'Moonrise Kingdom' Grosses Strong Profits Over Holiday Weekend

After making a strong opening at the annual Cannes Film Festival earlier this month, Wes Anderson's 'Moonrise Kingdom' took control of the box office in New York and Los Angeles over the Memorial Day weekend, reports the International Movie Database. 

The indepedent film was shot entirely in Rhode Island and mostly Newport County. It opens nationwide in June.

The film grossed approximately $670,000 over the four-day weekend and also racked up the highest per-location profit average for a non-animated film while playing in only four theaters, reports the Los Angeles Times.

Starring Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel, Jason Schwartzman and Bob Balaban, the film follows the tale of a young boy and girl (newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward) who fall in love and run away together while a variety of townspeople mobilize to search for them on a unique island off the coast of New England in the 1960s.

'Moonrise Kingdom' made headlines last summer when filming took place on Prudence Island and at in Portsmouth, as well as a . Several local youths were also selected to work as extras in the film. 

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