Game Changer? Indie Doc ‘2000 Mules’ Reportedly Snags $10 Million

Imdb rating down to 7.3 with 3K votes. Dinesh D'Souza forgot to tell everyone to rate it!

https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/2000-mules-10-million-box-office/

Still, the vast majority of documentaries fail to reach the $1 million mark at the U.S. box office. Most earn far less, generating income later on cable and streaming platforms.

Plus, documentaries rely on several key factors for their survival – critical reviews, film festivals, theatrical release and digital distribution pipelines.

“2000 Mules” blazed a different path, and the results are nothing less than spectacular.

The film, from veteran author and pundit Dinesh D’Souza, only graced select theaters for two nights before its May 7 digital premiere. Audiences can’t stream it via standard VOD platforms like Google Play, iTunes or Amazon Prime. And no film festival would touch a documentary alleging fraudulent votes swayed the 2020 presidential election.

It still earned a staggering $10 million to date, according to D’Souza.

D’Souza anticipated his film would face censorial head winds from traditional outlets like iTunes, Facebook, Twitter and Google. So he skipped them entirely, selling the film via Locals.com and Rumble.