Trump Pushing Paramount to Revive Melania Doc Director’s Buddy Cop Comedy Franchise

David Gilmour Nov 24th, 2025, 7:43 am

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President Donald Trump personally urged Paramount’s owner Larry Ellison to bring back , the buddy-cop martial arts franchise fronted by Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker , according to new reports.

Ellison, a key political ally and major financial backer, is now a large shareholder at Paramount and inching toward a takeover of Warner’s storied catalogue. That gives the president, for the first time, a foothold in Hollywood’s creative machinery and leaves open the opportunity to revive the style of comedies and blackbusters common in the 1980s and 1990s.

First on the president’s list i

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