Dinesh D’Souza’s “2000 Mules” Returns to Theaters Friday

The film 2000 Mules, which documents allegations of fraud during the 2020 elections, is returning to theaters Friday.

Around 400 theaters across the nation will perform a normal release with typical ticket sales and multiple showings each day beginning May 20.

“With the success of the movie, everyone talking about the movie, a lot of independent theaters began to call us, ‘Hey, why didn’t we have this movie in the theater?’” Dinesh D’Souza, conservative political commentator and 2000 Mules creator, said. “And we were like, ‘You know what? This is fantastic.’ A lot of our people love to see the movie in groups, love to see it in the theater. In fact, we’ve been bombarded with people trying to organize groups.”

D’Souza said some theaters may have early showings starting on Thursday. 2000 Mules will continue to show as long as the film sells well.

“2000 Mules is, well, the phrase in the movie business is ‘going wide,’” D’Souza said. “I want to make it go wide so that everyone can see it.”

For those who cannot go to theaters, D’Souza has reopened online streaming available at SalemNOW and at Rumble’s subscription-based platform, Locals.

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D’Souza said the success of the film has helped to lower viewing costs with this second-round release.

“We could only put it on uncancelable platforms [at first],” D’Souza noted. “We couldn’t advertise it the normal way. … Happily, this movie is a big success.”

During its opening weekend of May 6, 2000 Mules grossed more than $1 million in its first 12 hours of streaming — good enough to put the film in the estimated box office top 10 for that weekend.

D’Souza’s 2000 Mules documentary alleges that the 2020 election results were altered as a result of thousands of people being paid to collect and drop off ballots at collection boxes in key swing states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

The film claims that cellphone geolocation tracking data show people going near ballot drop-off locations several times between Oct. 1 and Election Day in 2020.

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The claims have been labeled misleading or flawed by fact-checkers, including the Associated Press and Politifact, which D’Souza disputes.

The film has garnered praise from Trump supporters and popular Republican figures, including Vernon Jones, Kyle Rittenhouse, and Marjorie Taylor Greene.