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Sebastian Stan will be playing Donald Trump in a new movie. The film, directed by award winning Ali Abbasi, is called “The Apprentice” and appears to be based on Trump’s life and the formation of his real estate empire.Melania Trump’s outfit draws attention at Rosalynn Carter’s funeralMelania and Donald Trump attended Halloween party at Mar-a-LagoBarron Trump: All you should know about Trump’s youngest son“The Apprentice” will feature a young Donald Trump, and will costar Maria Bakalova and Jeremy Strong.

Deadline reports. “‘The Apprentice’ is an exploration of power and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit,” the film’s description reads. “It’s a mentor-protégé story that charts the origins of an American dynasty.“Filled with larger-than-life characters, it reveals the moral and human cost of a culture defined by winners and losers.”Aside from that vague description, not much else is known about the film.

How’s this for intriguing? Deadline reports that Sebastian Stan will star as a young Donald Trump in “The Apprentice,” Ali Abbasi‘s feature follow-up to last year’s “Holy Spider.” And Stan isn’t the only big name to sign on to Abbasi’s new movie: “Succession” star Jeremy Strong is also on board to play attorney Roy Cohn, while Maria Bakalova will play Trump’s first wife, Ivanka.

Donald Trump in an upcoming film titled The Apprentice.According to a Deadline Hollywood report, Stan will star alongside Succession star Jeremy Strong and Maria Bakalova in the film. Strong will play infamous attorney Roy Cohn while Bakalova plays a young version of Trump’s first wife, Ivana.The Apprentice – which supposedly began production this week according to Deadline Hollywood – is being led by Cannes prize-winning Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi, best known for his film Holy Spider.

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s one you probably didn’t see coming: Sebastian Stan, the Emmy and Golden Globe nominee known for his work in the MCU and the acclaimed Hulu miniseries Pam & Tommy, has been tapped for the role of a young Donald Trump in The Apprentice, a new film from Cannes prize-winning Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi (Holy Spider).

Sebastian Stan has landed another role where he will portray a real life public figure!

Jordan Moreau Sebastian Stan is playing young Donald Trump in a movie titled “The Student” from Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi (“Holy Spider”), Variety can confirm. The cast also includes “Succession” Emmy winner Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and “Borat 2” and “Bodies Bodies Bodies” actor Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump. According to the logline, “‘The Student’ is an exploration of power and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit.

Melania Trump,Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, and more were amongst the guests at Rosalynn Carter’s memorial service. Carter died on November 19th, at 96 years old.

Need further proof Ivanka Trump has totally disowned her dad amidst his many controversies and legal problems? How about the fact the once close (too close) father-daughter duo didn’t even spend Thanksgiving together??

Liz Cheney‘s new book is a scathing portrait of Republican “enablers and collaborators” who are responsible for the continued hold that Donald Trump has on the party, CNN reported on Tuesday.

Whoopi Goldberg slammed critics of Dolly Parton’s skimpy Dallas Cowboys cheerleading uniform after the music icon performed at the Thanksgiving Day football game between the Cowboys and the Washington Commanders.“Apparently, my turkey wasn’t the only subject online that people were hating,” Goldberg, 68, said during the “Hot Topics” portion of “The View” on Monday.“77-year-old superstar Dolly Parton stole the show on Thanksgiving at the Cowboys-Commanders game dressed as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, but some critics told her to act her age,” Goldberg continued to tremendous applause from the studio audience. “Bite me,” she added. “Everybody that participated in this, you should be ashamed of yourself.”Cohost Sunny Hostin agreed with Goldberg.

Univision anchor Jorge Ramos doesn’t like the way his network handled an interview with former President Donad Trump.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Jorge Ramos, the Univision star anchor who has become as defined by his clashes with the Trump administration as he has by his coverage of major world events, has become the latest of the Spanish-language network’s top anchors to take issue with an interview broadcast by the news division earlier this month with the former President. The November 9 interview with Trump, Ramos said in the newest edition of his weekly column, “put in doubt the independence of our news department, and created discomfort and uncertainty within the newsroom.” Univision has for years burnished a reputation for holding top U.S. politicians to account — Trump particularly, following remarks made at the beginning of his campaign for the 2016 election in which he said immigrants from Mexico were drug dealers, criminals and rapists.

The CEO of TelevisionUnivision defended the network’s recent interview with Donald Trump, amid criticism from Democratic lawmakers and others that the influential Hispanic outlet was giving a softball platform for the former president.

pride in his wife.The comedian is publicly defending his wife of 10 years, Nia Renée Hill, after she was caught flipping off former president Donald Trump at the Ultimate Fighting Championship 295 match.“I love my wife,” Burr, 55, remarked of the incident on the Rich Eisen Show. “You know where you stand with her.”Trump, said to be a big fan of the American mixed martial arts competition, entered Madison Square Garden in New York City Saturday night alongside UFC president Dana White, Tucker Carlson, Kid Rock and son Don Jr.As the crowd cheered, Trump approached his ringside seat in front of Burr and Hill for the featherweight fight between Diego Lopes and Pat Sabatini.Actress, writer and producer Hill, 54, can be seen on the arena cameras, dressed in a black shirt and jeans, raising both middle fingers in the air.The video of Hill giving Trump the double bird quickly appeared on social media, sparking commentators to bash the “Old Dads” star.“So trashy.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor If movie and TV studios get nervous about advertising, so should everyone else. Advertisers loathe controversy, and often “pull” or “yank” their commercials from individual pieces of content that generate it.

A Fox Corp. shareholder got a bit of a brushoff when he asked if or how the company was doing anything structurally to protect itself against legal liability around the 2020 election and if and how executive pay policies may have been tweaked to to reflect ongoing legal peril.

Kid Rock has claimed that both he and Donald Trump confronted Anheuser-Busch’s CEO over their Bud-Light partnership with a trans activist.While appearing as a guest on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, the singer claimed that during his appearance alongside Trump at UFC 295 on November 11, the two confronted Anheuser-Busch’s CEO Brendan Ball Whitworth in regards to the company’s partnership with trans activist and influencer Dylan Mulvaney, who is a Bud Light brand influencer.“So [Trump and I] go over, and we actually had a great conversation [with Whitworth].I told him, ‘You signaled to a lot of people like myself … by sending that can to the trans kid, you kind of signaled to us that you support that lifestyle, and more importantly, men being in women’s sports or in my granddaughter’s locker room. Most of us draw a hard line right there,'” Rock said.He continued by saying that he never called fans to “boycott or cancel” the brand.

A top anchor at Univision has departed amid reports that the media outlet has shifted to a much more favorable way of covering Donald Trump.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor León Krauze, one of the most prominent anchors at Univision‘s news division, has left the network in the wake of a controversial interview with former President Donald Trump that took place last week and has spurred concerns among journalists at the company that the Spanish-language media giant is no longer challenging Republican politicians. Krauze, who spent a significant chunk of his career anchoring Univision’s KMEX weeknight news program, became co-anchor of the the company’s national late-night news program “Noticiero Univision Edición Nocturna” in January of 2022.