{"id":271839,"date":"2026-01-30T11:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/271839\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T11:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:49:11","slug":"from-freemelania-to-film-melania-as-her-documentary-is-released-is-it-a-stroke-of-genius-or-a-political-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/271839\/","title":{"rendered":"From #FreeMelania to Film Melania: As her documentary is released, is it a stroke of genius or a political blunder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Directed by Brett Ratner, the $40m film is released today\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Melania hiding in plain sight at Donald Trump's inauguration in 2025. Photo: AFP\/Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3acdc3bc-77ba-4a0f-b3f1-fa1339ef7d18.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Melania hiding in plain sight at Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration in 2025. Photo: AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Everybody wants to know, so here it is\u2026 these are the words Melania Trump teases in her new film. And last week\u2019s release of Melania is a multi-million dollar bid at shaping her narrative, complete with glossy hair and stiletto boots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The documentary, directed by Brett Ratner and distributed by Amazon MGM Studios, is the most daring step in her reinvention. According to Forbes magazine, Amazon MGM Studios reportedly paid $40m for the rights and another $35m on marketing and distribution of the film on which Melania is listed as executive producer. Somewhat surprisingly, it is being shown in cinemas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Directed by Brett Ratner, the $40m film is released today Melania hiding in plain sight at Donald Trump&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6992],"class_list":["post-271839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-people-culture-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}