Fahrenheit 9/11 No. 1 at box office
 

LOS ANGELES - Michael Moore?s ?Fahrenheit 9/11? took in a whopping $21.8 million in its first three days, becoming the first documentary ever to debut as Hollywood?s top weekend film.

If Sunday?s estimates hold when final numbers are released Monday, ?Fahrenheit 9/11? would set a record in a single weekend as the top-grossing documentary ever outside of concert films and movies made for huge-screen IMAX theaters.

Adding the film?s haul at two New York City theaters where it opened Wednesday, two days earlier than the rest of the country, boosted ?Fahrenheit 9/11? to $21.96 million.

?Bowling for Columbine,? Moore?s 2002 Academy Award-winning documentary, previously held the documentary record with $21.6 million during its nine-month theather run.

?Fahrenheit 9/11,? Moore?s assault on President Bush?s actions after the 2001 terrorist attacks, won the top honor at last month?s Cannes Film Festival and has attracted attention from both sides in the presidential campaign.

The movie has been embraced by left-wing groups, which mobilized members to see it during the opening weekend. Conservative groups sought to discourage theaters from showing it and asked the Federal Election Commission to examine its ads for potential violations of campaign-finance law regulating when commercials may feature a presidential candidate.

?I want to thank all the right-wing organizations out there who tried to stop the film, either from their harassment campaign that didn?t work on the theater owners, or going to the FEC to get our ads removed from television, to all the things that have been said on television,? Moore said. ?It?s only encouraged more people to go and see it.?

?Fahrenheit 9/11? opened in 868 theaters, a wide release for a documentary but narrow compared to big Hollywood flicks. The film averaged $25,115 a theater, compared to $7,190 in 2,726 cinemas for ?White Chicks.?

Mmmm.. interesting! At least it may have got some folks thinking!

alt.binaries.x hint hint

now comes the interesting stuff. With numbers like that it will expand out to more theatres in the coming week. It will be interesting to see if it can hold it's steam

I bet this will be way bigger than his last big documentary

i think everyone needs to see this film if the hype is to be believed

Spiderman comes out next weekend, so it will drop hard, but it will continue to make money for a long time.

Its about as much as a documentary as Garfield the movie.

Say the republican ass kissers.

that is true... and its so very sad, that people are going to see Spiderman 2 before they go and see something that will let them know of whats going on in our country (or lack there of)


Spiderman rocks tho :thumbsup

what parts of it did you find the most Garfield like? Or haven't you actually watched it

Where are all the Moore bashers that said last week the film would die, not even be close to " Bowling for ... " ????

Search is off, too bad. Could rub some nose....

facts are facts

man michael moore is gonna have a massive heart attack
or fall off a bridge or crash his car soon

kind of like all the people who were going to testify
about the princess diana car crash

Funny how it was the only movie that launched this weekend.

Imagine if Spiderman was released last Friday as well. Fahrenheit would be everyone's Tuesday Special.

Check out the ratings on IMDB, pretty funny how people either love it or hate it:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0361596/ratings

I was thinking along the same lines... I don't think "White Chicks" is any kind of competition for even Home Alone 7.

Look at a local theaters listings and see what IS showing that would be worth watching....

I'd be interested in watching a movie about 9/11 and the events leading up to it, perhaps even involving mistakes by the Clinton administration, but I doubt I'll watch this because it's so one sided and it leaves out facts I'm sure like the last few M.M. movies.

The fact that the film opened in a limited number of theaters makes the comparison to White Girls baseless. Money taken in per venue is breaking records.

It's playing in 868 theaters, bringing in $25K per theater. A normal "block buster" release is opened in as many as 4000 theaters.

actually there isn't that much stuff in it about the actual 9 11 attacks. There is some but not a whole lot. It's mostly about Iraq and how Bush lied to get us to invade and who stood to gain from an invasion.

Its going to be interesting to see what happens to Bush in the polls this week.

Not playing here at all, damnit

Is it showing on Kazaa yet? :)

God bless America.

I posted a clew up there