{"id":447911,"date":"2026-02-04T05:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/447911\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T05:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:05:09","slug":"melania-doc-expands-to-more-cities-including-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/447911\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania Doc Expands to More Cities, Including Minneapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIt\u2019s literally the last place on Earth you\u2019d imagine movie-goers racing to see Melania<\/a>, the new $75 million Brett Ratner-directed documentary<\/a> about the first lady \u2014 but tickets are apparently selling fast in Minneapolis. Or at least fast-ish.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe movie, which opened better than predicted last weekend \u2014 pulling in $7.2 million<\/a> in just under 1800 theaters, the best showing for a non-concert doc in a decade \u2014 is being expanded to 2,000 theaters, with many of those additional screens in blue cities like New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, and, yes, the one in Minnesota where two U.S. citizens were gunned down last month by ICE agents, sparking widespread and on-going protests.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLook, the movie isn\u2019t for everybody,\u201d says Marc Beckman, Melania<\/a> Trump<\/a>\u2019s longtime advisor and the lawyer who put together her $40 million licensing deal to make the film with Amazon, which also spent an additional $35 million on marketing it. \u201cBut the people who voted [for Trump], they love it. And it\u2019s very satisfying \u2014 after all the negativity \u2014 to see that it\u2019s playing well in blue cities as well as red.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tExactly how well it\u2019s playing is subject to some interpretation. An unscientific look at theater maps in Minneapolis shows that a few theaters, like AMC Southdale 16, are indeed doing some business \u2014 15 of 80 seats for its Feb. 3 screening at 6:45 p.m. have sold so far \u2014 not terrible for a normally slow Tuesday night \u2014 while the AMC Eden Prairie Mall 18 has sold 26 seats, nearly half the theater, for its 6:15 screening. Curiously, all those 26 sold seats at Eden Prairie are contiguous, which suggest either they were purchased in a block or else movie-goers are much more friendly in Minneapolis than in the rest of the country. Also, nobody seems to be interested in going to the next showing, at 7:30, at the same theater; only two seats have been sold for that screening.\u00a0Meanwhile, AMC Inver Grove 16 has sold only three tickets for its 6:45 show and Coon Rapids 16 has sold precisely zero for its at 7:30.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf course, the film will be even more widely available when it starts streaming on Amazon Prime, alongside a two or three-episode Melania Trump<\/a> doc series \u2014 made from bonus footage shot by Ratner \u2014 but that may take a while. Beckman predicts the movie won\u2019t drop until sometime this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s literally the last place on Earth you\u2019d imagine movie-goers racing to see Melania, the new $75 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[159529,88,163617,7182,206,3479],"class_list":{"0":"post-447911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-brett-ratner","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-melania","11":"tag-melania-trump","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447911","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=447911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}