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Sarah Palin is coming to Utah on Friday — in movie form, anyway.

Stephen K. Bannon's pro-Palin documentary "The Undefeated" has been rolling out across the country, and will open this Friday in four more cities — including at the Carmike Ritz 15 in West Valley City. (The other locations are in suburban Charleston, S.C., and two Ohio locations — Cincinnati and Columbus.)

The group Conservatives 4 Palin is touting the movie's rollout, urging fans to show up en masse:

"It's really important to pack these theaters, especially the ones in South Carolina and Ohio. She's polling well in both states despite the fact that the mainstream and so-called conservative media have purposefully misled Republican and Republican-leaning independents into believing that she won't run. Let's force the media to report a Week 3 comeback for 'The Undefeated'."

"Comeback" is right, as the movie - which touts the half-term Alaska governor while compiling a laundry list of her detractors - took a nosedive at the box office in its second week, averaging a mediocre $1,762 per screen at 14 locations this weekend, according to Box Office Mojo. That's a fraction of the $6,500 per-screen average it got its first week.

Brandon Gray, writing for the box-office number-crunching site, criticized the movie's supporters - like right-wing blogger Andrew Breitbart's "Big Hollywood" site - for twisting the stats to make a failure look like something else:

"Even before 'The Undefeated' bottomed out in its second weekend, the movie was a bust in its first weekend, but its boosters latched onto two stats: per-theater average and ranking among political documentaries. The classic tactics of movie spin include bragging about per-theater average and declaring a high ranking in a niche category. The funny thing is that 'Undefeated's' opening didn't rate highly on either front, making the spin extra-egregious."

"The Undefeated" has made history in another statistical category: It's one of the few movies to score a perfect zero on Rotten Tomatoes.