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Sebastian Stan was tasked with gaining 15 pounds when he took on the role of Donald Trump in “The Apprentice” — a feat he managed with the help of Coca-Cola. “I actually started drinking a lot of Coca-Cola. Tell you, if you drink four Coca-Colas a day, a lot of things happen to your body. Don’t do it,” he told “Entertainment Tonight.”

“I think it is important that we try and understand this person beyond just, you know, the red tie and the flare and the mannerisms and everything, and just try to get underneath it,” Stan added.

Stan’s weight gain method of choice was somewhat appropriate, given Trump’s own love of soda. Of course, Trump doesn’t go for the sugary version — he shared in 2017 that he drinks 12 Diet Cokes a day.

“The Apprentice” is set in 1970s and ’80s New York, a time during which a young...

Briarcliff Entertainment has released the official trailer for The Apprentice, which had its world premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2024. The film will open in theaters on October 11.

Directed by Ali Abbasi and written by Gabriel Sherman, The Apprentice stars Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump, Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn, Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump, and Martin Donovan as Fred Trump.

A young Donald Trump (Stan), eager to make his name as a hungry second son of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn (Strong), the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today.

Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.

“The Apprentice is first and foremost humanist, which makes it radically different from all the political noise,...

Updated, 1:57 p.m.: Within a day of launching a Kickstarter campaign in hopes of expanding Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice‘s distribution potential, the filmmakers have exceeded their goal.

While the team behind the hot-button Ali Abbasi film had initially sought $100,000, which would help them get the film in front of as many viewers as possible, they’ve received $139,063 as of this writing from 2,040 backers, with 25 days to go in the campaign.

Taking to X (formerly Twitter) to celebrate, Abbasi wrote, “Wow we crushed our kickstarter target in one day! Apparently people Do want to see #TheApprentice in cinemas.”

While Briarcliff Entertainment will handle The Apprentice‘s pre-election U.S. release, as we were first to tell you, there had been some uncertainty around the awards prospect’s distribution prospects amid a dispute with Kinematics, the financier backed by Trump supporter Dan Snyder, who reportedly took issue with...

Director Ali Abbasi has launched a Kickstarter campaign in support of The Apprentice. Coming off of its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, Briarcliff Entertainment announced the film starring Sebastian Stan as a young Donald Trump would get an October 11, 2024 theatrical release. The pre-election date release is good news for Abbasi and his controversial movie. However, the filmmaker wants to expand the film’s audience via the “Release the Apprentice” Kickstarter campaign.

“The Apprentice is first and foremost humanist, which makes it radically different from all the political noise,” stated executive producer Amy Baer.

“Despite the integrity of the film and without even seeing it, Trump’s campaign sought to suppress it,” said producer Dan Bekerman. “The idea that artists can no longer freely criticize the powerful should concern us all. We need your help to resoundingly reject this dangerous precedent.”

The Apprentice was written by Gabriel Sherman...

Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong’s controversial movie about Donald Trump is taking matters into its own hands. “The Apprentice” is launching a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter with the goal of keeping the film “in as many theaters as possible for as long as possible,” a Tuesday press release reads.

“‘The Apprentice’ is first and foremost humanist, which makes it radically different from all the political noise,” executive producer Amy Baer said in a statement.

“Despite the integrity of the film and without even seeing it, Trump’s campaign sought to suppress it,” producer Dan Bekerman added. “The idea that artists can no longer freely criticize the powerful should concern us all. We need your help to resoundingly reject this dangerous precedent.”

“The Apprentice” was written by Gabriel Sherman and stars Stan as Trump, Strong as late prosecutor Roy Cohn and Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump. The movie centers around a young Trump,...

The controversial movie Donald Trump doesn’t want people to see is still being lined up for a pre-election release in the U.S.

The Apprentice, which made waves at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, is due for release stateside by Briarcliff, as we first reported. October 11 has been the date we’ve heard for a while now, but uncertainty has been fueled by a dispute with financier Kinematics, which is backed by Trump supporter Dan Snyder who reportedly took umbrage at the film’s depiction of the former Potus. The players have been inching towards a resolution and hopes are that it will be fully resolved in a matter of days.

The movie is due to roll out internationally from mid-late October with dates already set in multiple key markets. Last we heard, Kinematics was being bought out of the movie with its $5 million investment back and a premium of around $2M.

