Bringing Marshall's Miracle To Beverly Hills

A little over a year ago, I was standing in a field outside of a house in Illinois chatting with Bill Chott, Dana Daniels and Zach Louis.  Zach and I had been in Illinois and Missouri for a few weeks while Zach was filming a movie called "Marshall The Miracle Dog". Dana was in town visiting us. Just like us, Bill was a California actor who was working on the film in his former home of St. Louis. We were chatting about mutual friends and how odd it was to build a career in California only to find ourselves back in the Midwest working on the film.

After returning home to California, we kept in touch with the friends we made on the Marshall crew. We were able to keep track of the movie's post-production process and even watch a screener of the film online earlier this year.  There were a few ads in some of the Hollywood trade magazines announcing a distribution deal for the movie but no concrete news about a release date for the film.

All of that changed earlier this month.

As I type these words, the movie is playing in 14 of the Top 20 cities across the country.  The film is now called "Marshall's Miracle" but it still tells the inspiring story of a dog who wouldn't give up despite incredible odds against him.  Marshall himself headed to Chicago to celebrate the release of his movie.  The film's director, Jay Kanzler, traveled to Los Angeles to bring the story of Marshall to the Music Hall 3 Movie Theater in Beverly Hills.

Many of the Los Angeles based actors that appear in the film attended the Saturday afternoon screening.  Zach Louis (the bully), Bill Chott (his father), Dingani Beza (the baseball coach) and Matthew Settle (the doctor who saves Marshall's life) were all on hand to celebrate the release of the film.  The Marshall movie is Zach's first appearance on the big screen and I was excited to see how he looks bigger than life.

The marquee of the Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills

Channeling his bully character to torment the character of Finn (again)

Not sure why his eyes are closed by he seems happy to be there

Acting like a tough guy on the big screen

Riding to the rescue

Is the character of Luke regretting his actions or is Zach the actor wondering what's for lunch?

Dingani Beza, Bill Chott and Zach Louis before heading inside to watch the movie

I hope you get a chance to see "Marshall's Miracle" during its run in theaters.  If not, Marshall lands on DVD, VOD, PPV and other formats with initials in early October.

It was kind of crazy to see this actor on the big screen.