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'Milk' draws big b.o. despite limited release
'Milk' draws big b.o. despite limited release
The specialty market featured an especially impressive opening this weekend, as Focus Features milked its limited release of Gus Van Sant's "Milk" with stunning success. The biopic about assassinated San Francisco gay pol Harvey Milk tabulated $1.4 million in three-day boxoffice from just 36 ...
Movie Review | 'Milk': Freedom Fighter in Life Becomes Potent Symbol in Death
Movie Review | 'Milk': Freedom Fighter in Life Becomes Potent Symbol in Death
movies.nytimes.com — Harvey Milk was an intriguing, inspiring figure. And “Milk” is a marvel. >... (more) Movie Review | 'Milk': Freedom Fighter in Life Becomes ...
Milk Money
blogs.indiewire.com — A complete rundown of how the film's been doing at the box office after the jump....... (more) Milk Money
Milk | 575 Castro St.
filminfocus.com — Director s Note The San Francisco Gay Film Festival came into existence in February 1977 when a... self-described ragtag bunch of hippie fag filmmakers got together and projected their Super8 short films on a bed sheet at San Francisco s old Gay ... (more) Milk | 575 Castro St.
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'Milk' Limited Release Tears it Up!
FilmWad — ... Limited release of Gus Van Sant's Milk tears up the box office.  According to The Hollywood Reporter the film made $1.4 million in three day release in only 36 inaugural engagements. ...

Milk Breaks Limited Release Record. Trade Roughage 12/01/08
SpoutBlog — ... Before getting to that supposed “disappointing” debut of Australia, let me first congratulate Milk for cracking the top 10 while opening on only 34 screens. The film’s five-day Thanksgiving Weekend total gross is $1.9 million, meaning its per-screen average was an unbelievable (and apparently record-breaking) $51,833. Meanwhile, fellow limited-release powerhouse Slumdog Millionaire was kept at bay at 11th place, though its per-screen average continues to amaze at more than $36,000. ...

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New Photos: Gus Van Sant’s Milk
slashfilm.com 10/14/2008 — Focus Features has released 13 new production photos from Gus Van Sant’s Milk. The film will premiere in San Francisco next week at the historic Castro Theatre. Check out 12 more photos after the jump. Official Plot ...
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Movie Review - 'Milk'
getthebigpicture.net 11/26/2008 — Sean Penn stars as slain gay activist and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk in a bio-pic that blindly stumbled into great timing with California's recent passage of Prop 8.
Milk premiere.
daily.greencine.com 10/29/2008 — "The guests came to the Castro Theatre on Tuesday dressed in Levi's and designer dresses, '70s-chic velvet jackets and drag-queen heels and glitter," reports Steven Winn for the San Francisco Chronicle . "It looked like a glamorous early start on ...
Milk, round 1.
daily.greencine.com 11/5/2008 — " Milk , written by Dustin Lance Black and directed by Gus Van Sant , is the first great film to look at civil rights from the perspective of the gay movement," writes the Hollywood Reporter 's Kirk Honeycutt . "The subject, of course, is the late, ...
MILK and Irony
blog.spout.com 11/25/2008 — Irony held center stage at the press conference for Milk , Gus Van Sant’s passionate biopic about the first openly gay man elected to higher office in the United States, that took place at The Regency Hotel in Manhattan a little more than two weeks ...
Milk | Overview
filminfocus.com 10/17/2008 — MILK Check out videos, photos, and behind the scenes information from the official film site for Milk, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco. HOME STORY CAST AND CREW PHOTOS VIDEOS ...
Milk, round 2.
daily.greencine.com 11/29/2008 — "While not up there in the annals of transformation with Robert De Niro 's poundage or Daniel Day-Lewis 's palsy, Sean Penn 's smile lines in Milk are a wonder," writes David Edelstein in New York . "They're not crinkles, they're furrows; they ...
Gus Van Sant's Milk Has Just Become So Much More Relevant
firstshowing.net 11/6/2008 — It wasn't a victory for everyone yesterday. I really hate mixing politics and journalism, but I can't help it today, because I feel like I need to promote Gus Van Sant's Milk even more based on the results of the election in California. For ...