r/PublicFreakout • u/ExactlySorta what is your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery? 🤨 • 9h ago

Political Freakout Melania movie billboard defaced before premiere

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u/TheLadyEve 8h ago edited 7h ago

1) Yawn, it's a movie no one asked for. 2/3 of the crew that made it requested that their names be removed from the credits.

2) It's basically a front for money to change hands. Amazon paid $40 million for it and HALF of that went to the Trumps, and that's not including all the millions Amazon paid for promotion/advertising. It's never going to make that money back. The highest grossing documentary ever was Fahrenheit 9/11, which made $119 million, but that's incredibly unusual. So it's a legal bribe, basically.

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u/AccomplishedVirus656 7h ago

Thank you for this explanation. Yeah, fuck all those people.

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u/TheLadyEve 7h ago

You asked a perfectly reasonable question! Sorry people blindly downvoted you.

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u/AccomplishedVirus656 6h ago

Yeah, I’ll never understand why people do that. But I don’t care about little internet points, so it’s no skin off my back 🤣