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The upcoming Melania Trump<\/a><\/strong> documentary, a $40 million project from Amazon and MGM, is allegedly going to flop at the box office. The \u201cMelania\u201d film, which covers the three weeks the first lady experienced before Donald Trump was inaugurated as the president for a second term, is set to premiere at various locations across America on January 29, including the renamed Trump-Kennedy Center<\/a>. It will then release in theaters nationwide the following day on January 30. But sales for the upcoming movie are apparently dismal, according to several insiders.<\/p>\n The Melania documentary is allegedly experiencing low ticket sales, particularly for its opening weekend, as noted by several sources speaking on Rob Shuter\u2019s Naughty But Nice Sub<\/a>s<\/a>tack<\/a>.<\/p>\n One insider said, \u201cThe studio was expecting a big turnout, but so far it\u2019s not materializing. They may even hold back official box office numbers if the opening is weaker than expected.\u201d<\/p>\n This concurs with recent predictions from BoxOfficePro, a site which specializes in tracking the box office forecasts for upcoming movie releases. For its long-range forecast on January 2<\/a>, the Melania documentary is only expected to draw in $1 million to $2 million at the domestic box office for its opening weekend.<\/p>\n By comparison, two other Amazon\/MGM movies releasing around the same time as the Melania documentary are expected to bring in much more. The film \u201cMercy\u201d coming out on January 23 has a predicted domestic opening forecast of $15 million to $25 million, while the movie \u201cCrime 101\u201d releasing on February 13 has a forecast of $12 million to $18 million. As a general rule, most film productions need to bring in at least two times its production budget to break even, which would mean \u201cMelania\u201d would need to cross the $80 million mark at the box office for Amazon and MGM to see a profit.<\/p>\n Other insiders agree with this box office assessment and are concerned that the film\u2019s premiere has struggled to make much of a splash, even in states where Donald Trump has majority support.<\/p>\n \u201cIn New York, only a handful of seats have been booked,\u201d one source said. \u201cPalm Beach is no better. Even in Trump country, theaters are practically empty.\u201d<\/p>\n As one insider put it, the hype surrounding the Melania film doesn\u2019t necessarily lead to audiences shelling out the cash to see it at theaters. \u201cIt\u2019s a high profile project,\u201d an insider admits, \u201cbut hype doesn\u2019t always translate into ticket sales. People are curious, but they\u2019re not rushing to buy tickets yet.\u201d<\/p>\n This is despite the fact that the president has previously claimed<\/a> that getting a ticket to the film\u2019s Kennedy Center premiere has been difficult. He said that hockey legend Wayne Gretzky and his wife Janet wanted to attend, but that it\u2019s a \u201cvery hard ticket\u201d to get. Trump also called his wife\u2019s film \u201cincredible\u201d after seeing \u201cpieces of it.\u201d That said, a glitzy premiere for the movie may not mean much when it comes to ordinary Americans wanting to see the film in theaters.<\/p>\n Another issue the Melania movie faces in terms of box office sales is that it\u2019s slated to release on Amazon Prime at some point, where it will likely be offered for free as part of the subscription service. According to Yahoo Finance<\/a>, nearly 75% of US shoppers have an Amazon Prime subscription, which means that those interested in seeing the movie can wait to see it later on demand.<\/p>\n Various sources have previously said that Melania Trump has deliberately erased any mention of Ivanka Trump<\/a> from the film and has not invited Trump\u2019s eldest daughter<\/a> to the Kennedy Center premiere too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.realitytea.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The upcoming Melania Trump documentary, a $40 million project from Amazon and MGM, is allegedly going to flop at the box office. The \u201cMelania\u201d film, which covers the three weeks the first lady experienced before Donald Trump was inaugurated as the president for a second term, is set to premiere at various locations across America […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2238152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[432347,22389,108970,31122,433083,398014,433084],"class_list":["post-2238151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-contex","tag-donald-trump","tag-explainer","tag-melania-trump","tag-political-personalities","tag-trump-family","tag-trump-kennedy-center"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Melania-Trump-Documentary-Box-Office-Predictions-Arent-What-AmazonMGM-Expected.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238153,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238151\/revisions\/2238153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2238152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Box office predictions for Melania doc\u2019s opening weekend are low<\/h2>\n