Amazon reportedly paid an estimated $40 million to acquire "Melania" and spent an additional $35 million on marketing.

Amazon is somehow celebrating Melania‘s opening box office numbers as a success, even though the movie is still down nearly $68 million. Melania earned roughly $7 million on opening weekend, a feat for the documentary genre,

Amazon's Melania Trump documentary overperformed at the box office, but Amazon has a long way to go before breaking even.

"Melania" documentary expected to earn upwards of $8 million in its opening weekend to finish third behind "Iron Lung and "Send Help."

Melania, Amazon MGM’s documentary about Melania Trump, is billed as a behind-the-scenes look at the once-and-future first lady in the 20 days leading up to the inauguration last year. While much has been written about what Melania is,

Rogal gave a lot of love to Gershberg for finding those gems for the players. “He killed himself to find some of this stuff and he would go above and beyond to make sure that we found clips with parents,