Exclusive: Here’s your first official look at Kazik Radwanski’s Matt And Mara starring Matt Johnson (Blackberry) and Deragh Campbell (Anne at 13000 Ft.), which opens September 13 at the IFC Center in New York.

The pic, which debuted at this year’s Berlinale, follows Mara (Deragh Campbell), a young creative writing professor, who reunites with Matt (Matt Johnson), a charismatic, free-spirited author from her past, a chance encounter threatens to spin her life in a thrilling new direction. Bonded by their history and shared interests, the two grow closer, while Mara contends with her strained marriage to an experimental musician. When her husband unexpectedly cancels plans to drive Mara to a conference out of town, Matt accompanies her instead and the pressure in their undefined relationship slowly builds.

Matt And Mara is Kazik Radwanski’s fourth film. His previous credits include Anne At 13,000 Ft (2019), which premiered at The Toronto International...

Exclusive: The movie Donald Trump doesn’t want people to see is going global.

While intrigue continues to surround the film’s U.S. release prospects, Cannes Competition title The Apprentice, about Trump’s rise to power, has been sold to key independent distributors in a host of international markets where demand has been strong.

International sales firm Rocket Science has set deals for the film’s release in Italy (Bim), Spain (Vertigo Films), Scandinavia (Nordisk), Benelux (The Searchers), Greece (Odeon), Portugal (Lusomundo), Eastern Europe (M2), Japan (Kino), Latin America (Sun), Israel (Lev Cinema), Airlines (Skeye) and Australia & New Zealand (Madman).

Deals were recently announced for UK (Studio Canal), France (Metropolitan) and Germany, Austria & Switzerland (Dcm). Mongrel is releasing in Canada via a pact sealed by producers.

Some of these deals were set before Cannes while others were inked on the Croisette where the film debuted last month to largely...

Exclusive: The English-remake of Israeli movie Longing starring Richard Gere has added Diane Kruger and Canadian actress Suzanne Clement.

In Longing, Gere plays a bachelor who is forced to evaluate his life choices when he discovers that an ex-girlfriend had given birth to his son twenty years ago. Savi Gabizon, who wrote and directed the original movie, is returning to helm.

Kruger plays Alice, the favorite teacher of Gere’s deceased son whilst Clement plays the boy’s mother, Rachel.

Daniel Bekerman produces under the Scythia Films banner along with Current Flow Entertainment’s Alexander Vinnitski and Arbitrage Pictures’ Neil Mathieson.

“We have been incredibly fortunate to attract such a stellar and multi award-winning cast for this very special and beautiful film, clearly a testament to Savi’s screenplay and vision for this English language remake”, says Vinnitski.

The Solution Entertainment’s Myles Nestel and Lisa Wilson...

Back in May, we got the exclusive first look at the trailer for first-time feature director Nyla Innuksuk’s alien invasion horror film Slash/Back, which is coming to us from Rlje Films and Shudder. The movie is set to receive a theatrical, digital, and VOD release on October 21st, and with that date just a few weeks away a new trailer for Slash/Back has arrived online. You can check it out in the embed above!

Scripted by Innuksuk and Ryan Cavan, the film has the following synopsis:

Set in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, a sleepy hamlet nestled in the majestic mountains of Baffin Island in the Arctic Ocean, Slash/Back opens as the village wakes up to a typical summer day. No School, no cool boys (well… except one), and 24-hour sunlight. But for Maika and her ragtag friends, the usual summer is suddenly not in the cards when they...

Exclusive: Toronto-based production company Good Question Media and Experimental Forest Films today announced the start of production on the upcoming drama Inedia.

Directed by Liz Cairns in her feature film debut, the film stars Amy Forsyth, Susanne Wuest (Goodnight Mommy), and newcomer Nova Brown. Production is underway on the flick, which is shooting on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada.

The film follows a young woman who, after a series of mysterious and debilitating allergic reactions to food, joins a radical community of people who claim to be nourished by light. The film explores an ancient belief that continues to have a following to this day in Breatharianism and its adherents: that you only need light to live.

“I’ve written this story from a deeply personal place, as an expression of my 15-year-long struggle with an eating disorder. Words can’t describe how moving...