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According to the theater’s manager, Jordan Perry, the message drew the ire of Amazon MGM, which allegedly contacted the booker that works with the theater. The booker informed Perry that Amazon was upset with the marketing and eventually pulled the film from the theater.
The documentary about the first lady is estimated to have garnered around $7 million during its first weekend at the box office.
Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel enjoyed spit-roasting the doc's trumped-up numbers on Wednesday night
Find out if Amazon’s $75 million Melania Trump documentary is banned, as well as the latest on ticket sales and Brett Ratner controversy.
Trump’s team insists that billionaire Bezos wasn’t involved in her whopping $40 million Amazon MGM movie deal.
Amazon is somehow celebrating Melania‘s opening box office numbers as a success, even though the movie is still down nearly $68 million. Melania earned roughly $7 million on opening weekend, a feat for the documentary genre,
Critics hated it, but director Brett Ratner's first lady documentary "Melania" Trump outperformed box-office expectations with a $7 million opening.
Melania Trump and director Brett Ratner addressed growing questions about the cost of Melania at the documentary’s Kennedy Center premiere. The First Lady and filmmaker responded to scrutiny surrounding the Amazon MGM-backed project,
By financial standards, the film is not a winner, at least not yet. The company that financed it, Amazon MGM Studios, still has a long way to go to break even.
Comedian Laura Benanti reprised her role as the president’s wife, appearing on Wednesday night’s episode to defend Amazon MGM’s Melania. The $75 million documentary opened worldwide last Friday, but has been panned by critics and seen its claims of box office success questioned.