Brett Ratner, director of Amazon MGM Studios documentary Melania, has denied having a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after appearing in Department of Justice files on the late sex offender. The millions of documents released by the DoJ featured an image of Ratner with his arm around an…

MONDAY AM: Disney/20th Century Studio’s Send Help simmered to a $19.1M opening after a $4.8M Sunday with Markiplier’s very profitable Iron Lung second with an estimated $18.36M after a better than expected $4M Sunday. Amazon MGM Studios’ Melania is $100K ahead of its Sunday estimate with a $7.1M…

Amazon’s big-budget First Lady documentary Melania came in 29th place on its debut weekend at the UK box office, according to Comscore data. The movie scored a lowly £32,974 ($44,960) from 155 cinemas at a site average of £212 ($289). It was the ninth most-popular new release. That UK site count…

Was it packed houses or empty auditoriums juiced by group sales? That’s the obsession over the opening of Amazon MGM Studios’ $75M First Lady Melania documentary from director Brett Ratner, which debuted to $7M, the biggest opening for a non-fiction feature in the last decade, outstripping…

I just paid to go see Melania so you don’t have to. You’re welcome. Amazon MGM Studios withheld this so-called documentary/infomercial from the prying eyes of critics with not even a Thursday preview. It is a move that doesn’t give one comfort that…

Melania, Amazon MGM Studios’ documentary about Melania Trump, is billed as a behind-the-scenes look at the once-and-future first lady in the 20 days leading up to the inauguration last year. While much has been written about what Melania is, in watching the movie a viewer will very quickly…

What’s the conservative equivalent of “Go woke, go broke”? ‘Go Trump, go turkey’? That seems to be the message coming out of international when it comes to the Melania documentary that Amazon MGM Studios reportedly spent an eye-watering and record $40 million to license and $35M to…

The first notices are rolling in for Amazon MGM Studios’ controversial, big-budget First Lady documentary Melania. Described as “an intimate chronicle that offers a rare glimpse into the life of Melania Trump, exploring her role as First Lady and her relationship with the President,” the film…

At the splashy Kennedy Center premiere Thursday for Melania, the Amazon MGM Studios documentary opening this weekend, the movie’s director, Brett Ratner, and First Lady Melania Trump defended the cost of the project, reportedly $40 million to make and another $35 million to market. “I think it…

At tonight’s premiere of Amazon Prime Video’s Melania documentary, Donald Trump had something to say about some other streamers and studios. Asked by Deadline’s Ted Johnson if he was opposed to Netflix’s $83 billion acquisition of Warner Bros movie, TV, HBO and digital assets, POTUS replied…

Amazon MGM Studios’ Brett Ratner documentary, Melania, has been nixed from South African theaters, which sources inform us were political reasons. That said, the pic’s South African distributor, Filmfinity's head of sales and marketing, Thobashan Govindarajulu didn't provide reasons for the…

It’s intriguing final weekend at the January box office — if only one, or two or three, of these wide releases can overperform after last weekend’s monster storm shut the lights at 400 theaters. Yes, 20th Century Studios’ Sam Raimi-directed island genre thriller Send Help will lead stateside…