Is Hollywood Afraid of Political Movies?

Comments

• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A U.S. deal for The Apprentice is complicated by the fact that Kinematics, the company backed by pro-Trump billionaire Dan Snyder, put up equity for the film against domestic rights and has to approve any sale. Snyder reportedly hates the film, which includes scenes of Trump abusing amphetamines, getting liposuction and scalp-reduction surgery and, most controversially, one graphic sequence showing him raping his first wife, Ivana. (Ivana made the rape claim during her divorce proceedings with Trump in the early ’90s, but later disavowed her deposed testimony, saying she didn’t mean rape in the “literal or criminal sense.”)

  Intriguingly, their reluctance doesn’t seem based on a fear of being sued. 🤔

  As for the international marketplace, thorny topics for the U.S., like Trump, have an easier time finding footing. But localized issues give international distributors pause (e.g. no Brexit movies in Britain), with the pressure coming less from audiences and more from right-wing movements attacking perceived left-wing films since, unlike the U.S., government subsidies are the main source of financing for European movies.

  Brexit doesn’t seem that good a topic for a film but there was Brexit: The Uncivil War starring Benedict Cumberbatch. However, I imagine it’ll be the backdrop to quite a few films in the future and I am sure I could come up with a batshit screenplay (Brexshit?) if someone gave me an amount of money.

  source