“America,” conservative author Dinesh D’Souza‘s documentary followup toย his 2012 breakout hit “2016: Obama’s America,” didn’t spark the same box-office lightning as that film did in its box office debut, but its backers remain upbeat.
The most recent film opened in 1,105 theaters nationwide to $2.7 million from Friday-Sunday and roughly $4 million over the five-day July 4 holiday weekend. That’s well under the stunning $6.5 million debut of the first film, which came out in late August of 2012 and went on to become a hit, running up $33 million in domestic grosses. That’s the second most a political documentary has ever made, behind only Michael Moore‘s “Farenheit 9/11,” which took in $119 million in 2004.