It was just a 75mil payment from Amazon to trump. Movie was just the means to do the transaction.
Coincidentally, Ratner just got greenlit for Rush Hour 4, which had been in development hell since 2018.
Even so, they had a massive budget, a competent director, and they didn't manage to produce something that paints her in a good light.
Oh he's competent alright.
Funny way to spell complicit

ew her nails
Ew her
I hate that our country has become so fascist that this dumb bitch's movie failing feels like a victory.
This is shocking 😲 /s!
Honestly I am shaken, if something this good could fail what is the meaning of anything?
I wish it was nothing, but for Canadians, America is a big scowling dictatorship of pure evil.
Take your fucking country back.
I love Canada, but this holier than thou mindset I keep seeing is getting tired. Remember Poilievre was polling ~20 points higher than Carney, until Trump started his 51st state horse shit. The entire world seems to be swinging right, and Canada just got lucky this time.
We are all in this together whether you want to be or not.
Indeed. All of europe will fall if we don't get popular reform to challenge the far right, now backed by the US and Russia, running themselves as reform and all other major parties captured by the establishments/oligarchies.
I love that this quote applies to both the movie and the actual person.
The old story. Churches and other MAGA groups are buying blocks of seats. It's playing to "sold out" empty houses.
At least Eva Braun was interesting.
Mel brooks should do a Producers about Maga. Too soon?
We'll finally get to see "Hitler on ICE"
These dumb shits don't get it. It was never supposed to be good. It was a bribe. Even wasting a second watching it to do a review is a waste of human effort.
Nick Hilton... said that the first lady came off in the film as “a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness” who leads a “vulgar, gilded lifestyle.”
He's saying it's accurate then?
Currently on Rotten Tomatoes:
%11 Critics
%99 Audience
What's the point in review-bombing when it's so obvious?
Remember when people tried to frame her as a victim? What stank of a person.
That's also an accurate description of narcissism—a void of nothingness. Those people only live on the outside, because they don't exist within themselves
The funniest thing about this is she isn't even hot. She looks like every soccer mom in every suburban town everywhere.
There’s no way this thing cost $75 mil to make. It’s a documentary.
Why would movie critics go to see a money laundering attempt?
Because it's their job? They can't just watch what they like.

-War of the World 2025: 4% RT
-this propaganda: 10% RT
The heck
A scowling void of pure nothingness
Sounds like a sick video game summon.
You cannot fast travel to Epstein Island.
75 million dollars. 75. Million. Dollars.
How much of it went to the crew and other people who actually made the damn thing?
Or even used for their benefit in other way, for that matter - I'm asking because apparently the crew did overtime hours with no food while the director lorded over the underlings and stuffed his face. (Don't do overtime if your boss isn't personally ordering you a ton of pizza, guys.)
Oh NO! We NEED to Pass a Bill to Quickly Rectify THIS!
-Chuck Schumer!
Unfortunately, boomer women have made it a box office hit.

This has to be propaganda
I have zero doubts that MAGA money is being spent on buying out showings and that the propaganda machine is running at 110%. I also do not doubt that a lot of boomer and older Gen-X/Jones MAGA women in are going to see it. These are not.mutually exclusive things.
EDIT: the article is from The Hollywood Reporter, which is definitely not right leaning.
Its official budget was $40 million (presumably before marketing), so I'm not sure that this can be called a hit on an $8 million box office
Just for giggles I checked my local theater yesterday afternoon. There were 6 seats purchased for the 6:30 show, and, as of 9:15, none for the 9:30 showing. On a Saturday night.
I wonder if it's like book sales, where a publisher or other entity buys a ton of copies to make it a "Best-seller". Are the seats being filled, or are the tickets just bought out to make it appear more successful?
Yes. Conservative groups are buying out whole theatres that then show the movie to empty seats.
There’s Craigslist ads paying people to go see it
I loved the one from the Guardian comparing it to Zone of Interest. Utterly boring but makes you think about the off-screen horrors of the Trump regime
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