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'Melania': Why the Mrs Trump documentary isn't a documentary at all

Euronews Culture’s David Mouriquand went to see the Melania Trump documentary ‘Melania’ so you don’t have to.

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Piers Morgan confronts Melania director Brett Ratner about photo with Jeffrey Epstein

Ratner appeared in the Justice Department’s latest Epstein file dump

The Independent UK

Melania director Brett Ratner breaks silence on Epstein photograph

Piers Morgan confronted Brett Ratner about a newly-released photograph of the Melania director sitting next to Jeffrey Epstein and two women.

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Melania: Amazon’s $106m documentary takes $982 per screen in Australian opening weekend

Documentary about the US first lady debuted at No 31 at Australian box office, making $32,399 from 33 screens

The Guardian - AU

Newly released Jeffrey Epstein files: 10 key takeaways so far

Lawyers discussed possibility of Epstein’s cooperation with prosecutors – and more names surfaced in new documents

The Guardian - US

The “Selling Out Fast” Melania Trump Documentary Is Still a Flop

A documentary about a First Lady nobody cares about isn’t doing well in theaters? Why, frankly I am shocked! Where are all of MAGA supporters to fill those seats like they said they would? Surely couldn’t be because Brett Ratner has already been ousted from Hollywood for sexual misconduct–that’s not…

The Mary Sue

Melania debuts at No 29 at the UK box office

Distributors breathe a sigh of relief as the documentary defies the disastrous opening many anticipated to land a screen average of £212 on its first weekend of release

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Melania Trump’s movie was already in trouble, but with director Brett Ratner tied to Epstein documents, its box office fate is sealed

The documentary about Melania Trump, the First Lady of the United States, is struggling at the box office. Reports from last week suggested that only one ticket was sold for its premiere at a popular VUE location, just before its release on Friday in the UK. The film has once…

The Mary Sue

‘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

The Guardian - US

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

The Independent UK

‘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

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

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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

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

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

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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Melania ticket sales suggest weak box office opening — and some theaters are cancelling screenings

Analysis of theaters around the country shows generally sparse sales for the film’s opening

The Independent UK

Hollywood comeback bid tied to divisive Melania Trump documentary

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Evening Standard

Melania Trump dazzles at premiere of her documentary - but Barron and other kids are nowhere to be seen

Melania said: ‘I want to show the audience my life, what it takes to be a first lady again’

The Independent UK

Melania documentary live: Critics hammer ‘vapid’ film as it debuts to near-empty theaters

New documentary is now in theaters nationwide, though early box office analysis predicts dismal showing

The Independent UK

Melania documentary pulled from South African theaters for ‘political reasons’

Film is scheduled to release Friday worldwide

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Melania Trump Documentary Worker says Crew was Reportedly not allowed to take Meal Breaks

Melania Trump’s upcoming documentary has alleged that staff were not allowed to take meal breaks during at least one long day of filming

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Viral Images Show The Humiliating Truth About Melania Trump’s New Documentary

Crew members spoke about what it was like working with First Lady Melania Trump and how the production set was “chaotic” and “disorganized.”

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