{"id":325588,"date":"2026-03-06T21:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/325588\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:01:08","slug":"melania-trumps-doc-reveals-streaming-release-date-on-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/325588\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump&#8217;s Doc Reveals Streaming Release Date on Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe first lady\u2019s much-discussed documentary <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/melania-review-brett-ratner-melania-trump-documentary-1236489604\/\">Melania<\/a> will debut March 9 on Amazon\u2019s streaming service Prime Video after quietly winding down its run in theaters, where it has earned north of $16.4 million domestically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMelania is<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/politics-news\/melania-trump-brett-ratner-documentary-interview-1236489826\/\"> one of the most expensive docs in history<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/amazon-mgm-studios\/\" id=\"auto-tag_amazon-mgm-studios_1\" data-tag=\"amazon-mgm-studios\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon MGM Studios<\/a> ponied up $40 million for rights to the project, and is counting on the film to serve up presidential-sized viewership numbers on Prime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe doc chronicles the 20 days before Trumps second inauguration as president, and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/melania-doc-premiere-brett-ratner-75-million-trump-1236489307\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">directed by Brett Ratner in his first film<\/a>\u00a0since he was accused of multiple incidents of sexual misconduct (he denies any wrongdoing).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe doc <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/melania-box-office-comes-in-third-1236491295\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">started off its box office run with something of a bang<\/a> over the Jan. 30-Feb. 1 weekend following a world premiere at the Trump-Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., attended by the president. Melania opened in third place with a better-than-expected $7 million from 1,778 theaters, the best showing in a decade for a nonfiction title, excluding concert pics and Disney nature titles. And it beat\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jason-statham\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Statham<\/a>\u2018s new action pic,\u00a0Shelter, which opened to $5.5 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHowever, the momentum didn\u2019t last, but the pic did deliver a victory for the overall business in attracting older females. Melania dropped off a steep 67 percent in its sophomore outing. By its fourth weekend, it was shedding theaters because of diminished demand, and was available in only 505 locations, followed by 100 cinemas over the Feb. 27-March 1 weekend, when it placed No. 34 with $56,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMelania hoped to be a major player overses, where Film Nation was brought on to handle getting the doc cinto theaters but foreign grosses were never reported. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first lady\u2019s much-discussed documentary Melania will debut March 9 on Amazon\u2019s streaming service Prime Video after quietly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5877,1239,54,93814,146,85,46,20401,397],"class_list":["post-325588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-amazon-mgm-studios","tag-box-office","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump-jr","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-melania-trump","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}