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Inside the battle to release controversial Trump movie ‘The Apprentice’

The American release of Donald Trump movie “The Apprentice,” starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong, is in question, despite a distribution deal on the table.

This isn’t about trying to stifle a movie that is critical of Trump, the person adds, but rather a more mundane Hollywood story about a production company that simply has different financial aims than its producing partners — as well as a strident disagreement over the inclusion of the rape scene —and is using its power to negotiate a better deal. According to the 1993 book “Lost Tycoon,” Ivana made the rape accusation in a 1990 sworn divorce deposition, but later clarified her earlier statement, noting that she did not mean those words in “a literal or criminal sense.” She added, “As a woman, I felt violated.” Trump has denied the allegation. Further strife between the financiers and the creatives arose just before the Cannes premiere, when Kinematics sent a letter to the other producers demanding that the rape scene be removed or toned down, along with other changes andconcerns raised by their lawyer, per their rights of mutual approval over the finalcut.

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