Hey, has anybody heard how Rick Santorum is doing in his quest to become the Republican Nominee for President? No?

What was Newt Gingrich up to this weekend? You don’t know?

Say…How about that Human Dynamo Tim Paw…Zzzzzz…excuse me…I nodded off.

But, there is some excitement in the Republican Sphere.  Stephen Bannon’s movie about Sarah Palin, The Undefeated, opened in 10 theaters this weekend, averaging between $5,000 – $7,500 per screen.

Per the Hollywood Reporter:

We didn’t put a nickel of P&A into this and the distributor had the movie for only three weeks. To describe this as anything but a hit is inaccurate,” director-writer Stephen Bannon told The Hollywood Reporter on Sunday.

“We took out only one ad, which is what AMC required of us. We did a high-risk thing. I wanted to see how we could open on word-of-mouth and social media,” said Bannon.

Bannon also said the numbers are misleading, given the small theaters where Undefeated played.

“This is a documentary opening against Harry Potter on the toughest weekend of the year. We had small numbers but only in small theaters. In bigger markets, like Orange County, we’ll do $12,000 per screen,” Bannon said.

“One theater had, like, 95 seats. Most places upgraded us to a bigger screen because of demand. Where we had the capacity, we did more than $10,000 per screen,” he said.

Bannon also said audiences reacted much in the same way they did at the premiere in Pella, Iowa a few weeks ago: with standing ovations. He said he intends on putting video of the positive response online.

“The combination of passionate audience response, sustained standing ovations and in-theater Twittering convinces us that this is a special film that will have incredible word-of-mouth,” said Glenn Bracken Evans, co-founder of Victory Film Group, which financed the film with its partners.

ARC Entertainment and Cinedigm, which helped get the film into theaters, opened the film in Palin strongholds—Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Phoenix, Orlando, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Oklahoma City and Orange, Calif.

ARC said theaters in larger markets enjoyed per screen averages of nearly $10,000 on Saturday night. The theater in Phoenix played Undefeated on two screens at one point because of demand.

Bannon said details of a wider release will be announced Monday.

“We expect word-of-mouth to keep ticket sales strong and we will definitely expand the film to a wider national audience,” said ARC CEO Trevor Drinkwater.

Bannon also said independent filmmakers can learn something from the way Undefeated got a quick and inexpensive release that included efficiently marketing the movie to its target audience.

“Harry Potter is historic, and in our little way, we are too,” Bannon said. “We’re a template for independent film releases.”

Lord Voldemort’s vendetta against Harry Potter pales in comparison to the Main Stream Media, the Elite of both political parties, and “Fiscal Conservatives”‘ (i.e., Moderates, Libertarians, or incognito Liberals) hatred of Sarah Palin.

Check out this movie review from theweek.com:

No one was expecting a Tea Party Citizen Kane from conservative filmmaker Stephen Bannon, but all the same, critics (who’ve, so far, given the movie a 0 percent favorability rating on Rotten Tomatoes) are deriding the film, not just for being pro-Palin propaganda, but for being “bad propaganda.” How foul is it?

It’s amateurishly bad: The Palin documentary “makes no pretense of being anything more than a full-length commercial endorsement of her character and accomplishments,” says Robert Levin at The Atlantic. It’s just too bad the director, conservative Stephen Bannon, isn’t a better filmmaker. He beats every talking point to a pulp, “with earsplitting soundtrack flourishes, aggressive montage, and an overall state of high anxiety.” The film’s biggest problem isn’t its “hagiographic leanings.” It’s the “simple fact that its director needs to go back to film school.”

“Sarah Palin’s The Undefeated: Bad propaganda, worse filmmaking”

And quite boring: “The first hour of The Undefeated, scrupulously attentive to Palin’s rise through state politics, is pretty rough going, a turgid primer in Alaska’s pipeline management and oil, gas and, yes, milk subsidies,” says Richard Corliss at TIME. What could have been a compelling film about Palin’s place in the political landscape, and the establishment’s handling of her, is marred by Bannon’s clumsy, yawn-inducing attempt at propaganda. The movie might lead “even the most ardent conservatives to emulate their idol’s tenure as governor and walk out halfway through.”

“The Undefeated: Her holiness Sarah Palin”

And very thin on new material: This film is little more than “a string of encomiums against a backdrop of frantically edited archival material,” says Todd McCarthy at The Hollywood Reporter. Palin wasn’t even interviewed for the documentary, though some excerpts from her audio book are featured. There’s no worthwhile analysis here, “nothing about her personal life, international inexperience or interview gaffes.” It’s essentially a redundant, two-hour film “stitched together with a thousand sound bites” and a grating musical score.

At the same time, these clowns probably consider Janeane Garafalo, a gorgeous woman and a great actress…and Lady Gaga,the epitome of class and refinement.

I find it both fascinating and disgusting at the same time to watch the Progressive Leaders and all of their sycophants and unwitting dupes, on both sides of the aisle, as they attack Sarah Palin and everything that she stands for with a fervor and unceasing rage that makes Lord Voldemort seem like Deepak Chopra in comparison.

Sarah Palin is receiving more attention than all of the Republican Presidential Nominees, including the Legacy, Mitt Romney, combined.

And she’s not even running…yet.