Box Office Report: Anti-Obama Doc Beats New Films With $6.3 Mil on Eve of GOP Convention

[Bolo Boffin]

5. Actually $6.5 million

http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2012&wknd=34

Actuals come out later today (Monday). Its per-theater is very high, though. It was in just over 1,000 theaters.

What kills me is watching Facebook beepbopboops dutily logging on after seeing and urging people to go. I'm fortunate that I've only got one MLM person on my Facebook friends, but coming from Alabama (and attending a Bible college back when I was a Christian), I've got tons of RWNJs hawking this crap. The first one I saw, I tried to talk down out of the tree. As soon as the preacher dude realized I could actually make a better case for Jesus being an anti-capitalist over Barack Obama, he deleted the entire post. Can't be leading the sheep astray!

ETA: Take a look at the daily charts:

http://boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2012-08-26&p=.htm

Its Saturday take barely improved over Friday, and it dropped on Sunday. All shows drop on Sunday, of course, but most get a nice bounce off of Friday's numbers on Saturday. That's what propelled Will Ferrell's "The Campaign" up over D'Souza's silliness for the weekend.

It may expand out into more theaters this next week, based on another sluggish weekend for new releases and that phat per-theater, but not many more, I don't think. It's down to the faithful queuing up to get a second glass of Wyler's Grape.

ETA: Well, the actuals are out, and 2016 hit $6.5 million. "Premium Rush" ended up doing just over $6 million, so it slipped to #8 and 2016 got the #7 slot.