Melania (film)

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Melania
Directed by Brett Ratner
Produced byBrett Ratner
Starring Melania Trump
Production
companies
Distributed byAmazon MGM Studios
Release date
  • January 30, 2026 (2026-01-30)(United States)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$40 million

Melania is an upcoming American political documentary film directed and produced by Brett Ratner. It documents Melania Trump, the first lady of the United States, in the twenty days before her husband Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration.

The film is set to premiere at the Kennedy Center and will be released in theaters by Amazon MGM Studios on January 30, 2026. [1]

Development

In January 2025, Amazon MGM Studios announced that Brett Ratner will direct a documentary film about Melania Trump, the first lady of the United States. [2] Disney and Paramount Pictures bid for streaming rights to the film, as reported by Matthew Belloni of Puck News , but Amazon outbid both and agreed to pay $40 million to license the film and produce a follow-up docuseries on the first lady. [3] Filming for the documentary began in December 2024, following the U.S. presidential election, with Trump serving as executive producer alongside Fernando Sulichin. [2] [4]

Melania will mark Ratner's first film since numerous women accused him of sexual misconduct in 2017. [5] In December 2025, a month before the documentary was set to be released, Ratner was confirmed by People to have been among those named in Virginia Giuffre's lawsuit as being among the men who she was obliged to have sex with when she was a part of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking ring, with an Epstein Files photo revealing Ratner posing shirtless with Epstein associate Jean-Luc Brunel. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Mia Galuppo (December 22, 2025). "'Melania' Doc to Premiere at The Kennedy Center". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 24, 2025.
  2. 1 2 Weprin, Alex; Couch, Aaron (January 5, 2025). "Brett Ratner to Direct Melania Trump Documentary for Amazon". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved December 18, 2025.
  3. ↑ Belloni, Matthew (January 7, 2025). "Melania Trump Documentary Scores Massive Amazon Payday". Puck News . Archived from the original on January 8, 2025. Retrieved December 18, 2025.
  4. ↑ Baio, Ariana (January 7, 2025). "Amazon is paying $40 million to license Melania Trump film directed by Brett Ratner". The Independent . Retrieved December 18, 2025.
  5. ↑ Smith, Ben (January 5, 2025). "Director Brett Ratner, marginalized after '#MeToo' allegations, will direct Melania Trump documentary". Semafor . Archived from the original on August 26, 2025. Retrieved December 18, 2025.
  6. ↑ Brunner, Raven (December 21, 2025). "Brett Ratner, Director of Upcoming Melania Trump Documentary, Seen in Photo Released from Epstein Files". People. Retrieved December 22, 2025.
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