{"id":2251731,"date":"2026-01-26T21:03:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2251731"},"modified":"2026-01-26T21:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:03:23","slug":"melania-trumps-documentary-expected-to-tank-at-box-office-after-amazon-paid-40-million-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/melania-trumps-documentary-expected-to-tank-at-box-office-after-amazon-paid-40-million-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump\u2019s Documentary Expected To Tank At Box Office After Amazon Paid $40 Million For It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The White House and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0874339\/\">President Donald Trump<\/a> are making moves to save the opening week of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm11035510\/\">First Lady<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1514936\/\">Melania Trump<\/a>\u2018s documentary, set to be released on January 30 and widely expected to bomb.<\/p>\n<p>Entitled <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt35291758\/\">Melania<\/a>, the project cost Amazon\u2019s MGM Studios $40 million. It is projected to make just $5 million on its opening weekend, even though the studio is spending an additional $35 million on marketing and expanding the release to 27 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainment reporter <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4126894\/\">Rob Shuter<\/a> claimed that advance ticket sales for the movies have been \u201cdismal\u201d and theaters are expected to be \u201cpractically empty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As promotion for the movie, on January 23, the First Lady Office\u2019s X account posted, \u201cFirst&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House and President Donald Trump are making moves to save the opening week of First Lady Melania Trump\u2018s documentary, set to be released on January 30 and widely expected to bomb. Entitled Melania, the project cost Amazon\u2019s MGM Studios $40 million. It is projected to make just $5 million on its opening weekend, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2251732,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2251731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Melania-Trumps-Documentary-Expected-To-Tank-At-Box-Office-After.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251731","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=2251731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251733,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251731\/revisions\/2251733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}