The Amazon documentary released on January 30 has so far grossed $7 million. Host Jimmy Kimmel called the box-office performance of a film that, according to him, was playing to empty theaters “suspicious.”
“I’m sure Donald J. Corleone had nothing to do with it,” he joked during his monologue on Wednesday (4). The late-night host said that “Melania” does not have enough fans to generate such revenue.
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“They had the best opening for a non-musical documentary in 10 years, which I think is a fancy way of saying they only lost tens of millions of dollars,” Kimmel quipped.
The production reportedly cost Amazon MGM $75 million, including production and marketing expenses.
“Now there are reports suggesting that those beautiful box-office numbers may have been boosted by bulk ticket purchases that were then given away to people,” he said in his monologue.
The host also commented on the episode in which the Republican National Committee bought nearly $100,000 worth of copies of Donald Trump Jr.’s book “Triggered” in 2019 to make it a New York Times bestseller.
“No one ever even opened that book. It could be full of blank pages. We’ll never know,” he joked.
“It was the biggest opening for a non-musical vanity project mixed with an outright corporate payoff in 10 years,” Kimmel jabbed.
Jimmy Kimmel also noted that “Melania” held just a 5% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
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