“The Apprentice,” a controversial biopic that portrays a young Donald Trump as a rapist, is an absolute box office bomb despite fawning media coverage.
According to a report from Breitbart News, the film is set to gross just $1.5 million in its opening weekend. “That’s an embarrassingly low figure given the movie received a wide release on 1,740 screens, for a per-screen average of about $862,” Breitbart News reported.
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“Since most screens feature multiple showings a day, that means from late Thursday to Sunday, there was an average of around five people per showing — in other words, mostly empty theaters.”
Glowing coverage and spotlights from several prominent media outlets have been unable to save the film, which is coming in well below its opening weekend expected gross of $3.5 million. The movie received puff pieces from the New York Times, CNN, CBS News, MSNBC, and several entertainment magazines, such as Variety.
The film, which stars Sebastian Stan as a young Donald Trump, has been billed as an “exploration of power and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit,” according to an official synopsis. “It’s a mentor-protege story that