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Trump film 'The Apprentice' finds distributor, will open before election

After struggling to drum up interest following its Cannes Film Festival premiere, the young Donald Trump drama “The Apprentice,” starring Sebastian Stan as the former president, has found a distributor that plans to release the film shortly before the election in November

The Independent UK

Controversial Trump biopic to receive pre-election release in US

The Apprentice, an 80s-set drama with a scene in which he sexually assaults his wife, will get an October release

The Guardian - US

Release date for Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice starring Sebastian Stan confirmed in the UK

The film, which is directed by Holy Spider's Ali Abbasi, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year

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Controversial Film About Young Donald Trump Struggles For Distribution

Film 'The Apprentice' faces distribution challenges in the U.S. due to its critical portrayal of young Donald Trump and controversial scenes, despite posit...

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Trump film 'The Apprentice' made noise in Cannes, but it still lacks a US distributor

Two weeks after its much-anticipated premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, a film about Donald Trump in the 1980s is still seeking distribution in the United States

The Independent UK

Trump lawyers seek to block US release of biopic The Apprentice

Ali Abbasi’s film, which shocked audiences at its world premiere at Cannes, depicts former president raping his first wife

The Guardian - US

Trump campaign sends cease and desist letter to block release of biopic The Apprentice

Letter warns the film’s producer not to pursue a distribution deal

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OPINION - Donald Trump is too scared to speak in his own defence, but that's not slowing him down

Donald Trump has complained nonstop for weeks about being gagged. The hush money trial, involving an alleged pay-off to porn star Stormy Daniels, has been monstrously unfair, he wailed repeatedly outside court. According to his own version of events, his prosecution was a horrible witch hunt, built on lies, because…

Evening Standard

‘The Apprentice’ director shrugs off threat of Trump lawsuit over explosive Cannes biopic

Filmmaker Ali Abbasi has played down the threat of legal action over his Donald Trump biopic “The Apprentice”, which caused a stir at the Cannes Film Festival this week but may struggle to secure a US theatrical release in the run-up to the November 5 presidential election.

France 24

‘This garbage is pure fiction’: when subjects hit back at their biopics

Trump has spoken out against The Apprentice, but he’s not the first celebrity to attack an unflattering big-screen portrait

The Guardian - US

The Apprentice: how to watch, awards, reviews, trailer, cast, plot, reviews and everything we know about the Sebastian Stan movie

Sebastian Stan plays a young Donald Trump in the movie The Apprentice. Here's everything you need to know about the movie.

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The Apprentice director offers to screen movie for Trump after lawsuit threats

The Trump campaign has said they will be ‘filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers’

The Independent UK

Trump campaign vows to sue after Cannes premiere of 'The Apprentice' biopic

Donald Trump’s reelection campaign called “The Apprentice,” a film about the former U.S. president in the 1980s, “pure fiction” and vowed legal action following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. But director Ali Abbasi is offering to privately screen the film for Trump.

France 24

Trump movie The Apprentice: ‘I don’t think it is a movie he would dislike,’ says director

Ali Abbasi spoke at Cannes about his controversial new film, which the Trump campaign has said ‘belongs in a dumpster fire’

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Donald Trump's campaign team threatens to sue filmmakers over 'The Apprentice' biopic

‘This garbage is pure fiction’, said Trump’s campaign after scenes cast the presidential candidate in an unpleasant light

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Trump Campaign Threatens Legal Action Over 'The Apprentice' Film

Trump campaign criticizes 'The Apprentice' film as 'pure fiction,' threatening legal action. Director Ali Abbasi emphasizes addressing fascism through cinema.

The Independent UK

The Apprentice review roundup: What critics are saying about docudrama on Donald Trump’s early years

Origin story of former US president premiered at Cannes Film Festival on Monday

The Independent UK

Trump campaign threatens to sue over portrayal in biopic ‘The Apprentice’

Film portrays former president’s rise as real estate tycoon

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The Apprentice: Trump campaign threatens legal action over biopic that depicts him as a rapist

Campaign spokesperson called Ali Abbasi’s film, which premiered at Cannes on Monday, ‘pure fiction which sensationalises lies that have been long debunked’

Evening Standard

The Apprentice review: Sebastian Stan shines in drama about how Donald Trump went from wannabe to mogul

This origin story does an excellent job of showing the rise and rise of Donald Trump

The Independent UK

'The Apprentice,' about a young Donald Trump, premieres in Cannes

While Donald Trump’s hush money trial entered its sixth week in New York, an origin story for the Republican presidential candidate premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, unveiling a scathing portrait of Trump in the 1980s

The Guardian - UK

Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice depicts him as a rapist

Ali Abbasi’s film, starring Sebastian Stan, presents a fictionalised account of an incident recorded in Ivana Trump’s 1990 divorce deposition, and since retracted

The Guardian - UK

The Apprentice review – cartoon version of chump-in-chief Donald Trump’s early years

Ali Abbasi’s film presents young Donald as an amoral narcissist, wastes the talent of Jeremy Strong and includes a grisly rape scene that is quickly glossed over

The Independent UK

Roy Cohn: The ‘evil’ master architect who mentored Donald Trump, as seen in The Apprentice

Decades before Trump erected his Tower, an insidiously well-connected New York power-player was cutting a ruthless path through US society, politics and courtroom battles. A new film charts Roy Cohn’s outsized influences on America and the 45th president, writes Sheila Flynn