Overview
- The feature-length documentary covers the 20 days before Donald Trump’s second inauguration, with Melania Trump both subject and executive producer.
- Amazon/MGM reportedly paid about $40 million for rights and roughly $35 million for marketing, putting the film into roughly 3,300 cinemas worldwide.
- Early U.S. weekend grosses are estimated at about $8.1 million, while many international screenings drew sparse crowds with some near-empty showings reported in Germany and the U.K.
- Rolling Stone and other outlets report that roughly two-thirds of the New York production crew asked to be omitted from the credits, and director Brett Ratner’s selection and on-set conduct drew complaints.
- The premiere at the renamed Trump-Kennedy Center drew Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy, and reviewers widely describe the movie as apolitical image-making rather than an informative documentary.