Former President Donald Trump has personally sounded off on “The Apprentice” movie for the first time, calling the controversial biopic “fake,” “classless,” and a “pile of garbage.”
Moviegoers across the country have fired The Apprentice. The controversial Trump biopic — which portrays the young Donald Trump as a rapist — is set to gross around $1.5 million on its opening weekend. That’s an embarrassingly low figure given that the movie received a wide release on 1,740 screens, for a per-screen average of about $862.
The Apprentice left the Cannes Film Festival empty-handed, with no announcement of a U.S. distribution deal following former President Donald Trump’s threat of a lawsuit and cease-and-desist demand against the filmmakers.
Sebastian Stan will play Donald Trump in the feature film, “The Apprentice,” which will be flopping soon at a theater near you.
Gabriel Sherman, the biographer of late Fox News founder Roger Ailes, has reportedly set up his next project — a TV drama series set in the cut throat world of New York real estate.
Actor Russell Crowe has reportedly signed on to play the late Roger Ailes — former Chairman and CEO of Fox News — in a Showtime mini-series entitled The Loudest Voice in the Room.
Former Fresno State football coach Pat Hill was known for his “anyone, anytime, anyplace” motto while he was building the school’s program last decade, and former White House Chief Strategist Steve K. Bannon seems to be using Hill’s playbook by taking the message of economic nationalism to all communities and people of all political persuasions and backgrounds. In recent weeks, mainstream media reporters have been discovering that Bannon’s message is winning over Democrats and people of color who take the time to meet with Bannon instead of buying into false stereotypes about him.
MSNBC contributor John Heilemann said on Monday that Breitbart News is more powerful and influential than Fox News when it comes to influencing elections. “Breitbart is a more powerful media institution and a more powerful media institution on the right than Fox News,” he said on Hardball.
Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed Breitbart’s coverage of the Trump administration in a Q & A with New York Magazine’s Gabriel Sherman.
Gabriel Sherman writes in New York Magazine that President-elect Donald Trump got the upper hand against the media on Wednesday by turning his first post-election press conference “into a debate over journalistic practices.”
Gabriel Sherman reports in New York Magazine on Megyn Kelly’s departure from Fox News for NBC. Sherman’s sources claim that the cable network hopes to replace Kelly with a “pro-Trump conservative” female host in order “to align itself with the new administration.” Another Fox insider tells Sherman that Rupert Murdoch “balked when Kelly asked for $25 million late in the talks,” a claim which a source close to Kelly disputes.
The lawyer representing Hillary Clinton’s recount efforts recently led legal battles against state voting laws with an infusion of funding from billionaire George Soros.
On SEC Super Tuesday, Donald Trump cleaned up. He won seven states and now leads the field with 319 delegates entering a comfortable stretch for him before winner-take-all states kick in.
This article first appeared in Mediaite. The sustained credibility afforded to New York Magazine‘s Gabriel Sherman is one of the industry’s great mysteries. Not since Eddie Mush in A Bronx Tale has one person been so consistently wrong so often.
