Steven Paul has repeatedly been Mar-A-Lago over the years. The producer and for a long time Jon Voight, along with producer Scott Carol, was a weekend again with producer Carol, which took place to save Hollywood.
“I always enjoy being there and see the President,” said Paul said Diversity Friday. “It’s fun to see the president and the amount of energy he works at the same time.”
Voight Hollywood, the winner of the 86-year-old Oscar, is one of the three “special ambassadors” for Trump. Paul is the President of the “Special Consultant” and Karol Paul and COO’s “Special Consultant”. They both live in bringing together for the film abroad – including a string one last Movies Was shot in Bulgaria.
Paul said they spent a “wonderful time” in Mar-a-Lagon on Saturday and Sunday. Trump’s acquisition from these meetings, Hollywood’s “die” and this was the fact that he could do anything about it. On Sunday night, Trump allowed the truths permitted to 100% tariffs in the film produced in “foreign lands.”
This announcement was asked a little freakut in the world a week ago before the start of the Cannes Film Festival. The White House took him back on Monday. Trump later, the “60 minutes” candidate in EMMYS, which was rewarded for an interview with Harris, “60 minutes”, “60 minutes”, “60 minutes” had a great deal with a very diary.
Meanwhile, Paul and Carol – had a hurricane that made his first visit to the President’s weekend home. Their five-page policy contour – some of the numerous opinions, some of them developed better than others – the last date called for clarifying that it was intended as an official proposal and an official proposal. Deputies, associations, associations and industrial figures received all controversy.
It was not clear on Friday that this Trump is another problem and that all the options are in the table. They agreed to talk to Paul and Carol Diversity – Perhaps he was a Hollywood reporter under the impression – to try to make it all.
This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.
Steven Paul: First I love Hollywood reporter.
You talk Diversity.
SP: Well, you’re going there. Children look at us and have prepared beautiful stories for us. So we’re happy Diversity.
Well, I just want to choose your brain. You created a very comprehensive offer. This includes things like federal film promotions and Finnish-syn-Syn rules and burning. Trump hears this and chose the tariffs outside of all this, and said, “That’s what.”
Do you think he is not interested in other things?
I know that the President loves fun, want to see the business healthy and would not want to harm the business. He wants to see Americans working here. As he says, he wants to see a bigger and better Hollywood.
Do you think it is serious about applying the tariff to foreign-produced films?
I don’t want to talk to the president and don’t want to say that it is thinking and thinks. But I think that if there was a total of simply for movies, it can end up to the industry instead of the help of the industry. Therefore, I hope that this will not be the last favorable.
What we have in our opinion and the desk was the federal tax promotion and other tax attractive things, other taxes that can help people to make money and motivate to produce here.
When he told the President, what did he say?
His acceptance is that it is to do everything here and want to do everything here. So, what will happen to finally – Y’know, he asked us to work with the people and trying to do it. Now this is trying to bring together to bring together we cannot see if we can see this special work.
Things to tell me were an American cultural test. Britain has a culture test they want to protect the English culture, obviously. How does this in a context of the United States work?
SP: I do not think that this is how it will work as something like this. However, if the idea is to film here in the United States – train movies in the United States and try to make Americans. Another features were obviously to be processed.
Scott Carol: I just want to say that the vast majority of the British “cultural test” is not really a cultural test. If you look at it, “English and crew are used in English and take place in English,” but a point system used in a large number of foreign jurisdictions to promote the concept. This is a point system. It really does not pay attention to culture, because the origin focuses on the elements of the country.
Thus, “Yellowstone” or really is nothing but to promote something that speaks in the heart of America.
SK: We are not intention to try and manage the content. We want to return our film production to the United States.
In terms of your professional information, it is very interesting to find yourself in a weekend in Mar-A-Lago, talking to the President about this thing. If I’m wrong, make me straight, but it’s not like you are in public policy.
SK: I am a lawyer. I have received a financial degree. In the entertainment industry, work and legal affairs, production and finance and for more than 30 years, and now I have been financing and distributed. I have cooperated in Kentucky, New York, California, Alaska, all over the world. Thus, I have received a gentle money and tax discounts and returns for the 30s. I also talk to people trying to make movies and finance for movies and television shows. Therefore, I am unparalleled to talk about this issue.
And Steven?
SP: I am not a lawyer and I’m not political and I’m not none of these things, I have worked in the industry in all my life and finance them all over the world. So, yes, we participated in all of them, I do not want to say every country in me – but many, many, in many countries around the world.
This experience, who is abroad, has made you a prospect for these productions to be abroad?
SP: Unfortunately, we have been one of those who have to make a film abroad. It just happens. It does or break – no matter whether you don’t shoot a movie or movie.
As a manufacturer, you should look at all these things and “OK, will be the best place to make the movie?” We will go, “Ok would be great if we can do here.” But then we should look, well, how do we finance it? Whether we want to make a movie there, can we make a movie there?
And “Oh, wow, we can’t figure out how to make movie.” We must understand that we can actually get it. And then sometimes we need to understand that we change the film a little that we have changed a bit to work in the area where we should take a film. I think a very particularly independent manufacturer, unfortunately, in this way you need to look at the movies in this way.
SK: This is a studio problem. This is primarily as an independent manufacturer, but studios are the same problems. If you make a $ 100 million film and the price of production, it has a $ 15 or $ 20 million speed that can be a difference between a profitable film or a movie that lost money. This is the reality we all face.
Therefore, I understand the mechanic here: If you are a manufacturer and you think, “Ok, maybe I will throw away and give me a $ 10 million incentive.” The idea of ​​a tariff, “Well, good, if I do it, I see I have to pay $ 12 million now. Therefore, I can stay at home and click here”?
SK: The idea we propose, for every producer we spoke, we have always heard that each studio title and each stream is relatively equal, but always chose to film in the United States
We do not want to set up a race to the bottom, here’s the race of these gun loans. Thus, this is a structure that has a structure that has a structure that has a worker in the United States, which is a film that is in the United States, it promotes this movie a little better than this movie.
Thus, it will neutralize the advantage of going from abroad.
SK: Exactly.
SP: I want to say anything else about it. The document we move forward was not actually an offer. You have a paper like talking points and “all the thoughts you need to talk here.” Because some may contradict each other, aren’t it? Represents many thought in this document. As you can see, all cannot be practical.
When did you think of the news, “I hope the President will work with me to promote $ 7.5 billion with me”?
SP: I do not want this, I am looking for some of these analysis tax credits, as I am looking for these California tax credits. But I heard many people who are not happy with the program there. Therefore I do not know if the copying for a potential federal tax credit is the correct program.
But is the dollar figure in the right ballpark?
I don’t know this will be the right number.
Adam Schiff also works on this.
We had no conversation with him, but I heard it. We had dinner with the mayor.
Karen bass?
Yes. We enjoyed lunch with him. Supported the industry very much and wants to try to do everything he can, and I believe it. I told him that he had to build the meeting with the governor and us, and said that we would try to do it because we had to see it.
Where did the idea of ​​tariff come from?
Well, as you can see, are tariffs.
Yes, the tariffs are. But nobody will not take a movie before.
I think that if we encourage this and encourage it, I think it may be a way of punishing a promotion there. Probably caused by such a thing.
And the studios “Please, please, please do not,” let’s say, “he listen. But who knows.
I still can’t talk to what to do and what it does. But I am sure that he wants to help in the industry and do the right thing.
