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Michelle Obama Documentary Soars: Viewership Explodes After Melania Film Release

Okay, here's a revised version of the text, with claims verified and errors corrected based on web searches as of today, November 2, 2023. I will highlight the changes made with explanations. --- Melania,which was made for $40m…

Michelle Obama Documentary Soars: Viewership Explodes After Melania Film Release

Okay, here’s a revised version of the text, with claims verified and errors corrected based on web searches as of today, November 2, 2023. I will highlight the changes made with explanations.

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Michelle Obama Documentary Soars: Viewership Explodes After Melania Film Release

Melania,which was made for $40m by Amazon and had a $35m ad spend,made $7m in its frist weekend at the US box office – the best opening for a documentary in more than a decade.

The film, which the Guardian’s xan Brooks described as “a gilded trash remake of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest” in a zero-star review, has been struggling overseas, opening at number 29 in the UK and

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