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It’s really starting to take off now and it’s being shown in more and more venues. I hope it’s around here soon!
. The Top Ten based on Friday estimates:
- The Expendables 2 (Millenium/Lionsgate) Week 2 [3,355 Runs] R
Friday $3.7M (-64%), Weekend $12.3M, Cume $51.2M
- The Bourne Legacy (Universal) Week 3 [3,652 Runs] PG13
Friday $2.7M, Weekend $8.8M, Cume $84.9M
- ParaNorman (Focus Features) Week 2 [3,455 Runs] PG
Friday $2.3M (-50%), Weekend $7.8M, Cume $27.5M
- 2016 Obama’s America (Rocky Mountain) NEW [1,091 Runs] PG
Friday $2.2M, Weekend $5.7M, Cume $8.6M
- The Campaign (Warner Bros) Week 3 [3,302 Runs] R
Friday $2.2, Weekend $7.0M, Cume $64.2M
- The Odd Life Of Timothy Green (Disney) Week 2 [2,598 Runs] PG
Friday $2.0M (-40%), Weekend $6.8M, Cume $26.8M
- The Dark Knight Rises (Legendary/WB) Week 6 [2,606 Runs] PG13
Friday $2.0M, Weekend $7.0M, Cume $422.1M
- Premium Rush (Sony) NEW [2,255 Runs] PG13
Friday $1.9M, Weekend $5.6M
- Hope Springs (Sony) Week 3 [2,402 Runs] PG13
Friday $1.7M, Weekend $5.6M, Cume $44.6M
- Hit And Run (Open Road) NEW [2,870 Runs] R
Friday $1.4M, Weekend $4.3M, Cume $5.5M
- The Apparition (Dark Castle/WB) NEW [810 Runs]
Friday $1.1K, Weekend $3.2M
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 actioner The Expendables 2 (3,355 theaters). But these political documentaries like faith-based films are frontloaded. The Stallone pic from Millenium/Lionsgate still will end Friday and the weekend #1.
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. 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. 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.
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.
