This, from the New York Times (Paywall) ...

[aggiesal]

‘Melania’ Arrives With Strong Box Office Showing, ... for a Documentary.

Talk about kissing up the family Mierda47.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/business/melania-documentary-box-office.html
Amazon backed up the Brink’s trucks for the vanity film, resulting in weekend ticket sales of about $7 million in North America, enough for third place.

The theater owners get half so about $3.5M is all Amazon gets from week 1 ticket sales after spending $75M

[bucolic_frolic]

1. They might get a marketing tax write-off as well /nt

[Dave Bowman]

2. Lol, yeah right.

[unblock]

3. As a "documentary", it's the most expensive ever, at 2.5 times the next biggest costing one.

A 2009 michael Jackson bio codt $30 million.
Fahrenheit 9/11 cost $6 million.

Of course, it's only nominally a documentary. In reality, it's a loyalty test and a grift/bribe vehicle.

[Journeyman]

4. Amazon (Bezos) will get far more than money from this film . . .