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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Catherine Shoard

Melania drops 67% at US box office as Rotten Tomatoes defends record-breaking audience scores

On the way out … Melania and Donald Trump in a scene from the documentary.
On the way out … Melania and Donald Trump in a scene from the documentary. Photograph: Regine Mahaux/Amazon MGM Studios

Melania, Brett Ratner’s authorised documentary following the first lady in the 20 days preceding Donald Trump’s January 2025 inauguration, has dipped 67% in its second week of release in the US.

The film outpaced expectations over its first weekend, taking in $7.2m domestically and leading Amazon to expand their rollout from around 1,500 venues to just over 2,000. But indications are that appetite had already been sated, with Sunday projections standing at $2.3m, meaning a drop from No 3 to No 10 in the US box office charts.

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