Business journalist La Times Samantha Masunaga reported on the return of President Donald Trump to power, prompted a gloomy change in paradigm in Hollywood.
In a piece of title, “will Trump have a cold effect on Hollywood? Insiders say that is already happening,” ” Masuna wrote These two films show how times have changed. The writer compared the recent documentary about First Lady Melania Trump, who produced, with Trump’s critical biopia, a “trainee”. The documentary will be released by Amazon Prime Video, while the “Apprentice” allegedly fought for distribution.
“Contrast fate shows a muffler mood in the liberal Hollywood,” said La Times writer. “There is a general sense of discomfort among industry insiders about what follows, the speed at which Trump has brought pure executive commands throughout the federal government-and seemingly purchasing of corporate leaders and so that all this can affect future creative content.”
One of the reasons why “trainee” may have fought to find a distributor is that Trump’s campaign threatened with a lawsuit in 2024 Through the “sharp false statements of these pretending filmmakers.”
The elected President Donald Trump points to American on Sunday, December 2, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
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“There was definitely suppressing the movie after our Cannes premiere,” said Amy Baer, one of the film producer for La Times. “Enough to cool any potential interest we had.”
She added that, although some distributors immediately refused, others were “politely stepped down”.
While the movie eventually picked up Briarcliff Entertainment, the movie only had a few weeks to arrange its theater edition and ads for advertisements before the 2024 election.
Masunaga recalled that Amazon allegedly paid $ 40 million for a documentary license to Melania Trump, and that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos refused to approve the candidate in the 2024 elections.
“The observers saw two actions as connected, an attempt to break through with a new administration, and one contrary to the fact that the entertainment industry set public resistance against the first Trump Presidency,” Masunaga suggested.
Tom Nunan, a teammate of a graduate producers at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, he told LA headquartered at LA news This Hollywood still feels from Trump’s return to power.
The helicopter performs a drop of water because smoke and flames rise from the fire of sunset in the hills overlooking the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on January 8, 2025. (Reuters/David Swanson)
“I don’t think people still understand what else to do, how to express themselves or what will be most effective,” he said. “It’s hard to be creative when you’re afraid.”
Nunan further claimed that Trump was a “turning point” or “multiplier of force” for special liberal people in the industry who had already fought with the current slowdown of Hollywood in production.
“Only a sense of defeat was pervading this place,” he told La Times. “And it’s really unhappy.”
Steve Caplan, a major strategist in a communication message with headquarters in Los Angeles, claimed that Recent fires in la -u They made a Hollywood in Hollywood.
“Currently, with crisis and fires, a little fatigue and certainly a little shock of a speed shell that Trump’s administration has dropped some of their proposals,” he told the local news. “But people will deal with supplies as the middle and racing of the governor are approaching.”
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Nevertheless, the entertainment industry is currently going into a “difficult environment,” he said.
“If you look at the direction of things and strategic decisions that make brands of all kinds, a company of all kinds, it would indicate that it is a very difficult environment to end these things,” he told La Times. “We will see if they are creative and the contents are part of it, but the early indications are that it will be a challenge.”
