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The timing couldn’t be worse.
The week that her husband’s approval rankings hit file lows occurs to be the identical week that Melania Trump is debuting her self-titled documentary.
And if the early critiques and field workplace forecasts are any indication, the movie is about to endure one of many worst receptions in fashionable Hollywood historical past.
On the evaluate web site Letterboxd, customers have been bombarding Melania with horrendous suggestions.
“I actually don’t care, do u? ½ star,” wrote one person, referencing a slogan written on a jacket that Melania as soon as wore, seemingly in response to her critics.
“I heard all of her traces are taken from a Michelle Obama documentary,” one other wrote.
“No person requested for this absolute piece of flaming rubbish,” a 3rd chimed in.
A fourth critic was much more to the purpose, writing, “ABOLISH ICE. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.”
Lots of these critiques have since been deleted, a transfer that many consider was made on the behest of somebody working for the Trump administration,
In fact, the dangerous critiques are to be anticipated, and the Trumps will possible simply chalk them as much as vitriol from the “haters and losers” (though by most accounts, the movie, directed by disgraced Hollywood exile Brett Ratner, is genuinely dangerous by nearly any metric).
However what Donald and Melania might not have anticipated is the truth that the movie can be on observe to be a historic field workplace bomb.
Social media customers in a number of cities have reported that within the theaters closest to them, each single seat continues to be accessible, that means not a single ticket has been offered.
In fact, documentaries typically don’t make a lot cash, and documentaries fawning about traditionally unpopular regimes are solely of curiosity years later, as soon as the menace is extinguished.
It’s sufficient to make you surprise why Amazon Studios and MGM (which is owned by Amazon) would shell out a reported finances of $75 million for such a dangerous enterprise.
Many consider the reply to that query is that Jeff Bezos didn’t anticipate a right away return on his funding.
“They paid Melania Trump $28 million to make a film completely no person needed to see. That’s referred to as a bribe, people,” wrote one person on X (previously Twitter).
“The query we should be asking concerning the Melania film is what does Jeff Bezos need so badly from the Trump admin he was keen to spend $40 million of his personal cash making this crapola?” one other chimed in.
Like Mark Zuckerberg, Bezos was essential of Trump throughout his first time period in workplace, however he’s fallen into line for Trump 2.0.
So it’s not onerous to see why so many are side-eyeing this explicit enterprise (which reportedly positioned a cool $28 million straight in Melania’s pocket).
Possibly Melania will defy the percentages and pull in large field workplace numbers on the power of phrase of mouth — however one thing tells us Bezos is content material to attend for a distinct type of compensation.
