US EditionJon Voight on Trump tariffs: ‘He wants us to be the Hollywood of old’
- Over the weekend, Jon Voight presented President Donald Trump with a five-page proposal titled 'Make Hollywood Great Again,' which calls for tariffs on films made abroad and the reinstatement of the fin-syn regulations.
- The plan responds to the decline of U.S. Film and TV production, which has shifted overseas due to high domestic costs and foreign tax incentives with up to 40% credits.
- Voight advocates for imposing a tariff equivalent to the full value of foreign incentives received by films produced outside the U.S., and suggests implementing a federal tax credit ranging from 10% to 20% to promote domestic production and help revive industry employment.
- The original fin-syn rules, adopted under Nixon and eliminated in 1993, banned networks from owning primetime entertainment programs, a policy Voight aims to restore to limit broadcaster and streamer ownership.
- Industry observers generally doubt tariffs will work and predict resistance to full fin-syn reinstatement, suggesting incentives rather than penalties are crucial to revive Hollywood's competitiveness.
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Jon Voight on Trump tariffs: ‘He wants us to be the Hollywood of old’
Jon Voight is speaking out about the tariff plan he said he presented to President Trump, saying the commander in chief is aiming to return Hollywood to a previous era through levies on international films. “He wants us to be the Hollywood of old,” the “Midnight Cowboy” star said of Trump in an interview with Variety published…
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Jon Voight’s Plan Raises Prospect Of Reinstating Fin-Syn Rules As TV Series Enter Tariff Conversation
There is one phrase in Jon Voight’s “Make Hollywood great again” plan that could upend the TV industry: “Restoration of the FINSYN Rule” for both broadcast networks and streamers. The document, which Deadline revealed exclusively Tuesday, also confirmed that TV series indeed are part of the initiative since initial statements, including President Donald Trump’s Sunday social media post, only focused on American movies filming overseas being hi…
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