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New York – Donald Trump wants to make Hollywood “bigger, more wonderful and stronger” and launched Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as stars of what he calls his “special ambassadors in a wonderful but very problematic place, HollywoodArray California “.
On Wednesday, the President-elect announced on his social media site that the three actors would be his eyes and ears to the moviemaking town.
“Once it will be, like the United States of America, the Hollywood Golden Age!” »He wrote about social truth.
He also called the trio of special envoys. Ambassadors and special envoys are selected to respond to trouble spots like the Middle East, not California.
Gibson said in a statement that he got the news “at the same time as all of you and was just as surprised. Nevertheless, I heed the call. My duty as a citizen is to give any help and insight I can.”
Gibson, who lost his mantel spot at the Palisades, added: “Is there a possibility of the position being accompanied by an ambassador?
U. S. film and television production has been hampered in recent years, with the setbacks of the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2023 Hollywood Guild strike, and, over the past week, ongoing wildfires in the region. Los Angeles. In the United States, total production fell by 26% compared to 2021, according to data from ProdPro.
In the Los Angeles metropolitan area, Productions fell 5. 6% compared to 2023 according to Filmla, the lowest since 2020. October, Governor Gavin Newsom proposed expanding California’s film and television tax credit program to $750 millions consistent with the year. Other US cities like Atlanta, New York, Chicago and San Francisco have used tax incentives to attract film and television productions to their cities. Actor Mark Wahlberg is even making plans for a Las Vegas production center.
We do not know precisely what Gibson, Voight and Stallone will do in this effort to bring productions to the United States. Voight and Stallone representatives did not respond to the request for comments.
Trump’s decision to select the actors as his chosen “ambassadors” underscores his preoccupations with the 1980s and ’90s, when he was a rising tabloid star in New York, and Gibson and Stallone were among the biggest movie stars in the world.
Stallone is a regular guest at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and brought him to a gala in November at a time after the election.
“When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea that he was going to change the world. Because without him, you could imagine what the world would look like,” Stallone told the crowd. “Guess what? We got the second George Washington. Congratulations!”
The decision also reflects Trump’s willingness to overlook his supporters’ most controversial statements.
Gibson’s reputation has been altered in Hollywood since 2006, when he introduced an anti -Semitic speech when he arrested for influence. But he also continued paintings in customer films and did the next “flight risk” of the next mystery of Wahlberg.
Voight is a longtime Trump supporter who has called Trump the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln.
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