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Censorship: New Trump Movie Likely Won’t Be Shown in US Theaters
Distributors and theater owners are afraid to anger Trump and MAGA, so passing on the movie.
The movie is called The Apprentice. It is already making its way into movie theaters across Europe, but U.S. film distributors are not picking it up. Hollywood is buzzing with the fact that distributors, the people who buy the film and then place it in theaters, are afraid to anger Trump and MAGA.
Some insiders initially thought it was the fear that political drama pics don’t do well at the box office. Vice, the very good movie about Dick Cheney, was not a box-office winner. Nonetheless, The Apprentice was very well received at Cannes, receiving a boisterous ovation, and given the election year, it will likely do better. Nevertheless, the “self-censorship” for a political drama about a clearly corrupt and criminal presidential candidate who is currently the frontrunner has presented the country with one of its first tastes of what could soon be a common practice in our country.
Let me put it in simple, more concise language so I can wrap my head around this. A movie was made that was well-received by a very discerning audience. The actors, it is said, kicked ass with career-making portrayals of their subjects (Roy Cohn and Donald…
