Three weeks after its screening at the Cannes Film Festival, Ali Abbasi’s film “The Apprentice” recounting the bumpy rise of a New York real estate developer named Donald Trump is still looking for a distributor in the United States. He is the victim of active lobbying by the Trump campaign against the Hollywood “majors”.
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Correspondent in the United States
By Maurin PicardPublished on 06/14/2024 at 12:47
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HASli Abbasi let his anger burst into the open, unable to contain it any longer. With an angry tweet on June 3, the Iranian-Danish director, who had just returned from the Cannes Film Festival, attacked the magazine The Nation and an article regretting the erosion of theater attendance, linked to an overabundance of sequels and remakes of superhero films, or even the absence of original and strong works in the seventh art in the United States. “I have a new proposition for you? It’s not a damn sequel, nor a crappy remake. It is called The Apprentice and, for some reason, influential people in your country don’t want you to see it!!! »
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