'Living Life Lives Large During Opening Weekend Box Office
The highly anticipated debut of the feature film "Living Life" showed tremendous life at the box office during its opening weekend run at the Seattle Landmark Metro 10 Theatre in Seattle, Washington.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 13, 2005 -- The highly anticipated debut of the feature film Living Life showed tremendous life at the box office during its opening weekend run at the Seattle Landmark Metro 10 Theatre in Seattle, Washington.
Playing exclusively on one screen at the Seattle Landmark Metro 10 Theatre, Living Life hit a per screen, per location average of $4,270, enough to rank it #8 in the nation for overall per screen earnings.
Living Life also ended up in second place locally at the Seattle Landmark Metro 10, just behind the widely released Sahara. Living Life also ranked #97 nationally.
Living Life is a true triumph in independent filmmaking and marks the breakthrough directorial debut of the films talented writer, producer and director -- nineteen-year-old, Jesse Harris. Financed entirely by the young film makers college fund and based on a script Jesse wrote back in high school, Living Life was acquired and is being distributed by Los Angeles based FilmMates Entertainment.
Living Life tells the story of a high school junior who, after being diagnosed with cancer, must learn to deal with the situation and must change his perspective on life to help pull disparate members of his family closer together.
Living Life was written and directed by Ballard High School graduate, nineteen year-old Jesse Harris and stars Seattle actors Benjamin P. Garman, Dick Arnold, Mara Hansen, Patrick Chu, Kevin Huber, Brynne Garman.
Critical reaction to the film has also been tremendously positive. Some recent reactions in the press to Living Life.
Impossible not to root hard for Living Life," and A real care for story and heartfelt sincerity," by Robert Horton, The Everett Herald.
We have found our next greatest generation," by P. Scott Cummins of The News in Seattle, Washington.
Harris has talent to burn," by Tom Keogh, of The Seattle Times.
We are very pleased with the way this film has performed thus far. Hopefully, the word will continue to spread the magic of this little film with a big heart! Every family should see this movie," says Jay Malla Maldonado, Senior VP Development and Business Strategy.
FilmMates Entertainment is a Los Angeles based film finance, production and distribution entity that acquires projects in various stages of production and assures their worldwide sales and distribution via an in-house sales department. FilmMates Entertainment was founded in November 2001 as a small film fund acquiring low budget movies from promising, up-and-comer filmmakers. FilmMates Entertainment is currently developing a large slate of projects from established producers and is negotiating distribution deals for its recently acquired 39-film library.
For Additional Information please contact:
Press Inquiries:
Phillip Nakov
City PR
818-985-0132
Phillip@CityPR-LA.com
Production and Distribution Inquiries:
Jeanette Buerling
FilmMates Entertainment
310-578-6599
JeanetteBuerling@FilmMates.net
www.livinglifethemovie.com
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