The Daily Beast reports:
The billionaire former owner of the Washington Commanders is blocking the release of a biopic of Donald Trump which portrays the former president as a rapist. Dan Snyder, once described as the NFL’s worst franchise owner, might be able to stop The Apprentice hitting screens thanks to a bizarre twist: He helped finance the movie.
He has a financial stake in his son-in-law Mark Rapaport’s production company, Kinematics, which was the main financier of the film, essentially giving the billionaire veto power over a stateside distribution deal.
Now he is doing exactly that: preventing the film’s production company from cutting a deal with Briarcliff, an independent distributor which has previously run films such as Fahrenheit 9/11 and Spotlight.
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SCOOP — Dan Snyder, the billionaire fmr Washington NFL owner, has gone rogue in an apparent effort to curry favor with Donald Trump, per three Trumpworld sources who told @thedailybeast his efforts to block THE APPRENTICE biopic are not in coordination w/ the campaign (1/2) pic.twitter.com/3psVVq2nRD
— Jake Lahut (@JakeLahut) June 19, 2024
SCOOP — Dan Snyder, the billionaire fmr Washington NFL owner, has gone rogue in an apparent effort to curry favor with Donald Trump, per three Trumpworld sources who told @thedailybeast his efforts to block THE APPRENTICE biopic are not in coordination w/ the campaign (1/2) pic.twitter.com/3psVVq2nRD
— Jake Lahut (@JakeLahut) June 19, 2024