This week Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story ($9.9 million) edged past Ben Stein's Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed ($7.7 million) on the list of top grossing political documentaries. For more on the impact and box office success of Expelled, see this past article I contributed to Skeptical Inquirer magazine.
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Capitalism Edges Past Expelled as the 5th Top Grossing Political Documentary
Category: Documentary film • Evolution/Intelligent Design
Posted on: October 15, 2009 7:19 PM, by Matthew C. Nisbet
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It is not fair to compare Michael Moore and Ben Stein. Michael Moore is by far the world's most successful producer of documentary films and his name has far more box office recognition than Ben Stein's. Ben Stein's "Expelled" either is -- or is very close to being -- the most successful documentary produced by someone other than Michael Moore. "Expelled" did quite well, everything considered.
Posted by: Larry Fafarman | October 18, 2009 1:35 AM