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Hollywood Is Now Ready to Work With Trump: ‘You Didn’t Hear Biden Talking About How to Help Us’
As the tech world embraces Trump, many in show business are wondering just how close Hollywood will cozy up to him in this new era.
Members of the industry’s most left-wing contingent — the unions — are privately expressing hope that the president’s planned tariffs on imports may cover runaway production, thus creating a greater incentive to film in hard-hit hubs like Los Angeles and Atlanta. After-parties for the Golden Globes were abuzz with news that Prime Video had plunked down $40 million to license a documentary about Melania Trump — to be directed by disgraced filmmaker Brett Ratner, who was accused by six women of sexual misconduct in 2017. “The irony of Zenia — a former C-suite executive of one of the most progressive Fortune 500 companies in the world — now forced to lobby Donald Trump on behalf of a foreign adversary of the United States, China, is the epitome of the phrase ‘stranger than fiction,’” says Chris Fenton, a producer on “Iron Man 3” who worked closely with Rep. Mike Gallagher, former chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, on the TikTok issue.
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