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Trump Campaign Threatens Lawsuit Against Ali Abassi’s ‘The Apprentice’

© APPRENTICE PRODUCTIONS ONTARIO INC. / PROFILE PRODUCTIONS 2 APS / TAILORED FILMS LTD. 2023 Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is threatening a lawsuit against Ali Ablassi’s film The Apprentice, which debuted at Cannes this week to an 11-minute standing ovation. Complaining about “blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers,” campaign spokesperon Steven Cheung denounced the film,…

Sebastian Stan To Play Young Donald Trump in Ali Abbasi’s ‘The Apprentice’

@The Falcon and the Winter Soldier  Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi started production this week on The Apprentice, a new film about the controversial rise of the Trump organization in the 1980s. In an exclusive report, Deadline said on Wednesday that Sebastian Stan has been tapped to play the role of the young Donald, with Jeremy Strong…

NewFest : “Fellow Travelers”/ A Stunningly Beautiful Glimpse into the Lavender Closet of the 1950s

The gay male community in the United States experienced two existential crises in the late twentieth century: one in the 1950s and another in the 1980s. During the McCarthy Era, a decade or more before the Stonewall uprising in 1969, homosexuals—typically closeted—in the State Department and other federal agencies were persecuted as perceived security risks,…