How can Trump repair Hollywood?

Hollywood has a problem!

I have lived in Los Angeles and I haven't worked anything for a while. The latest television show on which I was shot in Canada, and the film I optionally optionally will be. Neither is fixed on the page, but tax incentives make it too good to pass.

I have friends who work on television games, they tell me that it is easier to send the whole distribution and crew to London than to book and shoot in the United States, not to mention Los Angeles. (Rob Lowe also talked about it in March.)

And as we have covered, California has lagged behind other states in terms of tax discounts and incentives. Our governor, Gavin Newsom, is trying to update these things. But he only directs California.

If we want to help all films and television across the country, we need some presidential orders and we need it.

We salt jobs abroad and make members of the crew in America intended for their struggle to find work. At the same time, we allow other nations to develop on the hard work of our citizens, which can write films and television programs for our audience, but see them materialize elsewhere.

Prices are not the answer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5moavoqrilo

As I covered myself on Monday, in my opinion, prices are not the answer to the Hollywood problem. They are far too complicated, probaby violates the World Trade Organization rulesAnd only get the costs up.

Even Trump's White House understands this, like They resumed these price suggestions on Monday.

Apparently Jon Voight went around as one of Trump's Hollywood emissaries, and The idea of ​​the prices came from him. Whatever their coming, they fundamentally understand what would save Hollywood at the moment.

This is because people like Voight do not look at the problem like producers.

A large producer knows that adding prices and that something more costs means that no one will do these things. They will not pay, they will stop doing things.

It's not good for anyone.

These prices at a very price would just kill Hollywood, not save us. You might as well throw the drowning man a concrete block.

How can Trump help Hollywood?

Hollywood is drowning. We need a life buoy. It doesn't matter who throws it.

Every producer will tell you that at the end of the day, despite efforts like Stay in Los Angeles and even a great sense of patriotism, he chooses where a film strictly turns on the budget. And right now, shooting films and television in America is extremely expensive.

These expenses can be reduced with decrees creating a kind of universal tax incentive for films that run in America. It could be associated with state incentives to make fire outside the American price.

It would change everything.

At the same time, there may be a way to give changes in tax code and large federal incentives to cause the filming of a film here. If there was a bribes to use something like 75% of American citizens on a set here, especially if it came with a 40% tax incentive, you would see many more films shooting here.

Do it for the next 10 years without a cap, and you will see a boom in production like never before.

There are also things like co -production treaties and infrastructure subsidies that could help facilitate all of these objectives.

Matt Belloni de Puck has an excellent article On how many of it would work. And as he notes, it should be a bipartite subject. Especially when you have people like Democrat Adam Schiff, who has been asking for something like this in Congress for years.

And Newsom has just announced that he wanted to work with Trump to create a federal federal tax credit of $ 7.5 billion that would cover a large part of these production costs in Los Angeles and California.

We would need more to cover the United States.

These kinds of incentives would bring production in the United States, jump savings where these films and television programs are running. Not only will we occupy jobs on the set, but restaurants and hotels and other industries surrounded.

Trump himself said: “I'm not trying to hurt the industry, I want to help industry.”

Well, if you want to help, that's how you do it. And I think a lot of people in Hollywood would be happy to help these things move forward.

It doesn't matter who brings them to us.

Cynicism

Politics is to help your voters and to appear on television. Do I think Trump wants to help a blue state like California? Do I think the presidential election hopes that Newsom really wants to go to bed with Trump?

Well, it all depends on how they question. And how these actions question with their constituents.

I am very cynical on this subject, mainly because I think Hollywood is much more diversified politically than people assume it. And because it is Americans who suffer, it is human beings who pay the grocery store, mortgages and try to live in this great country.

We need help.