Amazon (AMZN, Financial) recently announced that it has licensed a documentry on Melania Trump that provides a behind-the-scenes look at the former first lady. The shooting started in December of 2024 and the film is expected to be released in the second half of 2025. This project is scheduled for the theatrical release and is also set to be released on the streaming service. Amazon showed interest to present such story to viewers around the world but details regarding the project will be revealed as filming progresses.
This announcement comes after Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, was said to have deepened his relationship with President-elect Donald Trump. Although they have had some differences, including a lawsuit in 2019 over a cloud computing contract for the Pentagon, Bezos met with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club and contributed $1 million to the campaign for Trump’s inaugural fund. The documentary deal has attracted public attention, especially after the issue involving The Washington Post, which Bezos owns. There are also concerns on the move to stop publishing satirical cartoons of Trump and some tech billionaires, like Bezos, that caused some employees’ resignations and cancellations of digital subscriptions.
Such developments have raised debates of political influence and its implications to the Amazon’s broader media ventures.
This article first appeared on GuruFocus.
