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Controversial Donald Trump Movie ‘The Apprentice’ Made a Splash in Cannes. Is Hollywood Too Scared to Release It?
'The Apprentice' was embraced at Cannes, but is Hollywood too scared to release the controversial Donald Trump movie?
“ The Apprentice,” a scathing portrait of a young Donald Trump, dominated the Cannes Film Festival, scoring with critics, sparking an eight-minute standing ovation and prompting a fiery response from the 45th president’s legal team. Still, Kinematics, which was founded by Snyder’s son-in-law Mark Rapaport, likely won’t scuttle a deal because it would damage the fledgling company’s reputation within the creative community and create the impression that it is willing to censor artists. In fact, multiple industry insiders who screened Abbasi’s film in the South of France note that “The Apprentice” would have been tailor-made for Harvey Weinstein, who stormed into the 2004 Cannes edition with Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 911,” a withering look at George W. Bush that was released as the president was mounting his reelection bid.
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