'He's killing us': Cannes dealmakers slam Trump's big save Hollywood idea
May 18, 2025
|NF Times
Donald Trump's dream to save Hollywood with tariffs is not winning him fans among the dealmakers at the Cannes film festival -- even among those who voted for him. Unlike Robert De Niro -- a vocal critic who called Trump "America's philistine president" at the festival's opening ceremony -- they told AFP they have no political or personal axes to grind with him.
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But they see his idea of 100-per cent tariffs on movies produced "in foreign lands" as a “massive potential disaster” for an industry already shaken by streaming platforms. "I don't see any benefit to what he is trying to do. If anything it could really hurt us," Scott Jones, the head of Artist View Entertainment, told AFP. “A lot of people are out of work right now, and this is not going to make it better. There needs to be method to the madness," said the producer, in Cannes with a Tennessee-shot Civil War epic The Legend of Van Dorn.
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