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‘The Apprentice’ Distributor Tom Ortenberg On Pic’s Prospects After Soft Opening: Late Weekend Trajectory, Donald Trump’s ‘Human Scum’ Attacks Could Fuel Long Run Until Elections
‘The Apprentice’ Distributor Tom Ortenberg On Pic’s Prospects After Soft Opening Returns: Late Weekend Trajectory, Donald Trump’s ‘Human Scum’ Attacks Could Fuel Long Run Until Elections
EXCLUSIVE: Nobody relishes being insulted the way that the makers of The Apprentice were in a late night Trumpian tirade on Truth Social, but the man charged with distributing the Donald Trump-Roy Cohen coming of age drama hopes that the Republican Presidential candidate’s tweeting finger is just getting warmed up. Considering the weekend was dominated by the third outing of the murderous clown in Terrifier 3, leaving several festival favorites – Saturday Night and Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story were as lauded as The Apprentice – was generally disheartening to the specialty picture community. A big part of the pic’s challenge was it took so long to extricate part-financier Kinematics, and there wasn’t time or a lot of money to mount a traditional P&A spend including TV spots.
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