Galvanizing conservatives Dinesh D’Souza and
John Sullivan’s documentary 2016: Obama's America
grossed a stellar $6.3 million as it expanded nationwide over the weekend,
beating a trio of three new films.
The anti-Barack Obama film, opening last month in only a few
theaters, now boasts a domestic cume of $9.2 million, the top gross of the year
for a documentary (excluding nature films). Bully was the previous
crownholder with $3.5 million.Among other records, Obama's America is now the top conservative documentary of all time, beating out Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed ($7.7 million).
Obama's America -- promoted heavily on talk radio and distributed by Rocky Mountain Pictures -- timed its nationwide expansion to the Republican National Convention, which gets underway this week in Tampa, Fla.
Otherwise, it was a dismal weekend for new offerings. Holdovers dominated the box office chart, led by Lionsgate and Millennium Films' The Expendables, which grossed $13.5 million in its second weekend for a 10-day domestic cume of $52.3 million.
Sony's new Joseph Gordon-Levitt action thriller Premium Rush came in No. 8, opening to a muted $6.3 million. The film cost just north of $30 million to produce and is directed by noted screenwriter David Koepp, who co-wrote the script with John Kamps.
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