John Travolta and his wife, Kelly Preston, thank the public for their support during the red carpet event at the Hollywood 16 Theaters before the start of Travolta's latest movie "Savages," on June 30.The final numbers are in for the June 30 Ocala premiere of “Savages.”
The event anchored by John Travolta and Kelly Preston raised nearly $85,000, according to Lisa Lombardo, spokeswoman for the event.
The money will be split between the Boys & Girls Club of Marion County, Munroe Regional Medical Center Foundation, College of Central Florida Foundation’s Jett Travolta Scholarship fund (awarded to performing arts students), Ocala Police Department’s drug-prevention programs and Never Say Never, an Ocala organization that helps disabled people participate in sports, attend camps and obtain prosthetics.
Money came from ticket sales for the $150-per-guest reception at CF and the screening of “Savages,” the Oliver Stone thriller in which Travolta plays a corrupt DEA agent. The event put Ocala alongside Los Angeles and New York City as the only places to screen the film a week or more before it opened.
“It’s a very big deal to get a studio to allow a film a week before to be shown ANYWHERE,” Travolta told the Star-Banner last month. “I could not believe, honestly, that Universal was so kind to let me show ‘Savages’ a week before (in Ocala). It blew me away. I mean New York was happy to get it early.”
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