{"id":566699,"date":"2026-02-04T22:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/566699\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T22:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:59:15","slug":"amazon-pulls-melania-from-oregon-movie-theater-after-marquee-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/566699\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Pulls &#8216;Melania&#8217; From Oregon Movie Theater After Marquee Jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Lake Theater &amp; Caf\u00e9 in the Portland suburb of Lake Oswego, Ore. will no longer screen \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/melania\/\" id=\"auto-tag_melania\" data-tag=\"melania\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melania<\/a>,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/amazon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_amazon\" data-tag=\"amazon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> Studios documentary about first lady Melania Trump, after Amazon pulled the film from its screens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe move was in response to the theater\u2019s marquee messages promoting the film, including \u201cDoes Melania wear Prada? Find out Friday!\u201d and \u2014 quoting Sun Tzu \u2014 \u201cTo defeat your enemy. You must know them. Melania.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDirected by Brett Ratner, \u201cMelania\u201d chronicles the 20 days leading up to President Donald Trump\u2019s second inauguration. Amazon purchased the rights to produce and distribute the film for $40 million in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tManager Jordan Perry said the theater received a call from Amazon asking them to pull the film. \u201cThe studio was not happy and\/or did not appreciate my take on marketing their film to our own public,\u201d Perry told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/entertainment\/2026\/02\/he-made-a-joke-on-his-theaters-marquee-then-amazon-pulled-the-melania-movie.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Oregonian<\/a>.\u00a0A source familiar with the film confirms that the title was indeed pulled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe marquee was subsequently changed to read: \u201cAmazon called. Our marquee made them mad. All \u201cMelania\u201d showings cancelled. Show your support at Whole Foods instead. Join Amazon Prime for Free Two-Day Shipping.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tPerry said the theater had also received emails and messages from local patrons questioning why the film was being shown at all. In a blog post, he explained that booking \u201cMelania\u201d was intended as a humorous choice during a slow movie week, not a political statement. \u201cWouldn\u2019t it be exponentially weirder, to the point of being funny, to show \u201cMelania\u201d here, at your obviously anti-establishment, occasionally troublemaking, neighborhood cinema?\u201d Perry wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAmazon Studios declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lake Theater &amp; Caf\u00e9 in the Portland suburb of Lake Oswego, Ore. will no longer screen \u201cMelania,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":566700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[2431,171,148712,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-566699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-amazon","tag-entertainment","tag-melania","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116014846135365611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}