Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Over a six-decade career in Hollywood, Jon Voight has played an aspiring gigolo (Midnight Cowboy), won an Oscar for Best Actor (Coming Home) and, at the age of 76,\u00a0been awarded a Golden Globe.Now, the 86-year-old Voight has taken on another role that has generated plenty of drama: \u201cSpecial Ambassador to Hollywood\u201d for the Trump administration.\u00a0\u00a0If the role was meant to be ceremonial, Voight, a longtime conservative, did not get the memo. Last weekend, he visited US President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago compound to pitch a plan to \u201cmake Hollywood great again\u201d \u2014 a conversation that sparked a week of anxiety in the global film industry. Just hours after their meeting, Trump took to his phone, posting that he would intervene to save Hollywood from \u201ca very fast death\u201d by instituting a 100 per cent\u00a0tariff on movies coming to the US that were produced in \u201cForeign Lands\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Shares in Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount plummeted the next morning, shedding $20bn in market value. Hollywood executives are puzzled by the apparent sympathy from a US president who previously expressed disdain for them as \u201celites\u201d. Trump has slammed actors such as Meryl Streep as \u201cliberal movie people\u201d and lashed out at the Academy Awards as \u201cboring, woke crap!\u201d\u00a0\u201cThis is just crazy,\u201d said one senior Hollywood executive, noting that the American film industry has a trade surplus, unlike other industries Trump wants to bolster with his tariff plans. \u201cWhat is it you\u2019re trying to achieve?\u201d\u00a0Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel mocked the announcement, telling viewers: \u201cWhat a great idea. Next year, [HBO\u2019s] The White Lotus is gonna be set at a Hampton Inn.\u201dYet the Teamsters, a union representing drivers and other staff in the motion picture industry, thanked Trump, calling his move a \u201cstrong step towards finally reining in the studios\u2019 un-American addiction to outsourcing our members\u2019 work\u201d.\u00a0Questions abound about how Trump\u2019s film tariffs would work in practice \u2014 and whether they will happen at all. A White House spokesperson on Monday said \u201cno final decision\u201d had been made and the administration was \u201cexploring all options\u201d.If the plan goes ahead, it would mark the first instance of a tariff being levied on a service instead of a physical good, said Marney Cheek, a partner at the Covington law firm. \u201cMost films are transmitted digitally and not in physical form, so there is a fundamental question about how to implement the tariff,\u201d she said. \u201cThe US government has been opposed to digital service taxes in the past, so they would have to come up with a scheme to collect the money.\u201dExecutives at Netflix and other major groups are preparing to meet with Trump to try to influence the plans, said people familiar with the matter. Their message for Trump: film tariffs would damage US businesses. During earnings calls this week three of the largest studios avoided addressing the topic entirely.\u00a0Disney and\u00a0Netflix did not respond to requests for comment. Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount declined to comment. Like other parts of US media and cultural circles, Trump has feuded with Hollywood but also shown a desire to be included in it. As a former reality television personality and producer of NBC\u2019s The Apprentice, he was awarded a star on Hollywood\u2019s Walk of Fame in 2007. He has appeared in films such as the 1990s hit Home Alone, playing himself as a New York businessman. His recent takeover of Washington\u2019s Kennedy Center implies a continued interest in influencing American culture.\u00a0\u201cTrump cares about movie stars, he cares about Tom Cruise. He loves being King Trump and wants the beautiful people\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009My question is, where is the upside for him?\u201d said media analyst Alice Enders.\u00a0Enders believed it is \u201cvery unlikely\u201d for Trump\u2019s administration to give significant federal tax incentives to Hollywood, as both Voight and California Governor Gavin Newsom proposed this week. \u201cIt won\u2019t play well with his base. The Christian base, they\u2019re not in Hollywood. They\u2019re going to say: why are we giving them more money?\u201cDoge has been cutting things right, left and centre,\u201d she said, referring to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. \u201cAnd you\u2019re going to give a huge amount of money to Hollywood?\u201dAs he announced a trade deal with the UK on Thursday, Trump nodded to his Hollywood ties, mentioning he had been friends with actor Sean Connery, who played the original James Bond. \u201cGreat guy,\u201d Trump said. But he reiterated intentions to implement film tariffs, which were not part of the trade agreement.Days before his inauguration, Trump announced that Voight \u2014 along with fellow conservative actors Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson \u2014 would become \u201cspecial ambassadors\u201d whose jobs would be to help a \u201cvery troubled place, Hollywood, California\u201d that was losing out to \u201cforeign countries\u201d.\u00a0Whatever their other qualifications, Stallone and Gibson have experience in looking outside the US to make their movies. Stallone shot Rambo: Last Blood in Bulgaria, while Gibson is shooting his sequel to The Passion of the Christ in Italy.\u00a0Despite the mutual hostility between Trump and most of Hollywood, the president\u2019s claim that it is a \u201ctroubled place\u201d sums up the way many in the city\u2019s entertainment industry feel at the moment.\u00a0Production has been moving out of Hollywood for years, thanks to generous incentives offered by Vancouver, Atlanta, New York and London. The trend to shoot outside LA accelerated after the 2023 labour strike, which brought production to a standstill for six months. An expected rebound has not materialised, leaving some to fret that Los Angeles is destined for the same fate as Detroit and the auto industry. Senior executives say there is still a strong desire to shoot in Hollywood, but they bemoan the expense \u2014 particularly after the strikes \u2014 and onerous permitting requirements to film in LA.\u00a0Newsom has introduced a $750mn annual tax-incentive plan, doubling the existing credit, and there is also discussion of cutting red tape. Trump appeared to walk back his plan on Monday, saying he was \u201cnot looking to hurt the [movie] industry, I want to help the industry\u201d. But he has not provided any more details, leaving Hollywood in limbo \u2014 and afraid of provoking Trump by speaking out.Executives this week wondered whether this was all a scheme to inflict damage on Canada, or a political tactic to gain favour with unions and weaken support for Newsom, a Democrat with possible presidential ambitions.\u00a0\u201cWith only a single social media post to go on, [it is] virtually impossible to size the impact to the industry,\u201d\u00a0Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne wrote this week. He warned that the tariffs \u201cwould lead to fewer films, more expensive films, and lower earnings for all in the business\u201d.\u00a0\u201cAt this point, we have more questions than answers,\u201d Swinburne concluded.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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