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‘Terrifier 3’ slashes ‘Joker’ to take No. 1 at the box office, Trump film ‘The Apprentice’ fizzles

Oct. 13, 2024 13:26 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The choices on the movie marquee this weekend included Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker, a film about Donald Trump, a “Saturday Night Live” origin story and even Pharrell Williams as a Lego. In the end, all were trounced by an ax-wielding clown. “Terrifier 3,” a...

The making of 'The Apprentice,' in their words

Oct. 11, 2024 08:19 AM EDT

Few movies this year have made as many headlines as “The Apprentice.” Ali Abbasi's film about a young Donald Trump ( Sebastian Stan ) under the tutelage of cutthroat attorney Roy Cohn ( Jeremy Strong ) has caused a stir at the Cannes Film Festival, been threatened with legal...

Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan on 'The Apprentice': 'We're way out on a limb'

Oct. 10, 2024 14:30 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Even in an election year, most seem to agree on one aspect about Ali Abbasi’s much-debated Donald Trump film “The Apprentice”: Sebastian Stan is a remarkably good Trump and Jeremy Strong is chillingly riveting as the New York power broker Roy Cohn. One...

Movie Review: How did Trump become Trump? ‘The Apprentice’ has a theory

Oct. 09, 2024 10:30 AM EDT

Decades before he hosted “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump was … an apprentice. His mentor: Roy Cohn, the ruthless attorney who was a prominent New York power broker in the ’70s and ’80s after famously serving as a top aide to Sen. Joseph McCarthy. The...

Adam Pearson is ready to roll the dice

Sep. 26, 2024 17:54 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Adam Pearson is an ardent believer in the old adage: Nothing wagered, nothing gained. Before Pearson was an actor, he worked at the BBC out of college. He was hired for six months, but, like much in Pearson’s life, he was determined to make the most of it. ...

Movie Review: Provocative, genre-bending ‘A Different Man’ gets under our skin in unexpected ways

Sep. 19, 2024 17:00 PM EDT

Imagine you could wake up one morning, stand at the mirror, and literally peel off any part of your looks you don’t like — with only movie-star beauty remaining. How would it change your life? How SHOULD it change your life? That's a question – well, a launching...

They made a movie about Trump. Then no one would release it

Sep. 04, 2024 15:19 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Hard as it may be to believe, there aren’t a lot of Hollywood agents clamoring for their star clients to take the role of one of the polarizing political figures of the 21st century. Sebastian Stan, though, was committed to “The Apprentice.” More than...

The 33 most anticipated movies of the fall

Sep. 03, 2024 17:07 PM EDT

The seasonal differences of the movie calendar have eroded a little bit with time. Neither of the last two Oscar juggernauts — “Oppenheimer,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — opened in the fall, the traditional launching pad of Academy Awards hopefuls. And just the...

Trump film 'The Apprentice' finds distributor and will open before the election

Aug. 30, 2024 14:28 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — After struggling to drum up interest following its Cannes Film Festival premiere, “The Apprentice,” starring Sebastian Stan as a young Donald Trump, has found a distributor that plans to release the film shortly before the election in November. Briarcliff...