MELANIA, the film, exclusively in theaters worldwide on January 30th, 2026

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MELANIA, the film was acquired by Amazon for $40 million and will be released in theatres on Jan. 30, 2026. It was directed by Brett Ratner

 

[fooferdoggie]

I'm half convinced she is a plant for the Russsian govt and has been working for decades to make him into a huge patsy for them - why else would she continue to put up with his womanizing, assaults against other women, and multiple affairs etc.

Because she makes a lot of money off of him? she has spoken out she married him for his money. or maybe both.

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

Because she makes a lot of money off of him? she has spoken out she married him for his money. or maybe both.

If she's a Russian operative, she's not going to speak out about being a Russian operative. That leaves her with "I'm in for the money" as her only somewhat plausible reason.

 

[nolaspe]

 

[nolaspe]

 

[Neworleansfan]

 

[gummbo]

wonder if she tells how much she sold her Hoha for?

The film Should have been titled from the “whorehouse to the White House”

 

[coldseat]

Best one I've heard so far, "If this movie was played on an airplane, people would still walkout."

 

[superchuck500]

This seems like a fair take: stepping back and considering her life's arc, a film about Melania could have merit. But a film about the two weeks of her preparing for a second inauguration is entirely uninteresting, politics notwithstanding.

Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest

Dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemable

www.theguardian.com

 

[MT15]

I think the director was outed as a sexual predator back in the Me Too era, and is trying to worm his way back into film making. A little too on the nose isn’t it?

 

[efil4]

 

[Neworleansfan]

1/2 star. Is that possible? Me think he is being generous.

 

[gummbo]

It should have been titled “The Greencard Mile”

 

[superchuck500]

This is really good

'Melania' Is a Horror Movie

The first lady is trapped, and she doesn’t seem to know it.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

This seems like a fair take: stepping back and considering her life's arc, a film about Melania could have merit. But a film about the two weeks of her preparing for a second inauguration is entirely uninteresting, politics notwithstanding.

Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest

Dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemable

www.theguardian.com

The only Melania movie that would be worthwhile is one that isn't authorized, written, produced, or edited by Melania or anyone else who supports the Republicans or the Trump family.

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

Screenwriting and documentary making 101 is don't include scenes with people just getting into a car, getting out of car, driving a car, driving up in a car, or driving away in a car. The same applies to any mode of transportation. People traveling is boring and a waste of story telling time if all the scene does is show someone while they are traveling.

 

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This all just sounds to me like:

Amazon person 1: how can we stay on his good side?
Amazon person 2: lets fluff his ego by spending some (for our company) pocket change we found in the couch

It paid $40 million to buy this film. (and as NPR put it)
That price makes Melania arguably the most expensive infomercial in history. It also makes it inconceivable that the film will return a profit — it's only expected to take in a paltry $5 million dollars worldwide this weekend. That's prompted speculation in Hollywood circles about what else Amazon thinks it bought when it purchased the film.

 

[bird]

This all just sounds to me like:

Amazon person 1: how can we stay on his good side?
Amazon person 2: lets fluff his ego by spending some (for our company) pocket change we found in the couch

It paid $40 million to buy this film. (and as NPR put it)
That price makes Melania arguably the most expensive infomercial in history. It also makes it inconceivable that the film will return a profit — it's only expected to take in a paltry $5 million dollars worldwide this weekend. That's prompted speculation in Hollywood circles about what else Amazon thinks it bought when it purchased the film.

Easy answer? Access to contracts.

 

[superchuck500]

This all just sounds to me like:

Amazon person 1: how can we stay on his good side?
Amazon person 2: lets fluff his ego by spending some (for our company) pocket change we found in the couch

It paid $40 million to buy this film. (and as NPR put it)
That price makes Melania arguably the most expensive infomercial in history. It also makes it inconceivable that the film will return a profit — it's only expected to take in a paltry $5 million dollars worldwide this weekend. That's prompted speculation in Hollywood circles about what else Amazon thinks it bought when it purchased the film.

The $40M included a $28M personal licensing fee paid directly to Melania herself. For context, Margot Robbie was paid $12.5M to be Barbie, and Scarlett Johansson earns between $10M and $20M per film.

So you have a movie expected to earn a fraction of what Amazon paid for it, and they paid Melania an astronomical fee for a movie that was already made (in other words, she didn't need to be incentivized to make it).

It's nothing more than a transfer of wealth from Amazon to Melania Trump for no rational reason except to ingratiate Bezos and Amazon with Trump. It sounds like Amazon corporate paid for it, I'd love to see a stockholder derivative suit against the company for it - there's no way they could defend it.

'Chaos': Behind the Scenes of Amazon's Melania Trump Doc

Crew members of the Amazon documentary "Melania: Twenty Days to History" detail a chaotic production process under Brett Ratner.

www.rollingstone.com