LA Times business journalist Samantha Masunaga reported that President Donald Trump's return power has triggered a grim paradigm in Hollywood.
Masunaga wrote: "Will Trump have a chilling impact on Hollywood? The author draws her documentary with the first lady Melania Trump and Trump's critical biography The film "Apprentice" is compared. The documentary will be released by Amazon Prime video, and the "Apprentice" has been reportedly working to obtain a distribution agreement.
"The fate of contrast shows that Hollywood liberals are more gentle." "The industry insiders have a general uneasiness about what is going to happen, with Trump issuing executive orders across the federal government and corporate leadership," the Los Angeles Times writer believes. The seemingly buying speed of people – and all this will affect creative content in the future.”
One of the reasons why "apprentices" may have struggled to find distributors is because the Trump campaign threatens a 2024 lawsuit against "these blatant false assertions of pretending filmmakers."
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"After our Cannes premiere, we'll definitely be involved in the film," Amy Baer, one of the film producers, told the Los Angeles Times. "Enough to calm down any potential interest we've generated."
She added that while some distributors refused immediately, others "went politely away."
Although the film was eventually picked up by Briarcliff Entertainment, the film only had a few weeks to schedule drama releases and advertising campaigns ahead of the 2024 election.
Masunaga reportedly recalled how Amazon paid $40 million to license Melania Trump's documentary, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos refused Let the Washington Post recognize the candidate in the 2024 election.
"Observers think the two actions are linked, and it's support for the new administration, which is very inconsistent with how the entertainment industry resists the first Trump president's public resistance."
Tom Nunan, co-director of the graduate producer program at the UCLA School of Drama, told Los Angeles-based news outlets that Hollywood is still retreating from Trump’s return to power.
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“I don’t think people really don’t figure out what to do, how to express themselves or what works most,” he said. “It’s hard to be creative when you’re scared.”
Nunan further argued that Trump has been a "cutting point" or "power multiplier" for particularly liberals in an industry that is already struggling with slowing production in Hollywood.
"This feeling of failure is everywhere in this place," he told the Los Angeles Times. "It's really unfortunate."
Steve Caplan, chief strategist for the Los Angeles-based communications company, believes that the recent fires in Los Angeles have also worsened the mood in Hollywood.
"Now with the crisis and fire, the Trump administration has launched some proposals at a speed, a little fatigue, and of course a little shell shock," he told local news media. "But, as the race of the governor is getting closer in the middle and closer to the governor's race in the middle. , people will take stocks."
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He said that despite this, the entertainment industry is currently browsing “hard environments.”
"If you look at the direction of the direction and the strategic decisions of various brands, various companies, it will show that it is a very difficult environment to accomplish these things," he told the Los Angeles Times. “We’re going to see if creativity and content are part of it, but early signs suggest it will be a challenge.”