Melania
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It's so bad it's good.The Telegraph don't like it:
Melania’s movie is two hours of North Korea-style propaganda with a dash of Ralph Lauren
It’s not so much a documentary as a branding exercise for America’s ambitious First Ladywww.telegraph.co.uk
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She will deserve every dollar.
She has probably calculated that with the age difference, Trump will snuff it long before her.
Reminds me of an American comedy I watched years ago.
This arrogant Trump like millionaire gets kidnapped, he tells his kidnappers that his family will pay any ransom.
When the kidnappers phone his wife ( who is having an affair with the kidnapped blokes lawyer) , she contacts the lawyer , who tells her to not to be too hasty and think about it, he says, if, unfortunately your husband doesn't return , you will inherit his fortune.
They then start making excuses to the kidnappers, as to why they can't pay the ransom.
The kidnappers eventually come to the conclusion that his family doesn't want him back.
The Kidnappers start to feel sorry for the bloke they kidnapped, when they break it to him that his family don't want him, he is shattered, he then gets angry and offers to pay the kidnappers himself if they help him to get revenge.
Funny as feck, keeps reminding me of Trump.
Except that he would try and grift off his moron base to pay his ransom. He couldn't raise the cash. I've probably got more ready cash than that fat orange rapist.
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What interests you about her enough to spend a couple of hours watching a film about her?
That's the only bit that doesn't ring true.
Were you one of the very limited number of attendees?
"The feature-length profile of Melania Trump, wife of US President Donald Trump, took £32,974 at the UK and Ireland box office on its opening weekend"
"The film opened at 155 cinemas, averaging £213 at each site"
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Don't forget the secondary sales of popcorn: £3.10.
How much does a cinema pay to rent a movie?
Ans: an average of 35 - 45% of their takings.
So that'll be a net taking of about £115 per cinema, before the costs of opening and operating are considered.
Amazing that there are as many as a dozen Trumpists in some towns.Don't forget the secondary sales of popcorn: £3.10.
How much does a cinema pay to rent a movie?
Ans: an average of 35 - 45% of their takings.
So that'll be a net taking of about £115 per cinema, before the costs of opening and operating are considered.
"....studies have shown that there are at least twelve extremely dumb, poorly educated racists, in every town in the UK...."
Oh dear.
If a collective groan was audible in Hollywood on Monday it wasn't from studio executives reaching for the Tylenol and black coffee after the previous night's Grammys celebrations.
No. Phones lit up across Tinseltown as dumbfounded studio heads bemoaned the fact that Amazon MGM Studio's documentary, MELANIA, had done what was, to the liberals of La La Land, unthinkable.
Forget the predictable drubbing the documentary about the First Lady's life in the 20 days leading up to Donald Trump's second inauguration in January 2025, received from the critics.
Variety may have called it 'a piece of state-sanctioned propaganda out of 1960s Communist China.' Hollywood Reporter may have carped, 'To say that Melania is a hagiography would be an insult to hagiographies.'
But all that really mattered were the numbers.
'Experts' had confidently predicted that MELANIA would only gross between $1 million and $2 million. Instead, the movie took $7 million at the box office, making it the most successful documentary (outside of concert films) in 14 years. It ranked third in last weekend's box office releases and beat action hero Jason Statham's latest flick, Shelter, which opened to a measly $5 million.
An executive at Disney told me: 'Everyone was so convinced MELANIA would flop we were at the point where people were putting major bets on in Vegas that it would gross less than a million.
'Those people have ended up with egg on their faces. Yet again Hollywood has underestimated the power of the conservative vote and the personal popularity of the first lady.
'She's an inspiration to so many people. I mean, look, the hot topic at the moment is immigration and here you have an immigrant from Slovenia who came to the States with nothing, married a billionaire who became president not once but twice and who has conducted herself with grace under fire.
'People are fascinated by her whether they like her or not and woke Hollywood has gotten it wrong - yet again.'
Indeed, last Friday as the film was released in theaters, I held several conversations with executives at various studios and agencies around LA, a city I've lived in and written about for the past 25 years.
Almost to a man and woman I was told MELANIA would flop, that the ICE protests in Minneapolis would be 'the final nail in the coffin' of any hope of box office success and that people, 'would rather go and watch Jason Statham blow up things than see a privileged woman discuss things like her wardrobe.'
Well, Melania and the studio that backed her sure got the last laugh. Jeff Bezos bet heavily on Melania's star-wattage, with the First Lady receiving a reported $28 million of the $40 million Amazon put down on the project. The studio spent another $35 million on marketing.
The gamble worked. MELANIA had extraordinary pulling power with women over 55 and did sell-out business in Florida (Tampa, Orlando and West Palm Beach), Texas (cinemas in Dallas and Houston reported people cheering and giving it a standing ovation) and Phoenix, Arizona, and Atlanta, Georgia.
More follows -long article.
If a collective groan was audible in Hollywood on Monday it wasn't from studio executives reaching for the Tylenol and black coffee after the previous night's Grammys celebrations.
No. Phones lit up across Tinseltown as dumbfounded studio heads bemoaned the fact that Amazon MGM Studio's documentary, MELANIA, had done what was, to the liberals of La La Land, unthinkable.
Forget the predictable drubbing the documentary about the First Lady's life in the 20 days leading up to Donald Trump's second inauguration in January 2025, received from the critics.
Variety may have called it 'a piece of state-sanctioned propaganda out of 1960s Communist China.' Hollywood Reporter may have carped, 'To say that Melania is a hagiography would be an insult to hagiographies.'
But all that really mattered were the numbers.
'Experts' had confidently predicted that MELANIA would only gross between $1 million and $2 million. Instead, the movie took $7 million at the box office, making it the most successful documentary (outside of concert films) in 14 years. It ranked third in last weekend's box office releases and beat action hero Jason Statham's latest flick, Shelter, which opened to a measly $5 million.
An executive at Disney told me: 'Everyone was so convinced MELANIA would flop we were at the point where people were putting major bets on in Vegas that it would gross less than a million.
'Those people have ended up with egg on their faces. Yet again Hollywood has underestimated the power of the conservative vote and the personal popularity of the first lady.
'She's an inspiration to so many people. I mean, look, the hot topic at the moment is immigration and here you have an immigrant from Slovenia who came to the States with nothing, married a billionaire who became president not once but twice and who has conducted herself with grace under fire.
'People are fascinated by her whether they like her or not and woke Hollywood has gotten it wrong - yet again.'
Indeed, last Friday as the film was released in theaters, I held several conversations with executives at various studios and agencies around LA, a city I've lived in and written about for the past 25 years.
Almost to a man and woman I was told MELANIA would flop, that the ICE protests in Minneapolis would be 'the final nail in the coffin' of any hope of box office success and that people, 'would rather go and watch Jason Statham blow up things than see a privileged woman discuss things like her wardrobe.'
Well, Melania and the studio that backed her sure got the last laugh. Jeff Bezos bet heavily on Melania's star-wattage, with the First Lady receiving a reported $28 million of the $40 million Amazon put down on the project. The studio spent another $35 million on marketing.
The gamble worked. MELANIA had extraordinary pulling power with women over 55 and did sell-out business in Florida (Tampa, Orlando and West Palm Beach), Texas (cinemas in Dallas and Houston reported people cheering and giving it a standing ovation) and Phoenix, Arizona, and Atlanta, Georgia.
More follows -long article.