We are planning to see it Monday -- have to run into Bellingham anyway so will see it and then get a bite to eat.
Some interesting news from Deadline Hollywood:
Anti-Obama Movie Stuns Hollywood For #4; Other Newcomers & Holdovers Weak Friday; Only �The Expendables 2′ Can Break $10MThere the liberals go again -- just being silly. It is not an anti-Obama film. Instead, it is a film that shows the truth about Obama's childhood and who shaped his world views and his ideology. The fact that this presents a negative portrait is not anti anyone. It just shows that we have a President whose teachers and mentors had values that were counter to the core values of the United States and that he is not a reasoned thinker, instead he is an ideologue, set in his ways. Looking forward to Monday.
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.�
