Box Office: Anti-Obama Movie Stuns Hollywood For #4
Anti-Obama Movie Stuns Hollywood For #4; Other Newcomers & Holdovers Weak Friday; Only ‘The Expendables 2′ Can Break $10M
By NIKKI FINKE | Saturday August 25, 2012 @ 12:52am PDT
SATURDAY AM, 3RD UPDATE: Because of Friday’s very weak box office, there was finally clarity for the Top 10 film rankings this morning. As predicted, Millenium/Lionsgate’s holdover The Expendables 2 finished in first place Friday and this weekend. It’s followed by Universal’s 2-week-old The Bourne Legacy in second place.
New movies didn’t perform. But the shocker was Rocky Mountain Pictures’ political documentary 2016 Obama’s America which expanded into theaters across America this weekend after a very limited release and wound up in 4th place. That’s stunning because it’s playing in 2/3 fewer theaters across North American than the other wide release actioners. (See below for more details). Due to its hot pre-sales, the pic is proving frontloaded, and its ranking will fall steeply by end of Sunday. But the doc made its point: its new cume after this weekend should make it the #1 conservative documentary (besting Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed’s $7.7M).
The pic is based on conservative author and commentator Dinesh D’Souza’s New York Times bestselling 2010 book The Roots Of Obama’s Rage and co-directed by D’Souza and John Sullivan and produced by Academy Award winner Gerald R. Molen (co-producer of Schindler’s List). Its success comes because of savvy marketing on the eve of the Republican National Convention August 27-30. Exhibitors are reporting busloads arriving at theaters around the country in pre-organized trips. It also employed much of the same marketing techniques used to garner attention and support for faith-based films, understandable since the audience is overlapping. Its campaign included advertising nationally over the past two weeks on talk radio and cable news channels including Fox News Channel, A&E, History and MSNBC. ”Yes, I also didn’t believe it when I first saw the film taking off in pre-sales on Tuesday,” an exhibition insider tells me. “Because there’s not a lot of new product that’s taking off.”
https://www.deadline.com/2012/08/first-box-office-anti-obama-movie-1/
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It is an even-handed, reasoned and informative look into the mind of the most narcissistic occupant of the people’s house in all of history. For those not familiar with Mr. D’Souza’s best selling book, “The Roots of Obama’s Rage”, on which the movie is based other notable writings are of extreme importance. David Fredosso’s “The Case Against Barack Obama” , Aaron Klein’s “The Manchurian President”, Michele Malkin’s “Culture of Corruption”, Michael Savage’s “Trickle Up Poverty”, Mark Levin’s “Liberty & Tyrrany” and Ed Klein’s revealing “The Amateur” all deserve a read before November.