Box Office Report: Anti-Obama Doc Beats New Films With $6.3 Mil on Eve of GOP Convention

[still_one]

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/box-office-report-anti-obama-doc-beats-films-161221160.html

I can only believe that the majority attending this crap are the "true believers", that is the tea party bigots, or hard core republicans.

I cannot believe that independents and normal people would waste their time on this propaganda piece. If normal people are going to see a movie they are going to see The Bourne Legacy or something enjoyable.

and yahoo can go to hell for not having another view expose the lies to this piece of shit. They report it as though its a "documentary", therefore it must be factual.

I hope Google crushes their ass, and they go broke

[AtomicKitten]

1. I'll bet attendance was astroturfed by buying huge blocks of tickets

... and giving them away free to GOP-friendly.

[still_one]

2. You have a point there. The right wing machine is known to buy right books in bulk so they turn up

on the best seller list

[nxylas]

8. They probably didn't need to

Its total ticket sales to date are only 1,117,600 (source: Box Office Mojo). There are probably enough teabaggers willing to shell out for a ticket without needing to resort to that. Having said that, Fandango reported that a third of all its advance sales this weekend were for that film, which seems a tad suspicious.

[pstokely]

13. It was also a slow box office weekend

nt

[bhikkhu]

3. It was #8 this weekend, on a lame-ass movie week

"Paranorman" crushed it, for instance. http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/ .

If you look at gross sales for opening weekends over the last year, it comes in at #138, way behind a ton of movies I never even heard of. http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/past365.htm

I imagine that everyone willing to sit through that crap will have seen it now.

[still_one]

4. Glad to hear it. I think it is also interesting to know that Gerald R Molen who produced this crap

is a Mormon, obviously using this propaganda piece in hopes of helping his boy romney

[Bolo Boffin]

5. Actually $6.5 million

http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2012&wknd=34

Actuals come out later today (Monday). Its per-theater is very high, though. It was in just over 1,000 theaters.

What kills me is watching Facebook beepbopboops dutily logging on after seeing and urging people to go. I'm fortunate that I've only got one MLM person on my Facebook friends, but coming from Alabama (and attending a Bible college back when I was a Christian), I've got tons of RWNJs hawking this crap. The first one I saw, I tried to talk down out of the tree. As soon as the preacher dude realized I could actually make a better case for Jesus being an anti-capitalist over Barack Obama, he deleted the entire post. Can't be leading the sheep astray!

ETA: Take a look at the daily charts:

http://boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2012-08-26&p=.htm

Its Saturday take barely improved over Friday, and it dropped on Sunday. All shows drop on Sunday, of course, but most get a nice bounce off of Friday's numbers on Saturday. That's what propelled Will Ferrell's "The Campaign" up over D'Souza's silliness for the weekend.

It may expand out into more theaters this next week, based on another sluggish weekend for new releases and that phat per-theater, but not many more, I don't think. It's down to the faithful queuing up to get a second glass of Wyler's Grape.

ETA: Well, the actuals are out, and 2016 hit $6.5 million. "Premium Rush" ended up doing just over $6 million, so it slipped to #8 and 2016 got the #7 slot.

[nxylas]

6. MLM?

I figured out RWNJ (Right Wing Nut Job), but what's an MLM?

[Bolo Boffin]

9. Multi-Level Marketing

This one friend is all caught up in Scentzy and its subsidiary companies. Bleh.

[MrSlayer]

7. What did Fahrenheit 9/11 do its first week?

I think it did 22 million. And then over a hundred million overall. Big yawn for this.

[oberliner]

11. What about Capitalism: A Love Story?

I think this one is about even with that one.

[nxylas]

12. Box Office Mojo is your friend

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=politicaldoc.htm

However, it's a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison, since F911 opened wide on its first week, while the others opened in a few screens and went wide later.

[onethatcares]

10. how did it do against

the alaskan grifters movie?

these things always seem to come out around this time of year.

Could be something to do with the convention.

[reformist2]

14. That's less than 1 million people. In a country of 300 million.

The sad thing is that because of the nation's size, there is enough of a market for anything that there are some who can grow quite rich indeed peddling nonsense like this.

[marmar]

15. For foaming-at-the mouth right wingers, it was probably like the opening of a Batman movie.....

....... Can't you picture them in the theater, dressed up in Ayn Rand and Jerome Corsi costumes, yelling "Anti-American Kenyan Communist !!!" ?