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2016: Obama's America' Filmmakers Making Follow-Up Film (Exclusive)
The Hollywood Reporter
Paul Bond
3/16/2013
Excerpt:
Gerald Molen, the Oscar-winning producer of "Schindler's List," "Jurassic Park" and other blockbusters, is re-teaming with conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza for a movie simply called "America."
The filmmakers behind 2016: Obama’s America are working on a follow-up to what has become the second-biggest political documentary in the history of the domestic box office, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.
Conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza, who starred in, co-wrote and co-directed 2016, will return as the writer and star of a film simply titled America to be directed by John Sullivan, who wrote and directed 2016 with D’Souza.
Gerald Molen, who won a best picture Oscar for producing Schindler’s List with Steven Spielberg in 1993, will executive produce America, as he did for 2016.
2016 shocked some industry watchers in 2012 by coming seemingly from nowhere, opening on a single screen in Houston, Texas, and spreading to nearly 2,000 screens within two months, eventually earning $33.5 million on a production budget of $2.5 million. The only political documentary to outperform 2016 was Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, which made $119.2 million on a production budget of $6 million in 2004.
While 2016 was based on D’Souza’s book The Roots of Obama’s Rage, the new film will not draw from previously known source material, and the filmmakers say America is not technically a sequel to 2016, though audiences may be inclined to view it as such.
In America, D’Souza intends to recreate some famous moments in American history and ask the question: What would the world be like if the U.S. had not existed? He likened America, in fact, to Frank Capra’s 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life, in which George Bailey learns what his town would have been like had he never lived.
“President Obama looks at America as an oppressive force,” D’Souza said, “while I and millions of others around the world have a different view – that America has been a great blessing to its own people and to the world.”
In 2016, D’Souza travels to Nairobi to interview President Barack Obama's half brother, George Obama, and the trek and resulting video proved a marketing bonanza for the film. For America, D’Souza, Molen and company have other tricks up their sleeves, though none they are ready to reveal.
“We intend to provide both serious answers and have some fun as we take Obama’s dreams for America to their logical conclusions,” D’Souza says.
D’Souza and his filmmaking partners plan to formally announce America on Saturday in Washington, DC, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, which began Thursday and included presentations from Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, Ann Coulter and others.
D’Souza also plans on unveiling the trailer for America at CPAC, though THR has obtained an advance copy, which is embedded ....
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The Hollywood Reporter
Paul Bond
3/16/2013
Excerpt:
Gerald Molen, the Oscar-winning producer of "Schindler's List," "Jurassic Park" and other blockbusters, is re-teaming with conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza for a movie simply called "America."
The filmmakers behind 2016: Obama’s America are working on a follow-up to what has become the second-biggest political documentary in the history of the domestic box office, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.
Conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza, who starred in, co-wrote and co-directed 2016, will return as the writer and star of a film simply titled America to be directed by John Sullivan, who wrote and directed 2016 with D’Souza.
Gerald Molen, who won a best picture Oscar for producing Schindler’s List with Steven Spielberg in 1993, will executive produce America, as he did for 2016.
2016 shocked some industry watchers in 2012 by coming seemingly from nowhere, opening on a single screen in Houston, Texas, and spreading to nearly 2,000 screens within two months, eventually earning $33.5 million on a production budget of $2.5 million. The only political documentary to outperform 2016 was Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, which made $119.2 million on a production budget of $6 million in 2004.
While 2016 was based on D’Souza’s book The Roots of Obama’s Rage, the new film will not draw from previously known source material, and the filmmakers say America is not technically a sequel to 2016, though audiences may be inclined to view it as such.
In America, D’Souza intends to recreate some famous moments in American history and ask the question: What would the world be like if the U.S. had not existed? He likened America, in fact, to Frank Capra’s 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life, in which George Bailey learns what his town would have been like had he never lived.
“President Obama looks at America as an oppressive force,” D’Souza said, “while I and millions of others around the world have a different view – that America has been a great blessing to its own people and to the world.”
In 2016, D’Souza travels to Nairobi to interview President Barack Obama's half brother, George Obama, and the trek and resulting video proved a marketing bonanza for the film. For America, D’Souza, Molen and company have other tricks up their sleeves, though none they are ready to reveal.
“We intend to provide both serious answers and have some fun as we take Obama’s dreams for America to their logical conclusions,” D’Souza says.
D’Souza and his filmmaking partners plan to formally announce America on Saturday in Washington, DC, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, which began Thursday and included presentations from Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, Ann Coulter and others.
D’Souza also plans on unveiling the trailer for America at CPAC, though THR has obtained an advance copy, which is embedded ....
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View the complete article, including movie trailer, at:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...-making-429104