Discussion

• @tomsteyer Tom Steyer on x

  “Sorry, we put your salary toward the $75M ‘Melania’ budget to curry favor with President Trump.”

• @ronfilipkowski Ron Filipkowski on x

  We got to go through that whole Nobel Prize shit again when Melania doesn't get nominated for an Oscar.

• @repjackkimble Rep. Jack Kimble on x

  The odd thing about the Melania movie is that rather than having ushers at the theatre doors to stop people sneaking in, they have them on the other side to stop people sneaking out.

• @glen_mcgregor Glen E. McGregor on x

  “Melania” opens on Friday in Ottawa. Lots of great seats still available. (And by “lots” I mean every single seat for every showtime listed.) [image]

• @bruce_arthur Bruce Arthur on x

  Jeff Bezos paid tens of millions to license and distribute the Melania film, and is about to cut jobs at the Washington Post, and anyway, here is how the Melania movie is doing in early UK box office https://www.theguardian.com/ ... [image]

• @covie_93 @covie_93 on x

  Might go watch Melania's documentary at the theater so I can spend some time alone.

• @jayblackisfunny Jay Black on x

  Melania, the documentary no human wants to see, has a budget of $40 million, $28 million of which is “licensing fees” paid to the Trumps. FYI to all the MAGAs who fart out “hE dOnAtEs HiS saLaRy!!”, that one $28 million Bezos bribe is **70 years** worth of presidential salary.

• @nategilbert Nate Gilbert on x

  Not a single ticket sold for the opening night of Melania at Boston's largest theater [image]

• @bmeiselas Brett Meiselas on x

  MELANIA has been nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography in the FIFA Oscars

• @bmeiselas Brett Meiselas on x

  The best thing on the internet right now is people posting screenshots of the empty seat selections for the Melania doc

• @travisakers Travis Akers on x

  Not a single ticket sold for the opening night 9:55pm showing of Melania at the busiest movie theater in the metro-Jacksonville area. [image]

• @oldfriend99 @oldfriend99 on x

  Protesters are being paid to not buy tickets to see the Melania movie

• @hearinladotcom @hearinladotcom on x

  How bad are ticket sales going to be hear in LA for the Melania movie? Amazon + The White House are already buying seats they dont intend on using to fudge the numbers. Hear is an empty screening, except for two seats wayyyyyyy on the right side of the theater. #bebest [image]

• @sundaedivine @sundaedivine on x

  The opening of “Melania” seems to be going well. [image]

• @jeff__benjamin Jeff Benjamin on x

  These two stories both came out today $35 million could have gone to save over 2,500 of the 16,000 @Amazon employees is cutting but instead went to promoting a @MelaniaTrump movie if you needed any more indication of the current administration's priorities [image]

• @bmeiselas Brett Meiselas on bluesky

  MELANIA has been nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography in the FIFA Oscars

• r/boxoffice r on reddit

  NYT: Amazon's Promotion of ‘Melania’ Has Critics Questioning Its Motives; “The $35 million for marketing is 10 times what some other high-profile documentaries have received.”

• r/entertainment r on reddit

  Amazon's Promotion of ‘Melania’ Has Critics Questioning Its Motives

• r/USNEWS r on reddit

  Amazon's $35 Million ‘Melania’ Promotion Has Critics Questioning Its Motives

• r/StrangeAndFunny r on reddit

  Movies Theaters Will Sell a Melania Trump Popcorn Bucket This Weekend