Originally Posted by Deadline

FRIDAY 7:30 PM UPDATE: As predicted Millenium/Lionsgate’s The Expendables 2 will finish in first place Friday and this weekend. It’s followed by Universal’s The Bourne Legacy in second place and the Rocky Mountain Pictures’ documentary 2016 Obama’s Legacy in third place. That’s stunning because it’s playing in a 1/3 less theaters across North American than the other wide release actioners. (See below for more details). This is turning into the weakest weekend of Summer 2012 especially for new movies with the exception of the anti-Obama pic whose pre-sales make the conservative documentary frontloaded. Focus features holdover ParaNorman, Warner Bros’ The Campaign, and Sony newcomer Premium Rush all are bunched together Friday. Open Road’s Hit And Run (which opened Wednesday) took a hit, while Dark Castle/Warner Bros’ new release The Apparition didn’t stand a ghost of a chance as a parting present for producer Joel Silver. “It’s exhausting working with numbers this bad,” one studio exec griped tonight because no new pic may break $10M.

FRIDAY 2 PM: The anti-Obama movie 2016 Obama’s America went into wider release around America today and is opening right now in first place at the domestic box office. That’s quite a feat since the Rocky Mountain Pictures political documentary is still playing in only 1,090 North American theaters – or about 1/3 as many theaters as big-budget actioner The Expendables 2 (3,355 theaters). But these political documentaries like faith-based films are frontloaded. The Stallone picture from Millenium/Lionsgate is still expected to end the weekend #1 and should top the box office tonight. And, based on matinee trends, 2016 Obama’s America looks to gross $1.2M-$1.7M Friday for a $3.7M-$5.0M weekend. But right now it has grossed $700,000 today compared to $300,000 for The Expendables 2. Its new cume after this weekend could make it the #1 conservative documentary (ahead of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed’s $7.7M). The success of the anti-Obama pic is based on big pre-sales leading into the Republican National Convention August 27-30, and exhibitors are reporting busloads of filmgoers 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.

Both online ticket-sellers Fandango and MovieTickets.com showed advance buying for 2016 Obama’s America were accounting for 35% to 28% respectively before this weekend. 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). It opened on July 13th in a preview on a single screen in Texas grossing almost $32,000 during its opening weekend, then expanded into 61 theaters including New York and Los Angeles. In August, the film widened to 169 theaters nationwide and expanded again this weekend. “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.”

Hollywood distribution experts expect 2016 Obama’s America to fare similarly to that Kirk Cameron faith-based movie Fireproof. It was #1 in Fandango’s advance sales and did remarkably well during its opening Friday – but then ended up somewhere around #4 at the box office for the weekend.

Among other new movies, Friday and weekend estimates are as follows: Sony’s Premium Rush $2.0-$2.5M Friday and $5.5M-$7.0M weekend, Open Road’s Hit And Run (which opened Wednesday) $1.3M-$1.8M Friday and $3.6M-$5.0M weekend for a $4.6M-$6.0M cume, and Warner Bros’ The Apparition $400K-$700K Friday for a $1M-$1.7M weekend.

Hollywood distribution experts expect 2016 Obama’s America to fare similarly to that Kirk Cameron faith-based movie Fireproof. It was #1 in Fandango’s advance sales and did remarkably well during its opening Friday – but then ended up #4 at the box office.

Last weekend, 2016: Obama’s America grossed a strong $1.2M in 169 venues for a cumulative gross as of Thursday of $2.8M. It’s the #2 biggest indie documenatry of the year behind only The Weinstein Company’s Bully ($3.2 million) and already the #12 political documentary of all time. It will rise a lot higher in the rankings after this weekend.

2016 Obama’s America detractors decry it as a slick infomercial heavy with conspiracy theories. But D’Souza says he made the film to motivate moviegoers to question what an Obama second term would look like, and credits liberal documentary maker Michael Moore for the structure of the film: “When he released Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004 ahead of the election, it sparked intense debate. I learned some lessons from Michael Moore, and hopefully he might learn some lessons from me about handling facts.”

Originally Posted by Matthew Chmiel

... however, no word on if the competition will become pregnant or if they've already shut down the rape.

Too soon? No. Never too soon.



