Former President Donald Trump is no fan of The Apprentice, and he’s letting the world know about it. The biopic follows Trump’s early years as he became the real estate tycoon simply known as “The Donald” as he rose to prominence in the 1980s. The feature film opened in roughly 1,700 theaters nationwide and pulled…
In May, after I saw and reviewed the how-Donald-Trump-learned-to-be-Donald-Trump biopic “The Apprentice” at the Cannes Film Festival, I had dinner with a group of very sharp-minded film folks, and we all agreed that the movie, if treated with the right marketing savvy, had the potential to make a splash. A few days later, I woke…
If you’ve seen any publicity for “The Apprentice” — the controversial new biopic about a young Donald Trump’s tutelage under the ruthless Roy Cohn — then you know the party line, hocked in one interview after another by the film’s cast: The movie took seven years to make; nearly didn’t happen three times; narrowly escaped…