Do political leaders get to see early screenings of movies?

Just knowing certain people can get you into all kinds of screenings. When I lived in Los Angeles I was friends with an aspiring screenwriter who worked as a production assistant (pretty much the lowest possible job title) at a major studio. He was able to get into several different kinds of screenings and invited me onto "the lot" a few times to attend such events. Advance screenings are not always great events. Often there are no celebrities, you might not even see the final cut of the movie, which means it might not be a very good version of the film, and they are often shown in a small, drab screening room in some random building in the corner of the production company lot.

With that in mind, anyone in a position to know any Hollywood celebrity is probably getting invites to all kinds of things, including advance screenings and premiers. That means that many politicians, epecially those who rub elbows with more politically-minded celbrities, are probably being invited to screenings. Politicians who have movies made in their districts or by their constituents are probably invited to different movie-related events.

The ironic thing is, once you're above a certain level of importance, you are too busy to attend such events, or at least you want to appear too busy, so the top executives in Hollywood and other VIPs pretty much never go to all the little events that they could attend if they wanted to. So politicians who are invited to entertainment industry events probably attend very few of them, if any, either because they are busy or they at least want to appear to be busy and/or working hard. At the same time, for an event that might help a politician's image, they are much more likely to attend if invited and even try to get an invite.