{"id":2257569,"date":"2026-01-30T06:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2257569"},"modified":"2026-01-30T06:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:38:10","slug":"melania-doc-premieres-in-d-c-as-director-brett-ratner-says-75-million-price-tag-wasnt-about-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/melania-doc-premieres-in-d-c-as-director-brett-ratner-says-75-million-price-tag-wasnt-about-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Melania\u2019 Doc Premieres in D.C. as Director Brett Ratner Says $75 Million Price Tag \u201cWasn\u2019t About Corruption\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">\u201cHumanitarian.\u201d \u201cBrilliant.\u201d \u201cCompassionate.\u201d \u201cIntelligent.\u201d Just some of the words guests at the Kennedy Center premiere for Melania, the Amazon MGM Studios documentary about <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> in the days before the 2025 presidential inauguration, used in their overly effusive praise for the subject of the film. \u201cUnprecedented\u201d was another word that came up specifically to describe the doc \u2014 which reportedly was bought for $40 million and given a marketing budget of $35 million \u2014 at Thursday\u2019s gala screening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been to a number of performances at the Kennedy Center, and I\u2019ve never seen the whole center branded,\u201d noted one red carpet reporter. Indeed, the Kennedy Center (or the Trump-Kennedy Center, as it was referred to on the invite) had the First Lady\u2019s name printed across windows and walls, along with glowing letters across the steps and repeated everywhere. But perhaps the biggest surprise of all was the 34-minutes <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0874339\/\">President Donald Trump<\/a>&#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>\u201cHumanitarian.\u201d \u201cBrilliant.\u201d \u201cCompassionate.\u201d \u201cIntelligent.\u201d Just some of the words guests at the Kennedy Center premiere for Melania, the Amazon MGM Studios documentary about First Lady Melania Trump in the days before the 2025 presidential inauguration, used in their overly effusive praise for the subject of the film. \u201cUnprecedented\u201d was another word that came up specifically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2257570,"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-2257569","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-Doc-Premieres-in-DC-as-Director-Brett-Ratner-Says.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257569","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=2257569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257571,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257569\/revisions\/2257571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2257570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}