{"id":463758,"date":"2026-02-12T07:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/463758\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T07:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:40:07","slug":"amazon-pulls-melania-the-movie-from-oregon-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/463758\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon pulls Melania (the movie) from Oregon theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small independent movie theater in Lake Oswego, OR, a Portland suburb, was planning to show the movie Melania. But Amazon called and pulled the movie, apparently because they were upset with how the theater had chosen to advertise the movie on their marquee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lakeoswegoreview.com\/2026\/02\/02\/lake-oswego-theater-cancels-melania-screenings-after-marquee-jokes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lake Oswego Review<\/a>, the Lake Theater &amp; Caf\u00e9\u00a0marquee had initially\u00a0 stated\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDOES MELANIA WEAR PRADA? FIND OUT FRIDAY!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTO DEFEAT YOUR ENEMY. YOU MUST KNOW THEM. MELANIA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After being informed that Amazon was pulling the movie, the marquee was changed to<\/p>\n<p>AMAZON CALLED<\/p>\n<p>OUR MARQUEE MADE THEM MAD<\/p>\n<p>ALL MELANIA SHOWS CANCELED<\/p>\n<p>SHOW YOUR SUPPORT AT WHOLE FOODS INSTEAD \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>So why was an independent progressive theater showing the movie in the first place? According to\u00a0\u00a0General Manager Jordan Perry,<\/p>\n<p>Financially, the film marketplace this week and next were a desert\u2026 So, to fill a screen, why not get this inexplicable vanity piece from the current president\u2019s wife? I mean, it just seems so weird that it even exists (who wants a movie about Melania lol?), and wouldn\u2019t it then be exponentially weirder, to the point of being funny, to show it here, at your obviously anti-establishment, occasionally troublemaking, neighborhood cinema?<\/p>\n<p>So, maybe Jeff Bezos doesn\u2019t have a sense of humor after all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small independent movie theater in Lake Oswego, OR, a Portland suburb, was planning to show the movie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-463758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463758","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=463758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}