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The Chilling Reason You May Never See the New Trump Movie

Negotiations are ongoing, and domestic distribution could still come together.

Yet the possibility that American audiences won’t be able to see “The Apprentice”
isn’t just frustrating.

It’s frightening,
because it suggests that
💥Trump and his supporters have already intimidated some media companies, 💥which seem to be pre-emptively capitulating to him.

Some established distributors might simply be reluctant to take on “The Apprentice” because they think political films are money losers;
as The Hollywood Reporter pointed out, Adam McKay’s 2018 Dick Cheney biopic, “Vice," was considered a “major flop.”

But “The Apprentice” is a far buzzier film than “Vice,” and it appears from industry reporting that the movie industry is less worried about finding an audience than about poking the MAGA bear.

As Puck’s Matthew Belloni wrote after talking to potential buyers,
“several that really liked the film are still out on ‘The Apprentice,’ in part because of the politics of the moment
— which is to say fear of the politics of the moment.”
Emanuel Nuñez, president of the production company Kinematics, one of the film’s investors, told me,
“Trump attacked the film and, unfortunately, it appears that
💥Hollywood right now doesn’t have the stomach to release this film and take him on.”💥
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/opinion/the-apprentice-trump-movie.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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