There was no debating it – Bill Maher‘s Real Time was going to talk about Thursday night’s presidential candidates battle and the consequences of Joe Biden’s performance.
22.06.2024 - 07:25 / deadline.com
Bill Maher stumped tonight on Real Time for the U.S. release of The Apprentice, the Cannes Competition title starring Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump and Emmy-winner Jeremy Strong as Trump’s onetime firebrand lawyer, Roy Cohn.
“It looks great,” said Maher before observing, “This is Trump’s origin story under the tutelage of Roy Cohn.”
The Real Time host continued, “It’s being released in Japan, Canada, the U.K., Germany, [but] no one here will touch it. It bothers me so much.”
Deadline reported earlier this month on the movie’s distribution deals: International sales firm Rocket Science has set deals for the film’s release in Italy (BIM), Spain (Vertigo Films), Scandinavia (Nordisk), Benelux (The Searchers), Greece (Odeon), Portugal (Lusomundo), Eastern Europe (M2), Japan (Kino), Latin America (Sun), Israel (Lev Cinema), Airlines (Skeye) and Australia & New Zealand (Madman). Deals were also made for the UK (Studio Canal), France (Metropolitan) and Germany, Austria & Switzerland (DCM). Mongrel is releasing in Canada.
Industry watchers were expectant the film would get a U.S. deal soon after its Cannes launch. Some assumed a streamer would be the most logical fit. However, in an election year, threats of legal action from Trump’s team (the film includes a controversial scene in which the Trump character rapes his former wife Ivana) and a report of one disgruntled financier, didn’t help progress towards a swift domestic pact.
The state of play earlier this month was that multiple parties remained interested in the film domestically, and there was confidence a deal will get done, probably this month.
Maher didn’t sound so sure, and he was not happy.
“This is MY industry, you f*cking p*ssies,” he said, before commanding,
There was no debating it – Bill Maher‘s Real Time was going to talk about Thursday night’s presidential candidates battle and the consequences of Joe Biden’s performance.
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