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- Amazon Prime Video will release the two-part Melania Trump docuseries on Nov. 20, with a trailer for 'Melania, The Series' published alongside the announcement.
- Melania, The Series is split into two episodes — 'Family & Trust,' following Trump's preparation to become First Lady, and 'Pride & Honor,' set moments after the inauguration — and includes 'content never before shared with the public.'
- Melania, The Film had its theatrical release on Jan. 30 and its streaming release on March 9, and the docuseries follows that rollout.
- Amazon paid $40 million for the rights to 'Melania' and $35 million on marketing, while the film grossed $16.6 million worldwide and lost tens of millions theatrically — even as its press release touted 'the historic success of Melania, The Film.'
- Brett Ratner directed 'Melania' and executive produced it with Melania Trump and Marc Beckman, producing alongside Fernando Sulichin, Muse Films, New Element Media and RatPac Entertainment.
- Owen Gleiberman, Variety's chief film critic, called the film a 'cheeseball infomercial of staggering inertia,' 'so orchestrated and airbrushed and stage-managed that it barely rises to the level of a shameless infomercial,' and said it 'should have been called Day of the Living Tradwife.'
Why it matters: Amazon is turning a film that lost tens of millions into a two-part Prime Video release on Nov. 20, with $40 million in rights and $35 million in marketing spent against $16.6 million earned worldwide. Viewers get two episodes of the First Lady portrait Variety's Owen Gleiberman called 'staggering inertia,' undercutting the studio's own 'historic success' line.
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