WASHINGTON — Melania Trump announced Friday that she has created her own production company, Muse Films, ahead of the release by Amazon of a documentary on the first lady.
“PRESENTING: MUSE FILMS My new production company. MELANIA, the film, exclusively in theaters worldwide on January 30th, 2026,” she tweeted.
Amazon paid $40 million to license the film. It was not immediately clear if Muse Films will be licensing the same biographical movie to other companies.
Melania Trump accepts the White House Christmas Tree on November 24, 2025. Joey Sussman/ZUMA Press Wire / SplashNews.com
The first lady’s office did not reply to a request for additional information.
Unlike her omnipresent and outspoken husband, Melania Trump, 55, is protective of her privacy, increasing interest in the documentary.
She rarely grants interviews and for much of her time in the White House has avoided the limelight.
During President Trump’s first term, her major initiative was the “Be Best” anti-bullying campaign, but she has increased her role lately as an important political adviser and American humanitarian representative.
In her most stunning recent remarks, the first lady convened the White House press corps for an unspecified announcement in the executive mansion’s foyer on Oct. 10.
There, she broke the news that her office established an “open channel” with Russian President Vladimir Putin to reunify children separated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with initial transfers accomplished and more in progress.
Melania and Donald Trump at the White House on Nov. 25, 2025. AFP via Getty Images
She then organized a Nov. 13 executive order to increase the government’s role in facilitating life after foster care, including to guide their education and career opportunities.
The first lady subsequently turned heads on Nov. 28 warning at Camp Lejeune that artificial intelligence “will alter war more profoundly than any technology since nuclear weapons.”
She authored a memoir, called “Melania,” that was published in October 2024, where she shared a pro-choice stance on abortion, ahead of her husband’s successful reelection.
“A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes,” she wrote.
The Slovenia-born former model in August threatened to sue former first son Hunter Biden for his “false, disparaging, defamatory and inflammatory” claim that the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to the future president.
The first lady’s son Barron, 19, moved into the White House this year to continue his studies at New York University’s satellite campus in DC.
Melania Trump announced her new film with MUSE FILMS. X / @MELANIATRUMP
She has continued to perform her ceremonial duties, including accepting the annual White House Christmas tree Monday, declaring in front of the horse-drawn carriage that “it will be beautiful — we are going to plan, and it’s starting today!”
Often public perception of the first lady has been shaped by her detractors, including backstabbing former friends such as Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who in 2020 leaked a recording of Melania griping about holiday decorating.
“I’m working … my ass off on the Christmas stuff, that you know, who gives a f–k about the Christmas stuff and decorations? But I need to do it, right?” she said.
Another former confidante, Stephanie Grisham, who briefly served as White House press secretary, publicized a text message from the then-first lady saying that “no” she didn’t want to put out a statement denouncing violence during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.