The most anticipated “Felix Manalo” film that will soon be hitting 300 theaters nationwide this October 7 is reaching block buster sales even with the movie not released yet, leaving sold out cinemas.
“Felix Manalo” advance ticket sales, which were released only last September 28, after only a couple of days, ticket sales hit the roof just like Hollywood gems Avengers, Twilight, and Hunger Games series as the public, both INC members and non-INC, rushes to ticket outlets.
According to an article published, the movie with an anticipated two million viewers will definitely go down in history.
The “Felix Manalo” has been first viewed in the 55,000 seater Philippine Arena, screened using a five-storey high screen (approximately 120 meters by 40 meters) surrounded by a state of the art sound system.
“Felix Manalo” movie costs 150 million with over 120 actors led by Dennis Trillo and a massive 8,000 extras.
According to Viva Films that produced the gigantic movie, “Felix Manalo” will run in theaters for 176 minutes or almost three hours. The movie would also be released in a DVD and Blue Ray copy with the original full length of the film with 360 minutes or a total of six hours.
Joel Lamangan, the top notch director of the movie, together with the brilliant production team and a power house cast of over a hundred stars gathered in the star studded world premiere that was held yesterday, October 4 at the Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan.
Sold out tickets for the world premiere of “Felix Manalo” entitled it to take home the two Guinness World records for “the largest attendance in a film premiere” and “the largest attendance at a film screening” with a total number of 43,624 attendees.
Before this, Mr. Vincent Del Rosario III, the producer of “Felix Manalo”, said that the Philippine Arena with 55,000 seating capacity would definitely be an edge to outnumber the movie viewers who attended the premiere of Chronicles of Narnia in UK (10,000) and the screening of Honor Flight in the US (28,442).
(Eagle News Service, Written by AB Mass Communication Novinm Murillo, Edited by MRFaith Bonalos)