Jon Voight met with Trump earlier than president proposed tariffs on overseas movie productions

Jon Voight has submitted a “complete plan” to President Donald Trump mapping out methods to spice up home movie and tv manufacturing, the Oscar-winning actor’s supervisor introduced Monday.

Voight and his supervisor, Steven Paul, met with Trump over the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago membership in Florida, in accordance with a information launch. Voight and Paul pitched their suite of concepts, together with federal tax incentives, modifications to numerous tax codes, co-production treaties with overseas international locations and infrastructure subsidies for manufacturing corporations and theater house owners.

The assembly came about earlier than Trump known as for duties on “any and all Films coming into our Nation which are produced in Overseas Lands,” decrying different nations for providing monetary incentives which have lured producers away. Trump’s Reality Social submit Sunday night time was met with a mixture of confusion and worry by the leisure business. 

White Home officers clarified Monday that “no remaining choices” had been made and that it was “exploring all choices.” It was not instantly clear whether or not Trump’s proposal would additionally apply to TV productions and precisely what a part of bodily manufacturing could be tariffed.

Voight and Paul’s proposal consists of what the 2 characterize as “tariffs in sure restricted circumstances.” The information launch in any other case doesn’t point out tariffs.

Voight is considered one of three stars Trump tapped to be “particular ambassadors to Hollywood,” which Trump has known as a “nice however very troubled place.” The 2 others are Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone.

In a press release, Voight mentioned partially: “The President loves the leisure enterprise and this nation, and he’ll assist us make Hollywood nice once more.”

“We sit up for working with the administration, the unions, studios, and streamers to assist kind a plan to maintain our business wholesome and convey extra productions again to America,” he added.

“By creating the proper setting by means of good incentives, up to date insurance policies, and much-needed help, we will be certain that American manufacturing corporations thrive, extra jobs keep right here at dwelling, and Hollywood as soon as once more leads the world in creativity and innovation.”

In recent times, the American movie business has suffered a sequence of financial blows. Covid and two labor strikes upended the content material pipeline. Bodily manufacturing has declined in California amid funds cuts and extra beneficiant tax incentives elsewhere.

Voight is thought for his conservative political opinions. He’s considered one of Trump’s highest-profile movie star backers, having as soon as known as him “the best president since Abraham Lincoln.”

Voight received the Academy Award for finest actor for the Vietnam conflict drama “Coming Dwelling” (1978) and starred in the perfect image winner “Midnight Cowboy” (1969). He’s additionally identified for his roles in movies equivalent to “Deliverance,” “Mission: Unattainable” and “Ali.”

Paul is a producer, actor and expertise supervisor who based the impartial manufacturing firm Crystal Sky Photos.