It’s certainly fair to analogize the imminent opening of Brett Ratner‘s Melania with Susan Alexander Kane‘s anguished debut at the Chicago Opera House. No matter how anyone tries to spin it, the response will be humiliating. Amazon paid $40 million to license the film and produce a follow-up docuseries on the first lady…whore money…obeisance before power.
Economic Times, 1.18.26: “Despite President Trump’s recent statements that tickets to the debut at the freshly renamed Trump-Kennedy Center are a ‘very hard get,’ industry tracking cites a different story. Tracking models are now featuring a domestic opening in the low single-digit millions, a fraction of the $40 million Amazon invested.
“One source told Rob Shuter that in New York ‘only a handful of seats have been booked…the studio was expecting a big turnout, but so far it’s not materializing.'”