The specialty box office is thankful indeed after a lengthy and troubling downturn. In its debut over the five-day Thanksgiving frame, Gus Van Sant’s Sean Penn topliner “Milk” broke into the B.O. top ...

“I always thought the Castro was a Cuban restaurant in San Francisco,” says Emile Hirsch, 23, who plays Cleve Jones in Gus Van Sant’s Harvey Milk biopic, Milk. The elfin actor, who became a critical ...

Published February 23, 2009 Last night at the 81st annual Academy Awards ceremony, both Sean Penn and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black took home the iconic statue for their work in Milk, the film about ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Milk" lost the battle for the best film Oscar on Sunday, but a day later activists say it has won a lasting place in U.S. culture wars by energizing mostly young, gay men and ...

With Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco, and Alison Pill. The opening credits of Milk, Gus Van Sant’s biopic of the slain gay-rights leader Harvey Milk, play out against ...