A small independent movie theater in Lake Oswego, OR, a Portland suburb, was planning to show the movie Melania. But Amazon called and pulled the movie, apparently because they were upset with how the theater had chosen to advertise the movie on their marquee.
According to the Lake Oswego Review, the Lake Theater & Café marquee had initially stated
“DOES MELANIA WEAR PRADA? FIND OUT FRIDAY!”
and
“TO DEFEAT YOUR ENEMY. YOU MUST KNOW THEM. MELANIA.”
After being informed that Amazon was pulling the movie, the marquee was changed to
AMAZON CALLED
OUR MARQUEE MADE THEM MAD
ALL MELANIA SHOWS CANCELED
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT AT WHOLE FOODS INSTEAD 🙁
So why was an independent progressive theater showing the movie in the first place? According to General Manager Jordan Perry,
Financially, the film marketplace this week and next were a desert… So, to fill a screen, why not get this inexplicable vanity piece from the current president’s wife? I mean, it just seems so weird that it even exists (who wants a movie about Melania lol?), and wouldn’t it then be exponentially weirder, to the point of being funny, to show it here, at your obviously anti-establishment, occasionally troublemaking, neighborhood cinema?
So, maybe Jeff Bezos doesn’t have a sense of humor after all?