Melania: will Bezos-bankrolled documentary be a flop? – The Latest

梅拉尼娅:由贝索斯资助的纪录片会失败吗?——最新消息

Today in Focus

2026-01-28

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Jeff Bezos’s Amazon MGM Studios is due to release its feature-length documentary about Melania Trump, directed by Brett Ratner, a formerly exiled film-maker who was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women. The documentary was screened at a promotional event inside the White House, attended by what the Hollywood Reporter describes as ‘70 assorted VIPs’, including Amazon’s Andy Jassy, Apple’s Tim Cook and the former boxer Mike Tyson. Bezos bought the rights to the film for $40m (£30m) and spent a further $35m on a global marketing push – but so far, ticket sales are reportedly ‘soft’ as it prepares to screen in more than 100 UK cinemas. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • In the trailer, you see her saying things like, everybody wants to know.

  • So here it is.

  • And it's like, well, the things they want to know, you're not going to tell us.

  • Everyone wants to know.

  • So here it is.

  • Clearly what Amazon thought is that what it would cost them in terms of credibility and profits,

  • it would easily make back in terms of butchering.

  • I mean, Hollywood has absolutely capitulated to Trump at the moment.

  • Why is Amazon paying millions of dollars for a documentary about Melania Trump that will almost certainly be a flop in the UK?

  • From the Guardians Today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Ha.

  • Well to help answer that question is Catherine Schwartz, Guardian Film Editor.

  • Thanks for being with us Catherine.

  • Let's talk about the weekend because there were appalling events in the weekend.

  • Another fatal shooting of a man in Minneapolis.

  • There have been widespread protests across America.

  • But in the Trump White House, if you thought that this was on his radar in any meaningful way,

  • he was tweeting on his true social platform about the attempts to thwart his 300 million pound ballroom.

  • And he was also hosting a glitzy film premiere for his wife, Melania.

  • It says something that we know about the dark nature of Trump's White House,