‘The Apprentice’ Not Being Released in UAE in Apparent Move by Censors to Appease Donald Trump (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comDonald Trump biopic “The Apprentice,” starring Sebastian Stan as the businessman and former U.S. president, is skipping its planned release in cinemas in the United Arab Emirates — and also Kuwait — possibly for political reasons.
Ali Abbasi’s film, which follows Trump’s rise to fame and his time learning from influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn (played by Jeremy Strong), was scheduled to debut in United Arab Emirates cinemas on Oct.
16. But Front Row Filmed Entertainment, “The Apprentice’s” Dubai-based distributor, confirms to Variety that the release has not happened.
The film has also been removed from UAE cinema websites, which were promoting it last week. However, Front Row chief Gianluca Chakra said “The Apprentice” has passed censorship and will be released in Saudi Arabia — where censors have cut the scene in which Trump violently throws his then-wife Ivana, played by Maria Bakalova, to the ground and proceeds to have non-consensual sex with her — and will also be released in Oman, Iraq, Jordan and Egypt.
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