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Hollywood Tariff Push Sparked By Trump-Jon Voight Meeting Where Actor Proposed Levies In 'Certain Limited Circumstances:' Report
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 - 3:55am | 629Read More...President Donald Trump‘s decision to levy a 100% tariff on foreign films resulted from a proposal by actor Jon Voight and his manager, Steven Paul. What Happened: Voight and his manager had a meeting with Trump and they submitted a “comprehensive plan”, following which,...
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Francis Ford Coppola Spent $120M Self-Financing Passion Project: What The Gambit Could Mean For The Film Industry
Thursday, May 16, 2024 - 1:01pm | 683Read More...Director Francis Ford Coppola shot to international stardom in the 1970s following his critically acclaimed films “The Godfather,” “The Godfather Part II” and “Apocalypse Now.” His latest, the self-financed film “Megalopolis,” is set to premiere on...
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How Blockchain Is Breathing New Life Into The Film Industry
Monday, June 15, 2020 - 11:13am | 1185Read More...The sudden onset of a pandemic can certainly bring things into perspective, revealing what is most useful and sustainable, and what adds unnecessary weight in a crisis. We are witnessing an incredible volatile market, as seen by the Chicago Board Options Exchange's CBOE Volatility Index (...
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No Business Like Show Business: Film Production Drivers Get Clearinghouse Exemption
Friday, May 29, 2020 - 1:33pm | 637Read More...Drivers in the movie production business convinced regulators that they should have a certain flexibility when conducting pre-employment screening through the federal Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse. In a decision scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on Monday, the Federal Motor...
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Tobacco Reemerges As Hollywood Star, But Does The Screen Time Help?
Friday, July 14, 2017 - 10:23am | 654Read More...If Hollywood still mandates what’s cool and what’s not, a challenge may be looming for tobacco adversaries. Studies reveal the reemergence of cigarettes as a common prop, sagging from the mouths of America’s cultural icons. Tobacco incidents in top-grossing movies increased 72...
