{"id":2334610,"date":"2024-08-30T22:07:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T02:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/controversial-trump-film-the-apprentice-to-release-before-2024-election-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T22:11:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T02:11:42","slug":"controversial-trump-film-the-apprentice-to-release-before-2024-election-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/controversial-trump-film-the-apprentice-to-release-before-2024-election-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial Trump film The Apprentice to release before 2024 election &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcontroversial-trump-film-the-apprentice-to-release-before-2024-election-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2334610&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A controversial film titled *The Apprentice*, which depicts aspects\u200d of former President\u200b Donald Trump&#8217;s life,\u200b is set to \u2064be released in theaters on October 11, just weeks before the\u200c 2024 elections. The film, featuring Sebastian Stan as a young Trump, initially struggled to attract \u200binterest during its debut at the Cannes Film Festival. Distributed by Briarcliff \u2063Entertainment, the film has\u2062 drawn comparisons to\u2063 Michael Moore&#8217;s work, especially regarding its political commentary.\u2063 Steven \u2063Cheung, the Trump campaign&#8217;s communications director, criticized the film \u2063as an example of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-recruits-allies-on-capitol-hill-to-defend-him-ahead-of-third-indictment-2\/\" title=\"Trump enlists Capitol Hill allies to protect him before third indictment.\">election\u200b interference<\/a> by Hollywood elites,&#8221; labeling it as malicious and unworthy of public screening.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Controversial Trump film The Apprentice to release before 2024 election<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1742742\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/movies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>movie<\/a> chronicling parts of former President<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title> Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a> life, <em>The Apprentice<\/em>, has found a distributor and is set to release in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/theater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>theaters<\/a> on Oct. 11.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The movie previously struggled to garner interest at the Cannes Film Festival despite its well-known star, Sebastian Stan, who is playing a young Trump. Now audiences will see the film just under a month before Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Briarcliff Entertainment is distributing the film and also distributed filmmaker Michael Moore&rsquo;s <em>Fahrenheit 11\/9<\/em> 2018 film, which chronicled a large part of the 2016 presidential election and Trump&rsquo;s presidency. Moore compares Trump&rsquo;s rise to the presidency to Hitler&rsquo;s rise to power in Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign&rsquo;s communications director, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/wireStory\/trump-film-apprentice-finds-distributor-open-election-113279021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>told<\/a> ABC News that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-world-removes-animatronic-that-could-be-offensive-to-alcoholics-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Disney World removes animatronic that could be offensive to alcoholics - Washington Examiner\">film&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s release &ldquo;election interference by Hollywood elites right before November.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This &lsquo;film&rsquo; is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-trump-film-debuted-to-much-fanfare-at-cannes-but-look-what-happened-when-festival-closed\/\" title=\"Controversial Film Premiered at Cannes, See What Occurred Post-Festival\">pure malicious defamation<\/a>, should never see the light of day, and doesn&rsquo;t even deserve a place in the straight-to-DVD section of a bargain bin at a soon-to-be<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-legal-battle-trump-calls-the-apprentice-biopic-garbage-threatens-lawsuit\/\" title=\"Trump Derides &#039;The Apprentice&#039; Biopic as &#039;Trash,&#039; Signals Potential Legal Fight\">-closed discount movie store<\/a>, it belongs in a dumpster fire,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warner-bros-shelves-batgirl-movie-despite-spending-90-million-shocking-industry\/\" title=\"Warner Bros. Shelves \u2018Batgirl\u2019 Movie Despite Spending  Million, Shocking Industry\">movie drew<\/a> the ire of the Trump campaign in part because it depicts Trump raping then-wife Ivana, who is played by <em>Borat<\/em> sequel actress Maria Bakalova. In Ivana Trump&rsquo;s 1990 divorce deposition, she alleged that Donald Trump raped her, though he denied it and she later restated that she felt violated.<\/p>\n<p>Danish Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi expressed his frustration in the past that the film had trouble finding a distributor. &ldquo;Its not a sequel nor is it a remake,&rdquo; wrote Abbasi. &ldquo;Its called The Apprentice and for some reason certain power people in your country don&rsquo;t want you to see it!!!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But he still thinks Donald Trump would want to see it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I would offer to go and meet him wherever he wants and talk about the context of the movie, have a screening and have a chat afterwards, if that&rsquo;s interesting to anyone at the Trump campaign,&rdquo; Abbasi said in May.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Baklova and Stan, <em>Succession<\/em> star Jeremy Strong plays Roy Cohn, a lawyer who represented Donald Trump and who was Sen. Joseph McCarthy&rsquo;s chief counsel during the so-called Red Scare of the early 1950s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1742742\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1742742\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial Trump Film &#8220;The Apprentice&#8221; Set for Pre-2024 Election Release<\/p>\n<p>A film detailing aspects of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s life, titled &#8220;The Apprentice,&#8221; has secured a distributor and is scheduled to hit theaters on October 11. Despite featuring prominent actor Sebastian Stan as a young Trump, the film faced challenges in attracting attention at the Cannes Film Festival. It will now be released just weeks before the upcoming Election Day. Briarcliff Entertainment, which also distributed Michael Moore&#8217;s 2018 documentary &#8220;Fahrenheit 11\/9,&#8221; is behind this release. Moore&#8217;s film examined significant events from the 2016 presidential election and Trump&#8217;s presidency, drawing parallels between Trump&#8217;s ascent and Hitler&#8217;s rise in Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Cheung, communications director for the Trump campaign, criticized the film\u2019s timing as \u201celection interference by Hollywood elites right before November.\u201d He described it as \u201cpure malicious defamation\u201d that should not be shown publicly and suggested it belongs in a dumpster rather than on store shelves.<\/p>\n<p>The movie has provoked backlash from the Trump campaign partly due to its portrayal of an alleged incident involving Trump and his then-wife Ivana, played by Maria Bakalova. In her divorce deposition from 1990, Ivana accused Donald Trump of rape; he denied these claims while she later indicated feelings of violation.<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Ali Abbasi expressed his disappointment over difficulties in securing distribution for what he insists is neither a sequel nor a remake. He stated that certain influential figures seem intent on preventing audiences from seeing it but believes that Donald Trump would still be interested in watching it. Abbasi even offered to meet with him for discussions about the movie\u2019s context if anyone from Trump&#8217;s campaign was interested.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Bakalova and Stan, Jeremy Strong from &#8220;Succession&#8221; portrays Roy Cohn\u2014a lawyer who represented Donald Trump and served as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the early 1950s Red Scare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2334611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/trump-movie-apprentice.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32431,39797,39796,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2334610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-2024-election","tag-controversial-film","tag-the-apprentice","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/trump-movie-apprentice.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2334611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}