Los Angeles, Aug 31 (IANS) With just a few months left for the US presidential election, the controversial biopic “The Apprentice” on US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is all set to release before that.
According to media reports, the film will be released in American and Canadian cinemas in October, a few weeks before the US presidential election in November.
The sensitive film is set to be released by Briar Cliff Entertainment on October 11, ahead of the election, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Briar Cliff Entertainment is an indie distributor based in Santa Monica, California.
Directed by Ali Abbasi and written by Vanity Fair, the film stars Emmy Award-nominated actor Sebastian Stan as Trump, reports news agency Xinhua.
‘The Apprentice’, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, traces Trump’s career as a real estate businessman in New York in the 1970s and 1980s. According to the Los Angeles Times, the film lagged behind in the Cannes competition and stirred controversy.
According to the newspaper’s report, after the announcement of the film’s release, Trump’s communications director Steven Cheung called it trash and fiction. He also decided to file a lawsuit against the filmmakers to stop the film from being released.
The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. The Apprentice subsequently found distributors in Canada, Europe and parts of Asia, but the film faced resistance in the US as nervous studios, streamers and indie distributors failed to win over the support of Trump and his fans.
After months of negotiations, Briarcliff stepped up and acquired the film’s domestic distributor rights, the report said.
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