Roger Ebert claimed that “2016: Obama’s America” is not playing in any Chicago theaters
This is Roger Ebert’s website. For the weekend of Friday, August 24, 2012, he has written reviews of seven new movies:
All seven of those reviews are actually dated Wednesday, August 22, 2012.
As I sit here writing this, it is Friday evening, August 24, 2012, and his website does not have a review for 2016: Obama’s America.
I suppose it’s possible that the movie was not available early for critics in Chicago to see. If that’s the case, then his review should be up tomorrow, August 25, 2012. (Update: It is now Saturday afternoon, August 25, and he has still not reviewed the movie. )
Over at one of Roger Ebert’s blog entries, I asked him:
Roger, when will I get to have the privilege of reading your review of the new film “2016: Obama’s America”?
He answered:
At such time as it opens theatrically here.
I responded with the following. Since I just submitted it, it has not yet been approved by Ebert:
So you’re saying that the movie which is number one all over the country is not playing in any theaters in one of biggest cities in the country? I can’t recall that ever happening before.
Actually, it’s playing at FOURTEEN different Chicago theaters:
Showtimes
AMC Showplace Galewood 14
5530 W. Homer Blvd, Chicago, IL
10:15am 12:45 3:15 5:45 8:15 10:45pm
AMC Showplace Village Crossing 18
7000 Carpenter Road, Skokie, IL
11:40am 2:10 4:50 7:30 10:10pm
Regal Gardens 7-13
4999 Old Orchard Center, Skokie, IL
12:10 2:40 5:10 7:30 9:50pm
AMC Loews Quarry Cinemas 14
9201 63rd St., Hodgkins, IL
11:35am 1:50 4:05 6:20 8:40pm
AMC Loews Crestwood 18
13221 Rivercrest Drive, Crestwood, IL
10:15am 12:40 3:00 5:30 7:50 10:30pm
AMC Showplace Niles 12
301 Golf Mill Center, Niles, IL
10:25am 12:55 3:25 5:45 8:05 10:25pm
AMC Loews Country Club Hills 16
4201 W.167th St., Country Club Hills, IL
11:00am 1:45 4:15 7:20 9:45pm
AMC Northbrook Court 14
1525 Lake Cook Road, Northbrook, IL
10:35am 1:05 3:45 6:15 8:30pm
AMC Randhurst 12
200 Randhurst Village Drive, Mount Prospect, IL
11:30am 1:50 4:20 7:40 10:20pm
AMC Yorktown 17
80 Yorktown Shopping Ctr, Lombard, IL
11:50am 2:30 4:55 7:25 9:55pm
Marcus Addison Cinema
1555 West Lake Street, Addison, IL
12:55 3:15 5:30 7:50 10:05pm
AMC Loews Woodridge 18
10000 Woodward Ave., Woodridge, IL
11:00am 1:20 3:40 6:00 8:20 10:40pm
AMC Loews Streets of Woodfield 20
601 N. Martingale Road, Schaumburg, IL
11:05am 1:30 3:50 6:20 9:00pm
Cinemark at Seven Bridges
6500 Route 53, Woodridge, IL
12:10 2:30 4:50 7:10 9:30 11:45pm
http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/first-box-office-anti-obama-movie-1/
FIRST BOX OFFICE: Anti-Obama Movie #1
By NIKKI FINKE
August 24, 2012
FRIDAY 2 PM: The anti-Obama movie 2016 Obama’s America went into wider release around America today and is opening right now in first place at the domestic box office. That’s quite a feat since the Rocky Mountain Pictures political documentary is still playing in only 1,090 North American theaters – or about 1/3 as many theaters as big-budget actioner The Expendables 2 (3,355 theaters).
Like I said above, I suppose it’s possible that the movie was not available early for critics in Chicago to see. If that’s the case, then his review should be up tomorrow. (Update: It is now Saturday afternoon, August 25, and he has still not reviewed the movie.)