Despite a massive media push for the film, Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice had an abysmal opening weekend, painting a grim picture for the project and those involved.
Breitbart News reports:
The controversial Trump biopic — which portrays the young Donald Trump as a rapist — is set to gross around $1.5 million on its opening weekend. That’s an embarrassingly low figure given the movie received a wide release on 1,740 screens, for a per-screen average of about $862.
Even left wing film critics were forced to admit the movie’s failures, acknowledging that it seemed more like a cartoonish parody than an earnest attempt to depict Trump’s formative years.
IndieWire’s David Ehrlich called it, “increasingly uncertain of its purpose as it fumbles toward the Trump we know, this origin story certainly isn’t as painful to watch as the future that it portends has been to endure, but it’s every bit as banal and unnecessary.”
Breitbart continues:
The Apprentice received reams of free publicity from the mainstream news media, which eagerly promoted the movie in the weeks leading up to its release this weekend. The movie scored puff-piece coverage from such outlets as The New York Times, CNN, CBS News, MSNBC, and the Hollywood trade publications like Variety.
While the director insisted on a debut close to Election Day, potentially because he was hoping the film could influence voters, the strategically timed release hasn’t had the desired effect.
Briarcliff obliged The Apprentice director Ali Abbasi’s wish to see the movie open just prior to November’s presidential election, presumably to maximize media coverage. At the movie’s splashy world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it played in competition but failed to win any prizes, Abbasi trashed former President Donald Trump as a fascist.
This is in sharp contrast to Matt Walsh’s Am I Racist? documentary, that has become one of the most successful documentaries of all time and the top documentary of the decade, surpassing domestic box office totals for Super Size Me.
It won’t be the only left wing film to hit theaters ahead of the election, with CNN’s Bakari Sellers’s pro-Harris documentary supposed to hit theaters this month, and Hillary Clinton’s pro abortion documentary Zurawski v Texas having debuted late in September, receiving financing from major dating and hook up app Bumble.
The Trump campaign has been vocal about The Apprentice, and tried to prevent its release via legal action. While they didn’t succeed, they ultimately had the last laugh following the film’s disappointing box office numbers and lukewarm reception by Hollywood’s most fervent anti-Trump liberals.
As Breitbart News reported, lawyers for former President Donald Trump sent a cease and desist letter to the filmmakers of The Apprentice in an effort to block the movie’s release, warning the producers not to pursue a domestic distribution deal.
The Trump campaign’s chief spokesperson Steven Cheung described it as “pure malicious defamation, should not see the light of day, and doesn’t even deserve a place in the straight-to-DVD section of a bargain bin at a soon-to-be-closed discount movie store, it belongs in a dumpster fire.”
Karma is a bitch
At 70+ Trump has been the center of attention in the business world WAY before his TV series. At this point, no one cares about the Left’s mud-slinging. I sure any idiot that spent their $15 to watch the movie was like, Wait, they forgot this and this and this. The story made of decades is TRUMPS story, not some fictional “screen writer”
Bottom line is WE DON’T CARE. And there is a word for women who sell themselves for sex. money and power. They are called W*****s And many of them follow extremely rich men for an “opporunity”