The Apprentice movie set for release before US presidential election

The director and cast of the movie The Apprentice at the Cannes film festival in France (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP, File)

After struggling to drum up interest following its Cannes Film Festival premiere, The Apprentice, starring Sebastian Stan as a young Donald Trump, has found a distributor that plans to release the film shortly before the election in November.

Briarcliff Entertainment will release The Apprentice on October 11 in US and Canadian theatres, just weeks before Americans cast their ballots on November 5.