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The next big drama in Hollywood may not play out in the movie theater, but possibly the White House. President Trump has threatened to impose a 100% tariff on all foreign made films.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 The backstory to how this movie got to a\u00a0theater near you<\/u> could be a movie. And it might be someday, but Hollywood won\u2019t make it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hollywood isn\u2019t making a lot of movies these days. Production has moved away, to Texas, to Georgia, to Canada. California has the natural environment that created Hollywood in the first place, but the business environment that has driven much of Hollywood away and is strangling what\u2019s left of it. It\u2019s so bad that President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/u> recently stepped in to try to save the industry that\u2019s been weaponized against him.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hollywood<\/u> has mostly forgotten that its primary purpose is to entertain.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Warner Bros. had a movie it spent $70 million to create, finished in 2022. It brought some big names together \u2013 James Gunn as writer and producer, stars John Cena and Will Forte, and even bigger names in Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote, and all the other classics from Looney Tunes. Warner didn\u2019t just launch production on this film, it went through the entire process, and had a finished work that was ready for theaters.\u00a0It was called “Coyote vs. Acme,” pitting the hapless Wile E. Coyote against the megacorp from which he’d bought so much failed gear from over the decades.<\/p>\n
TRUMP URGES BIPARTISAN FEDERAL TAX INCENTIVE TO BRING FILM, TV PRODUCTION BACK TO THE US<\/strong><\/p>\n