Overview
- ABC and CBS have declined to air ads for 'The Apprentice' during presidential and vice-presidential debate nights.
- The film, directed by Ali Abbasi, explores Donald Trump's early life and rise in 1970s New York.
- Briarcliff Entertainment, the film's distributor, criticized the networks' decision as 'timidity and cowardice.'
- Despite Trump's legal efforts to block the film, 'The Apprentice' is set for a nationwide theatrical release on October 11.
- The biopic stars Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump, Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn, and Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump.