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‘Melania,’ panned by some film critics, opens with strong ticket sales for a documentary

Promoted by President Donald Trump as “a must watch,” the Melania Trump documentary “Melania” debuted with a better-than-expected $7 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday

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Brett Ratner, who directed the Melania Trump documentary, photographed with Jeffrey Epstein and two girls in newly released files

A panned documentary might be the least of Ratner's worries.

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Melania film earns $7m in US, strongest documentary debut in over a decade

Melania, however, cost significantly more than a typical documentary, at $40m to make and $35m to promote

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Night Manager producer Simon Cornwell says he would be ‘arrested’ if Trump watches second series

The long-awaited second season of the much-loved thriller is set to conclude this weekend

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Why the failure of Melania's documentary is good news for the advertising industry

Even $35 million in marketing can only achieve so much.

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Despite memes and mockery, Melania Trump documentary broke this remarkable box office record

The performance stands in sharp contrast to the film’s digital reception. On social media, Melania has been widely derided as a glossy vanity project, with critics dismissing it as stage-managed and self-promotional. Viral jokes and conspiracy-tinged commentary framed the film as emblematic of Trump-era excess. Yet the theatre turnout tells…

The Times of India

Melania box office results revealed as divisive documentary defies predictions

Brett Ratner’s film about the first lady performed better than expected on its opening day

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Highly disturbing Epstein files alleging Donald Trump sexually assaulted a 13yo get deleted. But the damage was done

The DOJ now claims it was "an administrative error."

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Melania Trump documentary opens to underwhelming reception: ‘It’s not a gripping film’

$75m Amazon-produced paean to the first lady saw empty seats and faint praise as it opened in New York City

The Guardian - US

‘Here we go again’: $75m Melania film embodies venal spirit of Trump 2.0

First lady’s big-screen documentary premieres with criticisms over $28m payday and questions over relevancy

The Guardian - US

Will corporate America finally stand up to the Trump administration?

The brutal handling of immigration raids and the killing of Alex Pretti have tested the reticence of the corporate class

The Guardian - US

From Donald Trump, Elon Musk to Bill Gates - what the latest dump of Epstein files reveals?

The US department of justice has made public a substantial cache of documents from the federal investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. US deputy attorney general Todd Blanche confirmed the release exceeds three million pages, representing a significant addition to the public record of the high-profile case.

The Times of India

From stilettos to safety concerns on Inauguration Day: 4 takeaways from Melania Trump's new movie

In her new self-titled documentary, first lady Melania Trump offers a peek behind the scenes during the 20 days before she returned to the White House

The Independent UK

I endured the Melania film so you don’t have to – my only regret is not buying popcorn so one of my senses was entertained

‘Everyone wants to know,’ Melania says at the beginning of the two-hour extravaganza – but do we?

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The Independent UK

LA moves buses with ads for Melania movie after film posters at stops vandalized

The Amazon documentary, which cost $40 million to produce, is expected to make only $5 million during its opening weekend

The Times of India

‘Dear G’: Is Melania Trump mentioned in the Epstein files, and who is ‘G’?

Newly released Jeffrey Epstein investigation files reveal alleged email exchanges between Ghislaine Maxwell and Melania Trump from 2002. The correspondence, predating her marriage to Donald Trump, discusses a New York magazine story and travel plans. Neither the Trumps have been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with the Epstein case.

The Independent UK

I watched ‘Melania’ on opening day in a near-empty movie theater. Why I did is just one of the many questions I was left with

COMMENT : Amazon’s portrait of the first lady has dropped in cinemas, but box office sales are weak. Ellie Muir attended the first showing at her local theater in London and left with more questions than she arrived with

The Independent UK

Melania review – First Lady is a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda

1/5 Hitting cinemas as the streets of America remain filled with the angry and grieving, the vulgar, gilded lifestyle of the Trumps makes them look like Marie Antoinette skulking in her cake-filled chateau

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The Guardian - US

Colbert on Springsteen’s anti-ICE song: ‘Do you know how hard it is to rhyme with Minneapolis?’

Late-night hosts discussed the star’s new protest song and the much-ridiculed premiere of the Melania documentary

The Guardian - UK

Eggs, hats and unfettered ambition: what we learned about Melania Trump from her documentary

The first lady’s political goals, high-stakes clothes fittings and hints that she and Donald still have sex are just some of the highlights from Brett Ratner’s documentary

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Netizens Didn’t Hold Back When Reacting To The ‘Melania’ Documentary, Here Are The 15 Best Memes

Melania Trump’s $75 million documentary faces a brutal "meme-a-thon" as empty theaters and reports of behind-the-scenes chaos overshadow its theatrical debut.

The Guardian - UK

From ICE to Melania’s black carpet, are Trump’s techlords getting pangs of buyer’s remorse?

The first lady’s premiere was marked by conspicuous absences. It turns out chumminess with the president might just come at a cost, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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“Painfully Unaware Of How To Dress”: The Worst MAGA Outfits At The ‘Melania’ Premiere

“She looks like she is going to a funeral.”

Evening Standard

What Melania Trump’s second term fashion tells us

The divisive FLOTUS has always been the subject of fashion analysis, and the last year has proved no exception

The Guardian - UK

One adult for the 9.40am in Sittingbourne: a front row seat for Melania’s ominous UK opening

Pilloried as a multimillion-dollar sweetener, Amazon’s Brett Ratner-directed portrait of the first lady has opened with a grand ‘black-carpet’ premiere in Washington and mysteriously empty cinemas around the planet

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