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EXCLUSIVE: The back and forth over the prospect of a hot-button film on the formative years of Donald Trump is near done, and The Dish hears that backer Kinematics will soon be bought out of Daniel Snyder’s $5 million investment with a premium. Tom Ortenberg, who runs Briarcliff Entertainment and has…

Donald Trump’s campaign said earlier this week they would take legal action against the filmmakers behind Cannes hit The Apprentice, and now the former Celebrity Apprentice host’s team has made their first jab. As the Ali Abbasi-directed film seeks a distribution deal to get on U.S. screens, lawyers…

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The Apprentice filmmaker Ali Abbasi was asked Tuesday at the film’s Cannes Film Festival press conference about Donald Trump’s legal threats against the movie following its world premiere here the night before. “Everybody talks about him suing a lot of people, they don’t talk about his success rate…

Already fighting dozens of indictments and an ongoing hush-money trial in New York, Donald Trump wants to head back to court over the movie that took Cannes by storm today. "We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers,”  the Trump campaign's…

The Trumps were on the red carpet this evening at the Cannes Film Festival — sort of — as Ali Abbasi's The Apprentice world premiered in competition. The film was greeted with an 11-minute post-screening ovation at the Grand Theatre Lumiere. Sebastian Stan, the Emmy and Golden Globe nominee known for…

Don’t be confused about the title The Apprentice. This is not a movie version of the NBC reality TV series in any way, but instead a smart, sharp and surprising origin story of the man who hosted it. In this case the actual “apprentice” is Donald Trump…

Cannes Film Festival hosted the world premiere of The Apprentice, the latest film from director Ali Abbasi led by  Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova and Martin Donovan. Abbasi was joined by the film’s cast including guests Molly Manning Walker, Nadine Labaki, and Cate Blanchett who all walked the red…

Following a highly successful collaboration on Hulu’s Pam & Tommy, Sebastian Stan and Lily James are set to reteam on Let the Evil Go West, a psychological horror thriller from director Christian Tafdrup (Speak No Evil). north.five.six. reps the film’s international rights and will introduce it to…

Immediately off the back of its inclusion in the Cannes Film Festival Competition lineup Thursday, Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice has dropped a first look of Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn. Billed as an exploration of power and ambition, set in a world of corruption and…

A Different Man tackles weighty themes of disability, identity and transformation. Directed and written by Aaron Schimberg and starring Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve and Adam Pearson, what emerges is a complex portrayal of the clashes between outer perceptions and inner truths. While it makes a valiant…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s one you probably didn’t see coming: Sebastian Stan, the Emmy and Golden Globe nominee known for his work in the MCU and the acclaimed Hulu miniseries Pam & Tommy, has been tapped for the role of a young Donald Trump in The Apprentice, a new film from Cannes prize-winning Iranian…