Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment If Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos are known for anything, it's their ability to take a joke. Which is why it's so surprising that Amazon would pull Melania from a movie theater after some gentle mocking about the film appeared on its marquee. As first reported by The Oregonian, and then nationally spotted by The Daily Beast, an Oregon theater long known for finding creatively witty ways to advertise its movies was asked by Amazon to stop screening Melania. The Lake Theater and Cafe in Lake Oswego had touted last week's release of Amazon MGM's controversial documentary with declarations such as "Does Melania wear Prada? Find out Friday" and - quoting Sun Tzu's The Art of War - "To defeat your enemy, you must know them. Melania starts Friday." Related Stories Movies How Is 'Melania' Playing in Minneapolis? Let's Crunch the Numbers Movies Box Office: 'Melania' Bests Jason Statham's 'Shelter' to Place No. 3 With $7M, 'Send Help' Soars to $20M Win Then manager Jordan Perry says their booker received a call from somebody at Amazon asking the theater to pull the film. "The studio was not happy and/or did not appreciate my take on marketing their film to our own public," Perry told The Oregonian. The theater marquee was then changed to: "Amazon called. Our marquee made them mad. All Melania showings cancelled. Show your support at Whole Foods instead." This was followed by "Join Amazon Prime for Free Two-Day Shipping." (Amazon had no immediate comment on the matter). View this post on Instagram The theater's management noted on Instagram that they also received plenty of backlash from local moviegoers long before the film was pulled. Many were upset their quirky Portland suburb cinema was screening Melania in the first place. "Before then, we got countless emails and voicemails and Google / Yelp reviews (Google / Yelp took them down) wondering why the hell we had Melania here, or disdaining our disparaging of her," the Instagram statement read. "Now that it's prematurely over, the plug pulled on us not from public outcry (always listening, thank you) but by some corporate executive (fair enough, sorry AMZN, please don't cancel my Prime)." Perry noted that his theater sold a whopping $196 worth of tickets for the film during its single weekend (the film has done quite well nationally - the best showing in a decade for a documentary, despite scathing critic reviews). Perry further explained he booked Melania for a simple - and pretty amusing - reason: Given how left-leaning the area is, he thought screening Melania would be funny (plus, he notes, it was a pretty dead time for new movies anyway). "Wouldn't it be exponentially weirder, to the point of being funny, to show [Melania] here, at your obviously anti-establishment, occasionally troublemaking, neighborhood cinema?" he wondered. And it might have been - had anybody on either side had a sense of humor about it. THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day Subscribe Sign Up Heat Vision Chiwetel Ejiofor Joins Scarlett Johansson in New 'Exorcist' Horror Movie for Blumhouse, Universal International Film Festival Rotterdam Rotterdam Unveils IFFR Pro Awards, Including for 'The Poet's Son,' 'LFD Hope,' 'Marina' Oscars 2026 Why 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Was Oscar-Nominated for Costumes That Don't Technically Exist united kingdom Matthew Macfadyen Joins Rachel Weisz in Tomas Alfredson's 'Seance on a Wet Afternoon' Iran 'Wolfgang' at Rotterdam: Iranian Filmmaker on Their Audiovisual Acid Trip Opera Celebrating Mozart and "Silliness," and Resistance From Exile international 'London' Goes on the Road (or Does It?!) With a Man Who Encounters Strangers, Courtesy of a Car-Sharing Service (Exclusive Berlin Trailer) Heat Vision Chiwetel Ejiofor Joins Scarlett Johansson in New 'Exorcist' Horror Movie for Blumhouse, Universal International Film Festival Rotterdam Rotterdam Unveils IFFR Pro Awards, Including for 'The Poet's Son,' 'LFD Hope,' 'Marina' Oscars 2026 Why 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Was Oscar-Nominated for Costumes That Don't Technically Exist united kingdom Matthew Macfadyen Joins Rachel Weisz in Tomas Alfredson's 'Seance on a Wet Afternoon' Iran 'Wolfgang' at Rotterdam: Iranian Filmmaker on Their Audiovisual Acid Trip Opera Celebrating Mozart and "Silliness," and Resistance From Exile international 'London' Goes on the Road (or Does It?!) With a Man Who Encounters Strangers, Courtesy of a Car-Sharing Service (Exclusive Berlin Trailer)