‘Melania’ Movie Humiliates Critics and Media Naysayers with Historic Box Office

Michie · Jan 31, 2026

The legacy media must be devastated. Melania just had a huge box-office opening for a documentary, despite all the efforts to destroy the film before its release.

Deadline reports that Melania will finish the weekend in third place, with an $8 million opening.

Coming in at third is Amazon MGM Studios’ Brett Ratner-directed documentary Melania, which is eyeing $2.85M today (no previews) for an $8M opening in third place — that result would mark the best start for a docu in the last decade (beating Angel Studios’ 2023 doc After Death, which opened to $5M and finaled at $11.5M stateside). I’m hearing sales are gaining, with Florida and Texas quite large, for the First Lady’s big-screen debut.

According to Deadline, "EntTelligence showed Melania presales overindexing in rural areas with populations under 500,000." The outlet noted that while "license fees plus marketing on this pic equals $75M.”

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‘Melania’ Movie Humiliates Critics and Media Naysayers with Historic Box Office

Melania movie defies critics with historic box office success, earning $8 million in its opening.

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Michie · Feb 1, 2026

SNL attacks Melania's movie as MAGA diehards defend her

Colin Jost and Michael Che did not hold back as they flamed Melania Trump and her recently debuted film, Melania, during Saturday night's Weekend Update segment.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Michie · Feb 1, 2026

Hollywood reeling as Melania smashes box office numbers

The movie earned $7million in ticket sales across the US and Canada, making it the best-performing theatrical release for a documentary, outside of concert films, since 2012.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Michie · Monday at 1:00 PM

Cynthia Nixon lookalike filmed defacing Melania movie poster in LA

The brazen woman with a blonde pixie cut wearing blue jeans and a white blouse was filmed drawing a toothbrush mustache on the black-and-white photo of the First Lady.

www.dailymail.co.uk

RileyG · Monday at 7:36 PM

Good for her! To be honest, I’m not really interested in watching it, but at least it did well.

JSRG · Monday at 11:46 PM

RileyG said:
Good for her! To be honest, I’m not really interested in watching it, but at least it did well.

For a biography documentary, the numbers are pretty good. The problem is that a movie's box office numbers don't occur in the abstract; they need to be weighed in regards to the money that was put into a movie. The original Paranormal Activity's box office of $194 million was jaw dropping because the production budget of it was less than $1 million. Justice League made more than three times that at the box office but was considred a disappointment, because so much more money was put into the movie (budget was $300 million).

This film made $7 million on opening weekend. Generally, a film's opening weekend will be about 1/3 what its final number at the box office is--there are definitely exceptions, but that's about where it usually is. So we could expect a final box office of about $21 million. For these kinds of documentaries, that's a pretty decent number, again. The problem is this film apparently had a budget of $40 million (which isn't counting advertising), which is really high for this kind of movie. So financially, at least, it seems a major bomb.

RileyG · Monday at 11:48 PM

JSRG said:
For a biography documentary, the numbers are pretty good. The problem is that a movie's box office numbers don't occur in the abstract; they need to be weighed in regards to the money that was put into a movie. The original Paranormal Activity's box office of $194 million was jaw dropping because the production budget of it was less than $1 million. Justice League made more than three times that at the box office but was considred a disappointment, because so much more money was put into the movie (budget was $300 million).

This film made $7 million on opening weekend. Generally, a film's opening weekend will be about 1/3 what its final number at the box office is--there are definitely exceptions, but that's about where it usually is. So we could expect a final box office of about $21 million. For these kinds of documentaries, that's a pretty decent number, again. The problem is this film apparently had a budget of $40 million (which isn't counting advertising), which is really high for this kind of movie. So financially, at least, it seems a major bomb.

Interesting

Michie · Tuesday at 11:58 AM

4 highlights from 'Melania' documentary about the first lady and her family

Melania, the new documentary about first lady Melania Trump, debuted in theaters on Friday and explores relationships with her family members and how she navigates the pressures of living in the

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Danthemailman · Wednesday at 4:26 PM

Michie said:
SNL attacks Melania's movie as MAGA diehards defend her

Colin Jost and Michael Che did not hold back as they flamed Melania Trump and her recently debuted film, Melania, during Saturday night's Weekend Update segment.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I miss the days when SNL was actually funny and worth watching.

Michie · Thursday at 11:05 AM

Jimmy Kimmel shares conspiracy theory about hy Melania ticket sales

Kimmel, 58, floated the idea during his monologue on Wednesday. The movie's debut has been surprisingly successful, but the comedian cast doubt over the authenticity of the ticket sales figures.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Danthemailman · Thursday at 12:03 PM

Michie said:
Jimmy Kimmel shares conspiracy theory about hy Melania ticket sales

Kimmel, 58, floated the idea during his monologue on Wednesday. The movie's debut has been surprisingly successful, but the comedian cast doubt over the authenticity of the ticket sales figures.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Many people from both sides of the political spectrum have their doubts at times (especially these days) about estimates and statistics. Speaking of Jimmy Kimmel. I typically watch the 10 O'clock news at night just before I turn off the TV and go to sleep right when Jimmy Kimmel is coming on. Now on multiple occasions, I have briefly watched his show to see if he could get through just one night without bashing Trump but so far he is batting 1,000.

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