Moore sets sights on multiplexes

January 23, 2008 Michael Moore is mad as hell about documentaries and foreign films being crowded out of theaters, and he's not going to take it anymore. The director of four of the 12 top-grossing docus of all time -- "Fahrenheit 9/11," "Roger & Me," the Oscar-winning "Bowling for Columbine" and the just-announced Oscar nominee "Sicko" -- wants to use his influence with exhibitors to make this happen. Moore's motivation is the declining boxoffice performance of indie films last year, in which many were taken out of theaters before they had a chance to grow word-of-mouth business.

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