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Posted on 05/03/2025 6:11:30 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Jon Voight has been taking meetings around town with union reps and studio executives to understand the issues plaguing domestic production, Deadline has confirmed...
We understand that Trump’s other two ambassador picks, Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson, are not involved in Voight’s conversations...
The exact plan that Coming Home Oscar winner Voight, whose daughter is Angelina Jolie, has prepared for Trump is unclear, but sources with knowledge of his conversations with Hollywood insiders tell us they expect a federal tax incentive to be the main component.
As the lack of production in L.A. displays, the U.S. film and television industry has suffered greatly from a growing number of runaway productions over the years. International territories including the UK, Canada and Hungary have significantly beefed up their own financial incentives, tax credits and infrastructure during the past decade. Stateside, while individual states from the heavy hitters of New York and Georgia to smaller jurisdictions like New Mexico have done what they can to bolster their own local industries, union representatives have been raising the idea of a federal tax break to further incentivize domestic production for some time.
...Sources have pointed out that any major funding initiative using taxpayer dollars would contradict the administration’s rhetoric on trimming the fat from the federal budget and bringing down the national debt.
However, bolstering domestic film and television production is in line with Trump’s agenda to bring jobs back from overseas, more generally. In his Truth Social decree in January, Trump said he was appointing Voight, Stallone and Gibson with “the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK—BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!”
(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...
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Let Newsom deal with it
Hollywood is like Universities ... why should tax payers be on the hook to support them?
Yea I think that the 4th largest economy in the world should be able to handle this problem without getting the other 49 states involved...
He’s 86 years old. Time to plan for that funeral.
Your thoughts?
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/
Hollyweird’s high water mark was 2018, with $11,892,160,011 in domestic box office.
After the pandemic drop, it hasn’t fully recovered. Domestic box office last year was $8,570,012,657.
Maybe calling your customers racists, Nazis, misogynists, and every other name in the book was a Bad Idea.
I’m older than that. My MD says I’ll live to br 100, healthiest person my age he’s ever seen.
This creep can goto hell tomorrow for all I care.
What a stupid headline.
But you can have my answer now. I couldn’t care less about Hollywood, and President Trump has more important things to worry about.
I love Jon Voight, but he should have insisted that they spell his name right on the car registration.
Attempting to give a hairless rat’s patoot ... attempting ...
Unable to give a patoot
lol - that episode was priceless just to see ol Jerry in cowboy boots :)
Nope.
It can crash and burn.
Hollywood has had its heyday and outlived its usefulness.
If Hollywood cannot sustain itself financially, it’s time to close up shop.
As with ANY business. There should be no government subsidies.
I certainly don’t care
And trash movies
Spring Harvey Weinstein out of prison and put him back at the helm of Miramax.
He might've been a lecherous skeevy Jew but when he was running things, we had hot actresses and great films!
Now we've got a bunch of Longhouse Karens running the studios. All of the actresses are fugly gendergoblins and all of the movies are unwatchable woke struggle sessions.
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