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Big Hollywood
1 Sep 2012
Last weekend’s surprise 2016 Obama’s America (expanding into 1,750 theaters starting its 8th week in release) continues being helped by the Republican National Convention. The conservative political documentary should come in #5 with $1.6M today. By Monday’s end, pic will be the 5th biggest grossing political documentary, besting the $14.3M for Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) not adjusted for inflation or higher ticket prices. 2016 Obama’s America is produced by Gerald R. Molen who credits “learning some lessons” from Moore. “When he released Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004 ahead of the election, it sparked intense debate.” …
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Related: Dinesh D’Souza Takes On Leftist Pig Maher Over ‘’2016: Obama’s America.’’ at PatDollard.com
Update: On the same program, Maher defends Clint Eastwood‘s RNC appearance: “He committed to it, it was consistent, and it worked.”
H/T Ann Althouse:
Maher is speaking as a standup comedian, knowing how hard it is. Halfway through the video clip at the link, Jason Alexander — wearing William Shatner’s toupee — breaks in to say famous people could “urinate” on themselves and people would accept it as a good routine. Maher says no, at most they’d give you 1 minute to get funny; Eastwood worked that comic routine 10 minutes, successfully, and that was impressive. And Maher loathes Eastwood’s political position. So that‘s impressive.
Update 2: Dinesh D’Souza defends new movie against CNN shameful spin