No surprise, but no one is watch “Melania” on streaming.
A few days ago, Donald Trump called his wife a “movie star.”
Far from it.
“Melania,” an infomercial about a hollow woman, is now the 30th most watched show on Amazon Prime.
The “movie” is also out of the top 10 on the movie list.
Amazon Prime paid the Trumps $40 million for the movie, which cost maybe $2 million including music clearances.
The streamer spent another $35 million on marketing a product no one wanted.
Box office take totaled $16 million, half of which the theaters got.
Most theaters were empty, and it’s presumed that a lot of tickets were bought by Republican groups as a favor to Trump.
Brett Ratner’s film is a dull, self-serving tribute to a person who evidently doesn’t exist.
The irony here is that the movie is free to Prime subscribers, and ad-less thanks to sponsorship from Rupert Murdoch.
