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| A ‘Crowdfunding’ Campaign is Apparently Needed to Dodge Threats and Fund a 10/11/24 Release of a Film That Portrays Trump in a Sleazy Way in the 70's and 80's |
| 2024-09-09 |
| [HollywoodReporter] ‘The Apprentice’ Producers Explain Why They Need a Kickstarter Campaign. Daniel Bekerman and Amy Baer talk about the legal threats from Trump that spooked distributors and why crowdfunding was right for their film: "We wanted to do whatever we could to make sure that the movie was seen." Yesterday, the filmmakers behind Donald Trump movie The Apprentice launched a Kickstarter campaign to assist with the October theatrical release of the film with a goal of raising $100,000. A day later, it has already topped that goal, raising more than $139,000 for the campaign, dubbed “Release The Apprentice.” A Kickstarter campaign is not the go-to move for a splashy, albeit independently financed, feature with award-winning stars like Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong, and a debut at the Cannes Film Festival. But The Apprentice has had a long and embattled journey to get to theaters. Since the film’s festival debut, its potential release has been mired in uncertainty. Dan Snyder, the pro-Trump billionaire, is involved with Kinematics, the company that put up equity for the film against domestic rights. Snyder was reportedly was displeased with the film’s depiction of Trump and sought to block its release. After the film’s Cannes debut, Trump’s lawyers sent a cease and desist letter also in an attempt to block the film’s release. The Apprentice, from director Ali Abbasi, explores Donald Trump’s (Stan) rise to power in 1980s America under the influence of the firebrand right-wing attorney Roy Cohn (Strong). Among the scenes that reportedly earned the ire of the former president and his backers are a sequence where he rapes his first wife Ivana and also scenes that show Trump getting liposuction. |
| Posted by:Fairbanks |
| #2 Among the scenes …a sequence where he rapes his first wife Ivana Based on something she said once, according to Slate, which was puzzled that once the divorce was done she seemed to adore her husband: In a divorce deposition, Ivana accused Trump of raping her, though later she said that she had not meant that in a literal sense. This specific detail, much discussed in the 2016 campaign, helped explain why so many people projected their feelings onto Ivana, and why they were so often disappointed: Plenty of Americans wanted to feel for her because she was abused (allegedly physically, but also mentally and emotionally)—and some certainly held out hope she would become a resistance figure, ascending to the person she appeared to be in a cameo in The First Wives Club in 1996. But she never fully landed that role. Instead, she defended Trump, remained his friend, and didn’t seem at all disturbed by the politician he became. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-09-09 10:51 |
| #1 Notes: o You've got to bet that Marla Maples is going to show up, and incidentally, photo's of Marla should be shown at least quarterly in the 'Good Morning' post. o The film makers readily state that the story is "a work of art and a work of fiction." Here's the ad on Kickstarter for The Apprentice https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/releasetheapprentice/release-the-apprentice?ref=discovery&term=trump&total_hits=697&category_id=293 |
| Posted by: Fairbanks 2024-09-09 01:37 |