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'2016: Obama's America' makes top ten in box office race

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    Film rakes in over $6M in first weekend

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President Obama is up front and center in one of the biggest movies of the week the documentary 2016.

Obama is America.

Examines what the country might be like if he wins a second term.

It cracked the top ten in this weekend's box office as it expands into more theaters.

Take a look.

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I said between the two -- The pain I felt was my father's pain when questions were my brother's request.

-- struggled quite virtually.

Obama has a dream -- -- from this yeah.

That decisions of colonialism and be sent -- to ten in America we downside.

-- -- Chris Gallagher has more live from our West -- -- TG.

Hey -- you know those of you Jack in the Box office numbers say this thing has been a huge surprise it came in at number eight this weekend pulling in six point two million dollars but that's not really even the big story the big story a story is that 20s16.

Actually had the highest per screen -- -- average of any movie.

In the top twenty and it's about to be released in a lot more theaters this is a movie that opened just a few weeks ago in one theater in Houston.

And then -- -- had to rely on word of mouth and talk radio plus cable news to get exposure.

The movie was co written and co directed by conservative critic yeah I -- next resumes that is the country.

You know what he believes would look like as you said in 2016 if President Obama is reelected.

-- it was racially on America live and you talk to remember that split.

Previous presidents have all been known figures.

But Obama kind of came out of nowhere and four years later we still don't know a whole lot about them about him.

So what this film does as it tries to raise the -- on who Obama is.

So whether people like a more they don't like him they'll get to understand him a lot better.

And all told 2016 is already brought in some nine million dollars that makes the number one conservative documentary of all time of course Fahrenheit 9/11 Michael Moore's documentary.

Is the highest.

Documentary grossing of all time with a 119 million dollars but keep in mind that had the backing of Lionsgate which is a major movie.

Company this has the backing of one guy nine million bucks negative not be released -- a lot more theaters.

This thing they believe could pull in 3040 million bucks before it's all said wow.

Those -- some big all numbers Trace Gallagher thank you --