{"id":429036,"date":"2026-01-25T13:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T13:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429036\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T13:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T13:33:08","slug":"white-house-holding-vip-melania-screening-ahead-of-doc-premiere-with-mike-tyson-tim-cook-andy-jassy-and-more-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429036\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Holding VIP \u2018Melania\u2019 Screening Ahead of Doc Premiere With Mike Tyson, Tim Cook, Andy Jassy and More (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The official premiere<\/a> of the Amazon-backed Melania movie isn\u2019t until Thursday night at the Kennedy Center, but with a snowstorm about to bear down on Washington, D.C., First Lady Melania Trump is opening the White House for a special dinner and screening for 70 of her friends, family members and assorted VIPs.<\/p>\n

The event, which has not been promoted or advertised, is taking place in the East Room of the White House on Saturday. Guests include director Brett Ratner;\u00a0Queen Rania of Jordan; Zoom CEO Eric Yuan; Apple CEO Tim Cook;\u00a0New York Stock Exchange CEO Lynn Martin; AMD CEO Lisa Su; Mike\u00a0Tyson; socialite and Fiat heiress Azzi Agnelli; self-help guru Tony Robbins; and photographer Ellen von Unwerth, who shot the movie poster for the film.<\/p>\n

More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/p>\n

Barron Trump and Ratner\u2019s mother will also be on hand, along with Mike Hopkins of Amazon Studios, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and Marc Beckman, a senior adviser and longtime manager to the First Lady who was reportedly involved in every aspect of the project.<\/p>\n

Since the usual White House screening room in the East Wing has been shut down to construct the Trump ballroom<\/a>, Melania built a make-shift theater, with state of the art sound and film equipment (overseen by\u00a0Ratner himself), and a giant movie screen brought in for the occasion.<\/p>\n

Sources say nobody outside of Melania, Ratner and a very small group of their associates have yet to see the movie, including the President<\/a> and his advisors, who are watching it Saturday night for the first time.<\/p>\n

A full military band will meet guests\u00a0at the door to play \u201cMelania\u2019s Waltz,\u201d a song\u00a0composed especially for the film by Hollywood composer Tony Neiman. The band will stay on to play songs from Hollywood movies for the guests.<\/p>\n

The event will have glossy, commemorative black and white popcorn boxes for guests, served by gloved waiters so they won\u2019t get fingerprints on them.\u00a0Specially\u00a0framed tickets to\u00a0the movie will also be available to take home.<\/p>\n

The Amazon-funded\u00a0movie\u00a0(to the tune of $59 million)\u00a0is opening nationwide in theaters on Jan. 30, preceded by a Kennedy Center premiere for\u00a0VIPs\u00a0and dignitaries on Jan 29. Concurrently with the Kennedy Center, they\u2019re having smaller premieres in 20 cities including Nashville, Boston, San Francisco and Vegas for \u201clocal VIPs,\u201d friends and supporters of the First Lady, featuring red carpets and step and repeats.<\/p>\n

Billboards for the doc have already gone up, alongside a massive TV and radio advertising blitz. Though the Melania team hasn\u2019t commented on the marketing dollars spent on the project, they deny Matt Belloni\u2019s report<\/a> of $35 million.<\/p>\n

The movie tracks Melania from Trump\u2019s 2025 presidential campaign to inauguration day. A source close to the First Lady indicates that Ratner spent months living at Mar-a-Lago for shooting.<\/p>\n

Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/p>\n

Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official premiere of the Amazon-backed Melania movie isn\u2019t until Thursday night at the Kennedy Center, but with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[19353,72294,159529,236,88,203800,21459,51879,203799,7182,203798,4532,25658,3123],"class_list":["post-429036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-andy-jassy","tag-barron-trump","tag-brett-ratner","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-giant-movie-screen","tag-hollywood-reporter","tag-kennedy-center","tag-lynn-martin","tag-melania-trump","tag-queen-rania-of-jordan","tag-tim-cook","tag-tony-robbins","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}