The Apprentice arrives at the cinema, the film about the rise of Donald Trump flops at the box office before the US elections

2024-10-15 10:03:00

The Apprentice, the film that chronicles Donald Trump‘s rise to power, flops at the box office in North America

For many of this year’s most anticipated films, the audience response wasn’t quite as expected. Flopped at the box office Megalopolis Of Francis Ford Coppola And The Joker: Folies a Deux Of Todd Phillips now we also add that of The Apprenticethe biopic that chronicles the rise of Donald Trumptheir interpreter Sebastiano Stan. The film of Ali Abbasi will arrive in Italian theaters on October 17 but in North America to date it has obtained less than 1.6 million dollars, or a tenth of the budget invested by the production. All this just under three weeks before the vote for the US elections.

The Apprentice opened the Cannes Film Festival and for many it could have been among the Oscar candidates. The film was presented in around 1,700 cinemas in areas mostly close to the liberal trend such as New York, Los Angels, San Francisco, Chicago and Washington. The critics appreciated it but the audience wasn’t as receptive.

For Owen GleibermannVariety’s critic, the box office flop was nevertheless inevitable given that supporters of Trump they would certainly have boycotted it while liberals don’t feel the need to go to the cinema to have their ideas confirmed. Furthermore, we must add the threats from the Republican campaign against the film due to a scene of sexual violence suffered Ivana Trumpex-wife of the tycoon, which she herself denied in 2015.