'Fahrenheit 9/11' sets box-office record / Documentary with anti-Bush message beats blockbusters

'Fahrenheit 9/11' sets box-office record / Documentary with anti-Bush message beats blockbusters: "Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11' made Hollywood history by selling $21.8 million worth of tickets in its first three days, becoming the only documentary ever to outgun all other blockbuster films at the nation's box offices in one weekend.
Theatergoers in the Bay Area gave the anti-President Bush movie one of the most enthusiastic welcomes in the country, according to several local theater owners and film experts.
'It's been absolutely wild. It was like a party atmosphere here at the Grand Lake Theater all weekend,' said Allen Michaan, owner of the Oakland theater and the Park Theater in Lafayette, where nearly every showing of 'Fahrenheit 9/11' has sold out since the film opened on Friday.
The Grand Lake attracted extra attention from Moore fans after a photograph of the theater's marquee, stating that it would not enforce the film's R rating, was featured on the controversial filmmaker's Web site. "


Delfin Vigil
Chronicle Staff Writer