Inside the Legal Battle to Recut Trump Movie ‘The Apprentice’: Why Billionaire Investor Dan Snyder Is Furious With Ex-President’s Portrayal (EXCLUSIVE)

Brent Lang Executive Editor When Michael Angarano was trying to get “Sacramento,” his indie buddy comedy about two friends who go on a road trip to a certain state capital off the ground, the question he’d get was always the same. Does it really need to be set in Sacramento? “At one point we were ready to shoot the movie in Atlanta — we had the financing and everything,” remembers Angarano, who directed the film, as well as co-wrote it. “And this was for a movie called ‘Sacramento.’ But it’s like why try to cheat it? Maybe, we should we just call it ‘Athens’ or ‘Savannah’?” And even though Angarano and his co-writer Chris Smith weren’t that familiar with the city that inspired their film, its appearance on a highway sign, informing them of the California city’s distance from Los Angeles, was foundational.

EXCLUSIVE: The movie Donald Trump doesn’t want people to see is going global.

The Duke of Sussex's controversial memoir Spare rocked the Royal Family with its many shocking claims - but it seems it could also land Prince Harry in hot water. After writing in the book that he had used cocaine, marijuana and magic mushrooms in the past, questions were asked about whether Harry had declared this previous recreational drug use on his visa application when he relocated to the US.The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based think tank, is in the process of suing the US government for access to Prince Harry’s immigration records, stating that it is ‘a case about whether the government provides special treatment for high profile celebrities’. The foundation is referring to the paperwork the prince filed when he landed in the US on 14 March, 2020 as most people arriving in America must answer questions related to whether they have ever used recreational drugs.

Happy post-conviction day? Yesterday, Donald Trump became the first former American President to be convicted of felony crimes as a jury found him guilty on all 34 charges in his scheme to influence the 2016 election with his hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels who said the two engaged in sex while he was married to his current wife (oh, and he has three more criminal cases to deal with too). Trump has also been in the news for the film, “The Apprentice,” starring Sebastian Stan, which premiered at the recent Cannes Film Festival to solid reviews.

SPOILER WARNING: This story includes descriptions of major plot developments on the series finale of “Star Trek: Discovery,” currently streaming on Paramount+. Watching the fifth and final season of “Star Trek: Discovery” has been an exercise in the uncanny. Paramount+ didn’t announce that the show was ending until after the Season 5 finale had wrapped filming — no one involved with the show knew it would be its concluding voyage when they were making it.

The verdict is in for Donald Trump and he’s been found guilty on 34 of 34 state felony counts of falsifying records, making him the first former U.S. President to be found guilty of a crime. The verdict follows nine hours and 44 minutes of deliberations, per MSNBC.

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Daniel Bekerman, whose Donald Trump movie The Apprentice just premiered in competition at Cannes to strong notices, has set his next feature Knight’s Camp, a dark comedy starring Judy Greer (13 Going on 30, Ant-Man) and Sophia Lillis (It, Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves).

Donald Trump‘s campaign said earlier this week they would take legal action against the filmmakers behind Cannes hit The Apprentice, and now the former Celebrity Apprentice host’s team has made their first jab.

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EXCLUSIVE: Dahlings, Oscar-nominated Maria Bakalova is channeling an essence of Ivana Trump, who she praises as a “boss lady,” when we meet on a terrace at the Palais to natter about her slyly sublime portrait of Donald Trump‘s first wife in filmmaker Ali Abbasi’s Cannes hit The Apprentice.

The Apprentice” director Ali Abbasi has responded to the Trump campaign’s threat to sue over the movie, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival on Monday night. “Everybody talks about him suing a lot of people — they don’t talk about his success rate though, you know?” Abbasi said.

The Apprentice filmmaker Ali Abbasi was asked today at the pic’s Cannes press conference about Donald Trump‘s legal threats against the movie following its world premiere here at the fest.

Katcy Stephan Former President Donald Trump‘s campaign is hitting back following the premiere of the controversial film “The Apprentice,” which chronicles the 2024 presidential candidate’s early years as a real estate developer. “We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers,” the Trump campaign’s chief spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement to Variety.

Donald Trump‘s team is looking to seek legal action against an upcoming movie.

Five years ago, Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi broke out internationally with the Oscar-nominated “Border,” a thorny little beast of a fable about love, complicity, and guilt. His latest prods at some of the same themes, although the thorny little beast at the center of “The Apprentice” is far from a fictional creature of fables.

Already fighting dozens of indictments and a so-called hush money trial in New York, Donald Trump wants to head back to court over the movie that took Cannes by storm today.

Sebastian Stan is hitting the red carpet at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival!

Tatiana Siegel It proved to be the most disturbing scene in a movie chock full of unflattering sequences about Donald Trump. In Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice,” Trump (played by Sebastian Stan) violently throws his then-wife Ivana (Maria Bakalova) to the ground and proceeds to have nonconsensual sex with her. In the controversial scene, Ivana playfully presents a book to her husband about the merits of a female orgasm.

le town.The controversial movie “The Apprentice,” depicting the former president’s rise to fame in New York high society during the 1970s, premiered Monday at the Cannes Film Festival in France to a glamorous crowd including Cate Blanchett and Bella Hadid.The movie received a standing ovation ranging from eight to 11 minutes, according to accounts.In the drama, Sebastian Stan plays a younger Trump as he meets power lawyer and fixer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong of “Succession”) and first wife Ivana (Maria Bakalova of “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”).While his political ambitions are said to be hinted at, “The Apprentice” does not cover the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections or Trump’s four years in the White House. It also has nothing to do with the NBC reality TV series he hosted.What it does have, according to viewers, are shocks aplenty.During one cringey scene, Trump is said to get liposuction and a hair transplant.And, in another jarring moment, he violently rapes Ivana.

Donald Trump. “The Apprentice,” the story of the 45th and possibly 47th president’s early years as a real estate developer, earned a eight-minute standing ovation on Monday. It’s probably safe to assume that the film festival crowd isn’t a MAGA-heavy one, so it helps that “The Apprentice” paints a blistering portrait, focusing on Trump’s relationship with Roy Cohn, the McCarthy-ite lawyer and fixer who took an interest in the “the Donald” before he was a household name.