The movie premiere of American Beauty was made available to the public on 3 November 2006 at the Festival d'Art Contemporain in Cannes. The event featured an interesting discussion in the Panorama and the Producers Guild's Hollywood Newsroom which often led to media speculation about the nature of the movie and the identity of its US distributor, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, and its price tag. After several days of silence the film officially arrived to the United States on 2 November 2006 and became available on all major movie