The website that covers the latest television and movie programs is Rotten Tomatoes!Conservatives once again need President Barack Obama to sell their stupid books. They need him to promote their stupid events. They need him to promote their stupid movies and television programs. They need him to inspire a lackluster Republican base to come out in droves to vote him out of the White House.
The right wing needs to Obama. It makes them very rich!
Conservatives love to agitate White people with rhetoric that paints President Barack Obama as some radical racist who wants to take money from those hard working Americans.
We got it. We understand the plight of the overpaid agitator.
Dinesh D’Souza, a conservative activist born to Indian immigrants has put forth a movie that explores the "radical roots" of President Barack Obama, and it's being played in the movie theaters across the country. To be clear, The Drudge Report, a conservative news agitating website is going great distances to promote this movie. And even though, it's likely going to be a huge bomb in ticket sales, D'Souza is going to make his movie blend into the barrage of anti-Obama attack ads this 2012 U.S. Presidential Election.
The Hollywood Reporter, a celebrity news agitating website claims that the documentary did an impressive box office sale in the state of Texas. Go figure!
The writer, Paul Bond noted that this anti-Obama movie featured the half-brother of the president. The Kenyan man named George Obama gets interviewed by D'Souza in the film. Obama is apparently attacking his half-brother in this movie. Of course, the theme of the conservatives is about this half-brother living in a hut, and President Barack Obama is living in the White House not concerned about him. Spending the country's money for his personal needs and letting the American people starve. That's apparently how conservatives paint the president. They don't care about his half-brother. This either equals to either being a birther theme controversy or a class warfare attack!
Now I am one person tired of explaining it to the average conservative! I am not the raging liberal activist hell bent on seeing the total destruction of the White male or the successes of conservatism. I am an average moderate who has views that blend with the way of society. It's nothing personal, but I am the type of person who has tired of the negative crap that comes from the agitators of the political right.
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| Dinesh D'Souza is a conservative activist and person of color who writes books that target President Barack Obama and those who support him and his 2012 presidential campaign. |
Sources say some moviegoers sat in the aisles Thursday and waited as much as 90 minutes to meet D’Souza and Gerald Molen, one of the Oscar-winning producers of Schindler’s List, who was a co-producer of 2016 along with Doug Sain. For some of its regular showings over the weekend, the theater offered 2016 on multiple screens, including three sold-out auditoriums for the 7 p.m. Friday showing.
If the weekend estimate from the movie’s distributor, Rocky Mountain Pictures, holds when final numbers are reported Monday, the film will have bested the per-theater number posted by the Al Gore documentary about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, which opened to $123,549 in four theaters in 2006 for a per-theater average of $30,887.
That film, which had the benefit of a mainstream distributor in Paramount Vantage and, eventually, two Oscar wins, went on to earn $24 million domestically. The box-office record for politically-charged documentaries is held by Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, which grossed $119 million domestically in 2004. It opened on a Wednesday, in just two theaters, taking in $83,922 on its first day, for a one-day, per-theater average of $41,961. Still, for any documentary to pass the $25,000-per-theater mark on its opening weekend represents an unusually strong showing, according to box office observers.
The management at the Regal Entertainment-owned theater did receive some complaints over its decision to present 2016. “The theater manager said they received a lot of phone calls from people arguing they shouldn’t show the movie,” Sain said. “His response was, ‘We don’t make movies, we just show them.’ “
According to Sain, the manager compared the reaction to 2016 to that of Fahrenheit 9/11, but said it was not as dramatic as some complaints over The Passion of the Christ that same year. The manager told Sain that during the controversial Mel Gibson film people went into the theater to try to disrupt the film and that it was necessary to have security remove them.
“So they weren’t flying by the seat of their pants with 2016. They know how to respond to controversy,” Sain said.
Regal spokesman Russ Nunley said some people “were around the box office wearing pro Obama tees to express their view.” But he said the protest was “very low key and not confrontational.” He also said theater managers received “many positive comments thanking them for playing the film.”
At the Houston theater over the weekend, only The Amazing Spider-Man and Ice Age: Continental Drift grossed more than 2016, according to Sain.
“We’re getting tremendous media coverage and box office results. More than, frankly, we ever hoped for,” Sain said. “We thought we’d be really lucky with $15,000 for the entire week, but we doubled that in just this weekend.”
2016 had been scheduled to expand to 120 theaters on July 27, but Sain said he’s confident that Rocky Mountain Pictures can bump it to about 400 theaters given the initial popularity of the film.
Email: paul.bond@thr.com
Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter
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