No one’s really stepped up to organize a formal boycott of Cinemark at Sundance yet, but now there’s an official boycott of Milk at Cinemark theaters.
Check out the website here.
The CEO of Cinemark, Alan Stock, donated $9999 to the Yes on 8 Campaign, but will now profit from showing MILK in his theaters.
If 1,000 of us commit to see MILK at a competitor’s theater instead of Cinemark, at an average cost of $10 per ticket, that’s $10,000 of lost revenue.
Cinemark owns Century Theater, CineArts and Tinseltown.
What do you guys think?
Were you planning to see Milk?
Will you see it at a different theater now?
I wasn’t planning on seeing it in the theater but I might just to make a dent in this Asshat’s pockets. What a douche.
never heard of the movie before, but now im thinking about checking it out at cinemark. i dont understand why people cant accept the fact that california passed prop 8… i mean HELLO? this is getting annoying now. just get over it plain and simple. also, ive been dining at coyotes more often and im loving the food even more
@ haha
What if someone voted to took away your marriage (if you’re married or hope to marry someday), or some other right that is equally as important to you?
I don’t you’d lackadaisically be saying, “get over it,” then. I think you’d be pissed.
@Bia
I’ll say it: “Get over it”. Start a new proposition drive to overturn Proposition 8. Nobody likes whiners or losers. We have two years to convince people that Proposition 8 was a mistake.
I was going to watch it and I still am. I might have to cover my eyes when Franco and Penn make out… but that’s just an ode to the fact that I want to be able to see them again without picturing them making out with each other. Haha.
@ haha: I’m guessing there is a lot that you don’t understand about people…you should continue to work on that without getting frustrated and annoyed.
Yes, haha, it’s so annoying that people want their civil rights. Annoying, annoying, annoying. Thank goodness we didn’t have to sit around and listen to it when women or blacks wanted the right to vote! Imagine how exhausting it would have been. Just tiring to the very core.
I’ll be watching Milk at the beautiful Castro Theater in SF, where it all went down in the first place. God, I love it here.
shit, and i thought ‘milk’ was the true story about elsie the magic fucking cow. now my fuckin’ granny is shore nuff’ gonna be pissed when she hears it’s about murderin’ queers. count me and granny in beet, we’ll just fire up the still and get wasted on moonshine and find some first cousins to fuck instead of givin’ this fat cat our hard earned dollars fer sure.
re; alanna
‘went down’ at the castro theater?
oh no you didn’t!
from now on, i will try my very best to avoid going to ANY of cinemark owned theaters, and i’m going to pass this on to my friends and families. i hope he is sitting in a room, regretting the choice he made.
Sean Penn couldn’t act his way off a paper plate.
alanna, good call!! I think I will do that too!!
and haha, I guess everyone already yelled at you— but maybe you SHOULD see it, at any movie theatre. maybe you would fucking learn something from it. and FYI, if you start your homophobic poo-pooing during a screening, I hope all the gays and gay lovers like myself throw shit at you.
I wasn’t planning on seeing it anyway, but I wouldn’t try to ruin someone for having a valid political belief.
Gus Van Sant is GOD!
@JorgeMacD, valid political belief?????????
I really don’t think a yes on prop8 can ever be called political, let alone valid.
cinemark shouldn’t benefit from content it publicly condemns. hypocrites.
i will definitely see it! i love james franco
and here in salt lake its playing at a theater owned by the salt lake film society so i’m covered!
Since this report speaks directly about the movie “MILK” and its relevance to today’s issues, it seems worth remembering Milk’s own feelings with Proposition 6. He felt that, if Prop. 6 was passed, that the gay community would rise up in an angry and perhaps violent offensive that would have been entirely understandable. The unfinished business of Milk’s time is still affecting us today and it this generation’s responsibility to carry it forward.
We are not in the midst of a polite debate. We are not haggling over a trinket in a foreign bazaar. Prop 8 singles out gays. It strips them of rights. It undermines the very foundations of the Constitution of the country – which has no relationship to biblical belief or religious fanaticism. If gays are going to be singled out through the passage of this proposition, then the supporters of it should expect to be targeted themselves. If they are in positions of power, such as CEO of Cinemark, then the foundations of their power ought to be attacked and brought down.
Cinemark is fair game as is the Mormon Church. We are not engaged in a friendly disagreement. These people have mobilized to strip Americans they don’t like or respect of their civil rights. That’s not politics. That is war. Gays have learned how to fight back and we ought to throw our full fury at individuals who funded this fight against us AND their power bases – period.
Civil Rights or Civil War. Gay Rights Now!