Thursday, May 21, 2026

“Melania” Movie Of Little Interest to International Audiences, Starts with Just $84K in Five Countries Including UK, Australia, Italy

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The “Melania” infomercial went over like a lead balloon internationally this past weekend.

Total take so far from five countries came to just $84,000.

The UK was top with $44,814. Other countries included Italy, Australia, Portugal, and New Zealand.

The latter total was $3,229.

And those were the curiosity seekers.

You can only imagine the scant interest around the world for “Melania” after Donald Trump has ransacked and mocked countries, deported millions and kidnapped people off the street.

Something tells me there will be empty theaters in Greenland, Panama, Canada, and South America especially!

Also, of the many strange things in Brett Ratner’s film, there’s no sense of Melania being a mother to Barron. The 19 year old appears in the film for a nanosecond. We still haven’t heard his voice — ever. And he didn’t come to the red carpet premiere at the Kennedy Center.

I hope they haven’t forgotten he’s in the basement!

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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