Melania Trump’s self-titled documentary Melania has set a file because the lowest-rated film on IMDb of all time. The Brett Ratner-directed film tells the story of the life Trump, specializing in her function because the First Girl and her relationship with President Donald Trump. It had a vast launch in theaters this previous weekend, starting January 30.
The movie’s launch was a part of a brand new focus for Trump, as she invested extra time into the media world. She produced and appeared on this documentary, which additionally acted because the first film launched beneath her new manufacturing banner, Muse Movies. Trump unveiled this manufacturing firm late final yr, although its plans after Melania are unclear.
Melania has now set a brand new file, however it isn’t a fascinating one. The movie is now the lowest-rated film on IMDb of all time. On the time of writing, the documentary has a median of simply 1.3 stars out of 10 with 24,000 evaluations. At one level, the movie had reached a low of 1.1 stars, in line with Complicated Pop Tradition.
Melania didn’t come with out danger for its distributor, Amazon MGM. The film had a reported price range of no less than $40 million. It is a hefty price ticket for any documentary, not to mention one concerning the First Girl of a extremely controversial president.
Given movies usually must make between 2x and a couple of.5x their price range with a view to break even, Melania must rake in no less than $100 million to keep away from main losses.
Issues are usually not wanting good for the movie up to now in that regard, as its three-day opening weekend complete amounted to $8.1 million. That is truly notably excessive for a documentary, marking the very best opening for such a movie in 5 years. Nevertheless, that complete is nowhere the form of momentum wanted for Melania to finish up reaching $100 million.
Adverse press from sources like IMDb customers will definitely not help its longer-term field workplace, particularly with a second weekend dropoff anticipated as typical of most movies. Critics are usually not liking the movie both. Up to now, it has a rotten 10% on Rotten Tomatoes with 20 evaluations in up to now.
Curiously, the movie remains to be faring positively amongst Rotten Tomatoes audiences, with a 99% approval score on the time of writing. This isn’t completely sudden for a political movie, mirroring the audience-critic cut up for 2024’s Reagan. Nonetheless, this Rotten Tomatoes viewers victory is probably going not sufficient to maintain Melania afloat on the field workplace.
Melania
- Launch Date
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January 30, 2026
- Runtime
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104 minutes
- Director
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Brett Ratner
- Producers
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Fernando Sulichin, Brett Ratner, Melania Trump, Marc Beckman
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