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By Todd Cunningham
TheWrap
The conservative documentary "2016: Obama's America" stole the spotlight from Sly Stallone's bad-ass geezers and three opening films at the weekend box office, on its way to an estimated $6.2 million total for the three days.
The $5,940 per-screen average posted by "2016: Obama's America" was easily the best among films playing widely. "Expendables 2"" stayed on top in its second week with $13.2 million averaging $3,950 from 3,355 theaters.
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"2016: Obama's
America" is based on conservative author Dinesh D'Souza's book, "The Roots of
Obama's Rage." D'Souza co-directed with John Sullivan. Produced for a reported
$2.1 million, it has made $9.3 million since its release seven weeks ago, and
has surpassed "Bully" as the year's top-earning documentary.
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The documentary purports to tell what things will
be like should the president be re-elected. Distributor Rocky Mountain Pictures
expanded it into 1,091 theaters just in time to cash in on the buzz surrounding
the Republican National Convention.
Director Sullivan has appeared
on Fox News and the Discovery Channel and conservative commentators Glenn Beck
and Rush Limbaugh have lauded it. Beck called it an election-season bomb,
similar to Michael Moore's 2004 film "Farenheit 9/11," which was highly critical
of President George W. Bush.
"Expendables 2" raised its overall domestic to $52.3 million, according to distributor Lionsgate. That's behind 2010's original "Expendables," which had take in $65 million at a comparable stage in its release.
It was a slow weekend at the overall box office. Universal's "Bourne Legacy" was second with $9.2 million and raised its overall gross to $85.5 million, but the weekend' new films fizzled.
Sony's bicycle chase movie "Premium Rush" took in $6.3 million from 2,255 locations, a $2,794 per-screen average. The audience was 55 percent male and 67 percent was 25 and older. The film received a "B" CinemaScore.
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"Hit & Run," from Open Road, mustered a meager $4.5 million from 2,870 locations.
The weekend's other opener, Warner Bros.' supernatural thriller "Apparation," brought in $2.9 million from 810 theaters.
"ParaNorman," the stop-action animated family film from Focus Features, was No. 3 with $8.5 million in its second week.
Warner Bros.' political comedy The Campaign" was fourth in its third week with
$7.4 million.
In its sixth week, "Dark Knight Rises" added $7.1 million to raise its
overall domestic haul to $422 million. The third film in director Christopher
Nolan's Batman trilogy has taken in $910 million worldwide for Warner Bros.
Disney's "The Odd Life of Timothy Green" brought in $7.1 million in its second week.
"Hope Springs" continued to hold strongly and took in $6 million.That's just a 34 percent drop from last week and raises its overall box office to $45 million.
Here are the weekend's top 10 films:
"Expendables 2,'
$13.2 million
"Bourne Legacy," $9.2 million
"ParaNorman," $8.5
million
"The Campaign," $7.4 million
"Dark Knight Rises," $7.1
million
"The Odd Life of Timothy Green," $7.1 million
"Premium Rush," $6.3
million
"2016: Obama's America," $6.2 million
"Hope Springs," $6
million
"Hit & Run," $4.6 million
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Hey Lowjack,
Total nonsense on your part. The film isn't a propaganda bit for Mitt Romney. It's an explanation of who Mr. Obama is, based upon his own writings and informed by his own actions, and of those he's surrounded himself with. You can reject the conclusion, which is that an America evolving into what Mr. Obama supports is a bad and oppressive thing, but it's hard to base your complaints on anything other than partisan hackery at this point given your post.
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