Hello, everyone. This is JVL here with my bulwark colleague, Sunny Bunch, who has just seen the Malanya movie.

Melania. Here we go again.

Fascinating, riveting documentary about a simple girl from Slovakia who came to America, married a man who became president, and fell in love, lived happily ever after.

Guys, this is a wild ride. And Sunny's can actually tell you about the movie itself, which is going to be amazing.

I can't wait. I'll be hearing those thoughts for the first time as well.

But first, we have to talk about Sunny, the business of this movie. Because my sense is this isn't this isn't a movie. It's an open air bribe. Is that unfair?

No. No. Look, my whole thing is you can't understand, you can't, you can't understand what is being made in Hollywood and what is being consumed in Hollywood. If you don't understand

why it's being made, this is always, this is my big theory of writing about film. Like, you have to

understand a little bit of the business side of things. And there is a business, there's a business

case to be made for

the Melania documentary. Conservatives, conservatives go to documentaries, the Dinesh DeSouza

documentaries, for instance, often make five to 15 million dollars at the box office, right? The daily wire

documentaries, the daily wire documentaries often make in the, in the 15 million, and those are, those are big numbers for documentaries.

You know, those are numbers that you don't see a lot of in the real world for just general documentaries.

Now, those are all very cheap.

Those are all very cheap movies.

They're made for very little money.

They don't cost very much.

The thing about Melania is that it is a very

expensive movie. Even it just by the standards of mid-budget filmmaking, it's a fairly pricey endeavor.

We're talking about a $40 million purchase price by Amazon MGM Studios. Just for the rights.

Just for, well, 40% to make it. So 70% of that goes to Melania, it goes directly to Melania Trump. Right. Her production company,

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