The media pumped it up and then to try to keep some integrity reported the lies on the day of it's release, a Friday, also the second least watched night in network news, IIRC.
Saturday night being the first.
I hate to be the wet blanket but govt checks come out this week.
Frankly, there's no way you can spin any of the numbers for it as disappointing, considering it's a low-budget DOCUMENTARY (well, supposedly a documentary, of course.)
You can't even apply the same standards as a low-budget summer comedy, because even those cost a lot more than 911 did.
Over time the box office will decline and it will plummet massively next weekend, obviously and people will gleefully report that. But from an industry standpoint it's an astonishing financial success already.
And people need to forget all this boycott and protest nonsense. All that is is free publicity for it.