamus was not amused, and here’s part of his letter to The Hollywood RumorMill Reporter via Indiewire:
Schamus Defends “Milk” Plan; Criticizes Hollywood ...
Milk, W, and the Value of Noise
SpoutBlog —
... Focus chief James Schamus was, apparently, pretty upset by the story, particularly considering that it was timed to hit the web just under 24 hours before Milk’s premiere, a benefit screening at the Castro Theater in San Francisco. He’s written a letter to the editor of THR, which Eugene Hernandez posted on his blog last night before the Milk screening. The gist: Milk wasn’t ready in time for fall festivals, they don’t have enough prints yet to do widespread screening but they will, the entire internet has been going batshit crazy for ...
Hollywood Riffs: Sam Mendes Directing ‘Preacher,’ His ‘Revolutionary Road’ Called ‘A Modern Classic’
Fataculture —
... of Pixar’s upcoming “Up,” not that I plan on reading it. CEO of Focus Features gives The Hollywood Reporter what it had coming all along, and I’m loving it. [ indieWIRE ] Paul Schrader’s “Adam Resurrected,” which played at Telluride, Toronto and will bow at AFI on the 8th of November, has been scheduled for an Oscar qualifying run in December in NY/LA, as the filmmakers want to see star Jeff Goldblum, who plays a once magician and circus freak (?) from Berlin who is a patient at a rehab centre for Holocaust survivors, right into contention for Best Actor. [ ...
