{"id":44125,"date":"2025-05-06T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=44125"},"modified":"2025-05-06T10:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:00:36","slug":"oscar-winner-jon-voight-is-in-charge-of-making-hollywood-great-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2025\/05\/oscar-winner-jon-voight-is-in-charge-of-making-hollywood-great-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Winner Jon Voight is in Charge of Making Hollywood Great Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Left: Kathy Hutchins \/ Shutterstock.com | Right: The White House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hollywood has been in a noticeable slump from labor strikes to streaming domination and consumer behavior to the rising prices of everything at the box office. Unbeknownst to many moviegoers, this has been a bullet point for the Trump Administration, and now they have their man to rectify what\u2019s been wrong in Tinseltown.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cMidnight Cowboy\u201d himself and proud Trump ambassador, Jon Voight, has been named a \u201cspecial ambassador\u201d to the entertainment industry for the White House.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Variety <\/span><\/i>shared<\/span><\/a> that the Oscar-winning actor of iconic films like <\/span>Deliverance, Coming Home, Runaway Train, <\/span><\/i>and <\/span>Heat<\/span><\/i>, and his producing partner Steven Paul, have submitted a comprehensive plan to President Trump \u201cto rescue the entertainment industry.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The plan includes federal incentives for production and post-production, co-production treaties with foreign countries, infrastructure subsidies for theater owners and production companies, job training, and changes to the tax code. It also calls for tariffs in \u201ccertain limited circumstances.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Those tariffs are being met with severe blowback from many production companies nationwide. This past weekend, President Trump announced a \u201c100% tariff on movies produced outside the country.\u201d The objective for the staggering tariffs was proclaimed on <\/span>Truth Social<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe movie industry in America is DYING a very fast death,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!\u201d He later exclaimed that the incentives to bring filmmakers to other countries were \u201ca national security threat\u201d and \u201cpropaganda.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Working closely with the president, Voight and Paul introduced the tariffs to bring business back to America. To which, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said on Xwitter:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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We\u2019re on it. https:\/\/t.co\/r5zCLxZrem<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Howard Lutnick (@howardlutnick) May 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n