We virtually didn’t see “The Apprentice” earlier than Election Day.
Most distributors needed no a part of the anti-Trump characteristic. President Donald Trump threatened authorized motion for what he deemed false depictions of him, together with a controversial rape scene within the movie’s third act.
Earlier than then, A-list administrators like Clint Eastwood and Paul Thomas Anderson reportedly handed on the undertaking.
Briarcliff Leisure took an opportunity on the completed movie which earned an eight-minute standing ovation on the Cannes Movie Competition in Could.
Seems that gamble may not repay.
“The Apprentice” earned simply $150,000 at Thursday screenings from 1,750 screens. The latter is roughly half what most mainstream motion pictures obtain of their debut frames. It’s sufficient to make an inexpensive quantity of coin.
“Am I Racist,” for instance, nabbed slightly below $5 million from a barely smaller display screen depend mere weeks in the past.
As is, “The Apprentice” could battle to make $2 million by Sunday. Reviewers largely raved concerning the movie (77 p.c “contemporary” at Rotten Tomatoes) however audiences are removed from thrilled.
The far-Left Deadline stories the PostTrak information, and it’s ugly: Audiences scored it with 2½ stars and a forty five p.c “particular suggest” ranking.
Phrase of mouth could not save the day.
“The Apprentice” stars Sebastian Stan as a younger Donald Trump discovering his method by means of New York’s actual property market. Jeremy Sturdy performs Roy Cohn, the disreputable fixer who aligned himself with Trump within the mogul’s early life.
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— Evans Donnell (@EvansDonnell) October 11, 2024
The movie begins robust however routinely portrays Trump in probably the most unflattering methods doable. That features insinuations he acquired liposuction and hair transplants and suffered from erectile dysfunction.
The latter could come as a shock to Stormy Daniels.
“The Apprentice” has earned gallons of free cyber-ink in latest weeks. Outlet after outlet reported on the movie, director Ali Abbasi and Sturdy’s Oscar possibilities. The press protection proved uniformly constructive, with many shops selling the movie as an awards season darling.
That, apparently, didn’t persuade film goers.