{"id":2256152,"date":"2026-01-29T12:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2256152"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:47:09","slug":"melania-the-first-ladys-new-documentary-abruptly-pulled-from-release-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/melania-the-first-ladys-new-documentary-abruptly-pulled-from-release-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Melania,\u2019 the First Lady\u2019s New Documentary, Abruptly Pulled From Release in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Earlier this week, Amazon and the filmmaking team behind Melania<\/a> \u2014 the inaugural title from the First Lady<\/a>\u2019s new production company Muse<\/a> \u2014 were expected to announce the 20 or more countries where the documentary is opening overseas this weekend, timed to its Jan. 30 release in North America. But those plans never materialized.<\/p>\n

One possible reason for the switch-up emerged on Wednesday when a media outlet in South Africa reported that the film\u2019s distributor was pulling Melania<\/a> from release at the 11th hour. The president has been extremely critical of South Africa<\/a> since the start of his second term, including suggesting that the country\u2019s white minority is facing a genocide, and introducing potentially crippling tariffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased on recent developments, we\u2019ve taken the decision to not go ahead with a theatrical release in [the] territory,\u201d South African distributor Filmfinity<\/a> said in a statement to The New York Times\u2018s Johannesburg bureau.<\/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.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, Amazon and the filmmaking team behind Melania \u2014 the inaugural title from the First Lady\u2019s new production company Muse \u2014 were expected to announce the 20 or more countries where the documentary is opening overseas this weekend, timed to its Jan. 30 release in North America. But those plans never materialized. One […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2256153,"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-2256152","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\/\u2018Melania-the-First-Ladys-New-Documentary-Abruptly-Pulled-From-Release.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256152","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=2256152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256154,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256152\/revisions\/2256154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2256153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}