Previous U.S. President and Republican governmental prospect Donald Trump and previous very first woman Melania Trump smile after speaking throughout an election night occasion at the West Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, early on Nov. 6, 2024.
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Amazon Prime Video revealed Sunday that it is accrediting a documentary about once-and-future very first girl Melania Trump.
The film, initially reported by Fox News.com, emerged weeks after a Wall Street Journal report that Jeff Bezos, the creator and executive chairman of Amazon, prepared to contribute $1 million to the inaugural fund of President-elect Donald Trump.
Bezos, who has actually formerly been slammed by Trump, likewise consulted with the president-elect at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida after his election win over Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Amazon Prime Video has actually specifically certified an approaching documentary for both theatrical and streaming release that will provide audiences an extraordinary, behind-the-scenes take a look at First Lady Melania Trump,” an Amazon representative stated Sunday.
“Filming started in December 2024, with an awaited release in the 2nd half of 2025. Prime Video will be sharing more information on the task as shooting advances and release strategies are completed. We are delighted to share this genuinely special story with our countless clients around the globe,” the representative stated.
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The Melania Trump film is being executive produced by Fernando Sulichin of New Element Media and is being directed by Brett Ratner, who in 2017 was implicated by several ladies of sexual misbehavior. Ratner, who rejected the claims, had actually not made a film ever since.
CNBC has actually connected for remark from Bezos, whose approximated $238 billion fortune puts him at No. 2 on Forbes’ list of most affluent individuals on the planet.
In a 2019 suit, Amazon declared it lost a $10 billion cloud computing agreement with the Pentagon to Microsoft due to the fact that Trump utilized “incorrect pressure … to damage his viewed political opponent,” Bezos.
Jeff Bezos, creator and executive chairman of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, speaks throughout the New York Times yearly DealBook top at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 04, 2024 in New York City.
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The Melania Trump motion picture offer emerged 2 days after Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist at The Washington Post– which is owned by Bezos– stated she had actually resigned from the paper due to the fact that her employers obstructed the publication of a satirical animation portraying Bezos and other billionaires kneeling before Trump.
The animation includes satirical illustrations of Bezos, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg holding up bags with dollar indications to Trump, who is on a pedestal. Another male seen kneeling before Trump, holding up a lipstick tube, represents Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire publisher and owner of the Los Angeles Times paper.
