Published: 4:09am, 17 Jan 2025Updated: 5:09am, 17 Jan 2025
Donald Trump wants to make Hollywood “bigger, better and stronger” and has cast Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as stars of what he is calling his “Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California”.
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On Wednesday, the US president-elect announced on his social media site that the three actors would be his eyes and ears to the filmmaking town.
“It will again be, like The United States of America itself, The Golden Age of Hollywood!” he wrote on Truth Social.
He also called the trio special envoys. Special ambassadors and envoys are typically chosen to respond to troubled hotspots like the Middle East, not California.
US film and television production has been hampered in recent years, with setbacks from the Covid-19 pandemic, the Hollywood guild strikes of 2023 and, in the past week, the ongoing wildfires in the Los Angeles area.
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Overall production in the US was down 26 per cent from 2021, according to data from ProdPro.