The former president's legal team slapped the movie with a cease and desist letter shortly after its Cannes world premiere but has seemingly remained quiet about the film before its U.S. release date,

At the New York premiere of Donald Trump drama "The Apprentice," the film's director Ali Abbasi says he'd love to sit down and watch the movie with the former U.S. president. (Oct. 9)

It makes a weird kind of sense that “The Apprentice” is arriving in theaters Friday, a week after “Joker: Folie à Deux.” Both movies are set in New York in the 1970s and/or ’80s. Both are about larger-than-life antiheroes perceived as monsters by many and lionized by others.