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According to Rottentomatoes.com, Fudgepack Mountain has been in general release for five weeks now and has grossed a little over $22 million. Once you eliminate ticket sales to the chick flickers, that means that they have pretty well exhausted most of the bath house audience in all the major blue state cities, so sales can only be downhill from here.
Of course, if they can just hang on until the Oscars, the extra publicity could "goose" their gate receipts by another 50% or so before the film is consigned to oblivion.
Blind hubris is the reason for Hollywood's gradual decline in gate receipts over the past decade or so and the promotion of this and other agenda driven films will only hasten the trend.
As one Hollywood mogul from the old days said: "If you want to send a message, use Western Union". These old guys might have been dinosaurs in many ways, but Hollywood seems to have forgotten that that advice is still good today.

It's not in general release by any conventional sense of that phrase. It's in 700 theaters now, up from less than 300 two weeks ago and single digits when it first opened five weeks ago, while King Kong is in upward of 3,000 theaters.

Ticket sales are still increasing week over week. Box Office Mojo says it's grossed $29 million as of Saturday ($2.3 million on that day), and after Hollywood hands it awards it's going to get a bump.

Anyway, it's been funny to see these threads, because people were saying it had peaked three weeks ago when it had grossed less than it cost to make and declared it a certified flop. It doesn't take much of an audience for a small movie to make its investment back, and BBM is going to be a big financial success even though the huge majority of Americans are never going to see it and don't want to.