Today’s Deseret News has published an entitled ‘Transamerica’ not set for Megaplex, about a rumor that Miller’s Megaplex had an ad in a local GLBT newspaper for a “controversial” movie that was then pulled. Here is the article:
A movie about a pre-operative, male-to-female transsexual has not been pulled from Larry Miller’s Megaplex 17 theater, contrary to a report on a Web site.
“This film was not pulled from the theater because it was never scheduled to be shown — it’s not scheduled to be in that theater,” said Sarah Rothman, spokeswoman for The Weinstein Company in New York.
The movie, “Transamerica,” is planned for eventual release in the Salt Lake market, Rothman said, but there is no date set for the movie’s arrival here. “I don’t have a specific theater in mind yet,” she added.
However, Salt Lake Metro, which bills itself as Utah’s gay and lesbian biweekly newspaper, said on its Web site, http://www.slmetro.com, that the movie had been advertised on an Internet site for Miller’s theater and then the ad was reportedly removed over the weekend. The newspaper cited another Web site as its source for news of the cancellation.
Calls to a theater representative and a spokesman for Miller were not returned.
Miller’s Jordan Commons theater has received international attention for pulling “Brokeback Mountain,” a movie about two gay cowboys.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 