Maxance Vincent
After an unsuccessful attempt by the Trump campaign to stop the movie’s release in the United States, Briarcliff Entertainment has acquired the U.S. rights to The Apprentice and plans to release the movie on October 11, before the election. Producer James Shani, whose company Rich Spirit is among the film’s backers, acquired The Apprentice from Kinematics and has partnered with Briarcliff for its theatrical release.
The movie is also set to have a full-on Awards campaign and will appear in some fall festivals before its release date, with a rumored Telluride premiere this weekend.
Directed by Ali Abbasi and written by Gabriel Sherman, the movie is set many years before business magnate Donald J. Trump became the 45th President of the United States and will depict the early years of his career as he forms a partnership with prosecutor Roy Cohn and learns the art of the deal. Sebastian Stan portrays Trump, while Succession‘s Jeremy Strong plays Cohn.
Maria Bakalova, Martin Donovan, and Charlie Carrick also star in the film as Donald’s first wife, Ivana Trump, his father, Fred Trump, and brother, Fred Trump Jr.
The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and received generally positive reviews from critics, sitting at 77% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 44 reviews. With such a heated electoral campaign between Trump and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the movie will likely leave a mark on American audiences as the cycle will begin to heat up very soon with a Presidential Debate set to air on September 10th on ABC.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
I like how we were subjected to a full week of unhinged hysteria from the press when the notoriously dishonest billionaire Mark Zuckerberg put out a craven letter expressing that he “felt pressured” to suppress COVID-19 misinformation on his social media platforms when the Biden Administration reached out to Meta about a mass communication problem that literally threatened people’s lives (not actually coerced, mind you; just that he “felt” he was), yet the Trump campaign’s unambiguous legal threats and attempts to suppress the commercial release of a film portraying him in an unflattering light is greeted with a shrug by those same reporters.