This did not prevent the cinema industry around the world from reacting strongly to the dilemma that is coming: no longer being able to show a film in the United States, for cost issues, or produce it entirely in this country. “It looks potentially disastrous for the international film industry,” said a British agent on the specialized website Screen Daily, on condition of anonymity.
“The major productions carried out from A to Z in the United States are rare.”
Donald Trump responds to a popular economic model of American studios and filmmakers: obtaining subsidies or tax exemptions to shoot in countries (such as Hungary, Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, etc.) which, in return, are on the jobs generated and tourist benefits. “The American film industry is dying very quickly. Other countries offer all kinds of incentives to attract our filmmakers and studios away from the United States, “wrote the president.
The new York Times, little suspicious of sympathy for Donald Trump’s ideas, had devoted an investigation to the effects of this relocation in mid-April. She evoked the destruction of the middle class jobs in cinema and television in Los Angeles. “It is nothing less than the future of Hollywood that is at stake,” wrote the daily life to synthesize the comments collected. A trade unionist compared the decline of the sector in California to that of the automobile in Detroit half a century ago. Large manufacturers still have their headquarters there, but the factories have left.
American production brings to life up to 2,000 people
“The major productions carried out from A to Z in the United States are rare,” said a spokesperson for a Canadian film technicians’ union, Evelyne Snow, interviewed by the daily La Presse. She is worried about threatened jobs in the province of Quebec. According to her, “an American production in Montreal brings 2,000 people to life, starting from the cameraman to the limousine driver”.
The obligation to do everything in the United States, under penalty of being barred access to American rooms, risks killing many projects in the egg. The American cultural magazine Variety, which asks “seven questions” on this project, written in one of them: “Who wants that? Not Hollywood. The activity of cinemas is fighting to return to the levels prior to the pandemic. The last thing we need is a new tax. ”