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The Christians are coming out for their hated of black people Obama, what's new? To be honest, it wasn't until the other day that I found out 2016: Obama's America was an anti-Obama film. I was actually curious to check it out and it wasn't until I looked it up on Wikipedia that I discovered it was a right-wing piece of propaganda. Maybe they should've worked on a better title.

For everything else: yikes. What an awful weekend for both new films and grosses. However, if you haven't, ParaNorman is a fantastic film despite being released at the wrong time of the year.

Originally Posted by philly1981

did the producers of coraline made paranorman ? it looks really good i wanna see it. I believe the expendables going to pick up this weekend.

Originally Posted by Matthew Chmiel

Yes and it's a lot better than Coraline. A great throwback to not only Grindhouse films, but it feels like a children's film that would've been produced in the eighties. It's daring, but has a lot of heart.

Originally Posted by scott1598

was it legitimate rape?

Originally Posted by wm lopez

Is this Obama movie the one they were talking about on HANNITY on Friday night?

Originally Posted by Matthew Chmiel

The Christians are coming out for their hated of black people Obama, what's new?

Originally Posted by Mr. Flix

You're right; the only possible reason for someone to not like Obama and his politics is because they're racist.

Originally Posted by Mr. Flix

You're right; the only possible reason for someone to not like Obama and his politics is because they're racist.

Originally Posted by Deadline

1. The Expendables 2 (Millenium/Lionsgate) Week 2 [3,355 Runs] R
Friday $3.6M (-66%), Weekend $11.7M, Cume $50.2M

2. The Bourne Legacy (Universal) Week 3 [3,652 Runs] PG13
Friday $2.5M, Weekend $8.4M, Cume $84.6M

3. 2016 Obama’s America (Rocky Mountain) NEW [1,091 Runs] PG
Friday $2.4M, Weekend $6.0M, Cume $8.9M

4. ParaNorman (Focus Features) Week 2 [3,455 Runs] PG
Friday $2.3M (-50%), Weekend $7.5M, Cume $27.1M

5. The Campaign (Warner Bros) Week 3 [3,302 Runs] R
Friday $2.1, Weekend $6.7M, Cume $62.9M

6. The Dark Knight Rises (Legendary/WB) Week 6 [2,606 Runs] PG13
Friday $2.0M, Weekend $6.8M, Cume $421.7M

7. The Odd Life Of Timothy Green (Disney) Week 2 [2,598 Runs] PG
Friday $2.0M, Weekend $6.5M, Cume $26.5M

8. Premium Rush (Sony) NEW [2,255 Runs] PG13
Friday $2.0M, Weekend $6.1M

9. Hope Springs (Sony) Week 3 [2,402 Runs] PG13
Friday $1.6M, Weekend $5.5M, Cume $44.6M

10. Hit And Run (Open Road) NEW [2,870 Runs] R
Friday $1.3M, Weekend $3.8M, Cume $4.8M

12. The Apparition (Dark Castle/WB) NEW [810 Runs]
Friday $975K, Weekend $2.6M

Originally Posted by Mr. Flix

You're right; the only possible reason for someone to not like Obama and his politics is because they're racist.

Originally Posted by Matthew Chmiel

at The Apparition. I'm surprised Warner even gave it a theatrical release, especially with it sitting at a solid 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Originally Posted by Matthew Chmiel

The Christians are coming out for their hated of black people Obama, what's new?

Originally Posted by Arpeggi

Ridiculous

Originally Posted by Artman

That's sadly the way the OP and a lot of people view and process things. I don't know if it's because they aren't capable of anything else or they just somehow enjoy it... just be thankful you're not like that.

Originally Posted by Mr. Flix

You're right; the only possible reason for someone to not like Obama and his politics is because they're racist.

Originally Posted by PatD

This Obama doc will most likely help Romney this election year, the way Fahrenheit 9/11 made John Kerry our 44th president back in 2004.

Originally Posted by Matthew Chmiel

The difference between the two, Fahrenheit 9/11 grossed $120 million.

Man, whatever happened to our 44th vice president John Edwards?

Originally Posted by majorjoe23

Wouldn't he have been our 47th vp?

Originally Posted by Matthew Chmiel

Yes and it's a lot better than Coraline. A great throwback to not only Grindhouse films, but it feels like a children's film that would've been produced in the eighties. It's daring, but has a lot of heart.