Daniel Bekerman, film producer Donald Trump The apprenticehas a different take to a large part of the world entertainment industry left in shock by the American president threatening a 100% rate on foreign manufacturing films.
Bekerman considers the film's price as less an economic tool to bring jobs and a film creation to Hollywood, but as a Trump narration tool to keep his own image as an infallible factor in attack and counterattack. “When it comes to Trump, speaking of film prices in the film industry, now he has actually got home, because this industry is the place where his skills are,” explains Bekerman The Hollywood Reporter About a Hollywood filled with stars, magnates and directors also followers with the main narration.
“The prices … are a narrative tool that supports his story which he has been telling for 50 years, because he met Roy Cohn. And the story concerns the character named Donald Trump, and that reinforces this story because she says: “Look how much I protect you, and I am the only person who can solve these things. I am the only one who can save you, ”he insisted.
In The apprentice, Directed by Ali Abbasi, the legendary lawyer of Hitman Cohn, played by Jeremy Strong, teaches a young Trump (Sebastian Stan) the rules of business and life victory. And Bekerman, insisting that he is still the optimist, adds that he sees Trump's speech on a 100% film price for a film price that an entertainment industry has built on the reaction to instability and change can rely.
“I am always looking for a positive. Yes, the announcement the weekend was shocking. If this were to be promulgated, it would be very destabilizing in all territories, including the United States, but for this industry, destabilization, this is where we live. It is a set of skills that we know how to deal with, ”said Bekerman.
But in the aftermath of the conversation on the prices of Trump's film, the rest of the Canadian film industry did not share the optimism of Bekerman because it weighs the potential impact of a strong important tax on foreign manufacturing films on an increasingly global business.
The Actra, the Actic of Actors of Canada, said that the price of the proposed film threatened the country's production sector, which depends strongly on the major Hollywood studios and the banners who draw their originals across the country, in particular in Toronto and British Columbia. The last salvo of the American trade war against Canada came before President Trump welcoming Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday at the White House.
“It is more than a commercial dispute – it is an attack on the means of subsistence of Canadian artists and creators,” said Eleanor Noble, national president of Actra, in a press release.
Neishaw Ali, CEO and executive producer at Spin VFX, a large visual effect studio of the film and television based in Toronto with offices in Atlanta and Los Angeles, said that the prices offered by Trump on films produced outside the United States have challenged the needs of an increasingly global entertainment industry.
“A 100% price on the services and content linked to production would be deeply damaging for our industry which is really based on international collaboration to function effectively and in a creative manner. The studios are today multinational and subject to intense pressure to produce high quality content at lasting costs,” said Ali to Ali THR.
“Large and large -scale productions require highly qualified, informed and creative teams, resources that are often in high demand and shortage, in particular when several projects are in motion simultaneously,” said Ali, whose recent credits VFX spin include paramount + School minds And Netflix The umbrella And Save bikiniAdded.
Ontario creates, a government agency that markets the Canadian province in Hollywood as a foreign location destination, said it weighed Trump's film's film rate alongside previous samples placed on Ontario manufacturing goods imported into the American market. “We continue to work in close collaboration with industry and work partners affected by President Trump's unjustified rates,” Ontario said in a statement.
Ontario’s first, Doug Ford, showed his exasperation with Trump's latest pricing field at a press conference in Toronto as he defended the province’s film industry. “This guy is incredible. This day is something new with him. You know, we have built our film industry up to around $ 3 billion, or the goal is $ 5 billion. But again, it goes right after the world. It is obviously against the mid-term elections.”
Creative BC, which markets the west province west of Hollywood, is also looking for clarifications on the price of the proposed American film. “As a world-renowned production center, British Columbia remains determined to maintain stability and confidence in industry. We work in collaboration to seek clarity and provide advice during this period of uncertainty,” the government agency said in its own declaration.
