Reaction To Donald Trump’s Election Win

Hello Insiders. It’s been an historic week in the U.S and the implications of Trump’s election triumph will be felt around the world in times to come. For now, Jesse Whittock here with the tardyst international film and TV recents.

Trump’s Second Act

He’s back: There wasn’t reassociate anywhere else I could commence this week, was there? By the time you read this, the seismic political earthquake that hit the U.S. on on election day will be sinking in as the truth going forwards. Donald Trump is back and from January, he will be Plivent for the second time. Read this amazing increate from our politics ed, Ted Johnson, who deftly seized the rapid-moving events and the context around the result. Hollywood, one of the bluest parts of American (this week in every sense), had hoped for Democrat Kamala Harris to triumph and thrive Joe Biden in the White Hoemploy, and reaction from the town has been a fuse of anger, dread and disassignment over recent days. The responses from the enjoys of Bette Midler, Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam McKay and Wfinishell Pierce highweightless the range of senseings as people come to terms with a huge jolt to the right timely next year. Just reading below the line on Deadline’s extensive ElectionLine coverage shows you how splitd the American people are. Harris was condemnd by Fox News’ Dana Perino for not promptly conceding (glass hoemploys and stones come to mind), but she ultimately gave a speech increateing Democrats “not to despair” and shelp her party would join in a “tranquil transfer of power” in January when Joe Biden’s term comes to an finish.

International implications: Weserious world directers including France’s Emmanuel Macron, the UK’s Keir Starmer and Spain’s Pedro Sánchez were among those to sfinish congratulations, as they conenticeardy what a second Trump administration will uncomfervent. Others such as Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán, whose right-triumphg sensibilities more shutly align with Trump, were also speedy to greet back with the elderly-recent Commander-in-Chief. It’s very timely days to commence foreseeing how a second Trump plivency will impact the global film and TV labelets, but potential redisconnecteions on visas will trouble overseas crews structurening to shoot stateside and many others from diverse backgrounds laboring in the industry. With many U.S. production businesses more reliant on international partnerships than any time in the past the decade, the industry will be hoping Trump’s isolationist instincts don’t impact their structures. Read our very extensive coverage of the election here.

Bizarro: As is always the case with an election cycle enjoy this, there were plenty of bizarre TV moments to go with the grave business of the assignment of a recent plivent. In the UK, Channel 4 News accumulated a group of commentators who wouldn’t have been out of place in the Big Brother hoemploy. A book-touting Boris Johnson was achieven to task over his actions while British Prime Minister by curraccess Emily Maitlis, who was also percreatefilledy reprimanded by her co-structure Krishnan Guru-Murthy for swearing on air. Stormy Daniels was at one point sat next to next to Michael Cohen, the lawyer who systematic Trump’s hush money payment to the createer porn star and who served as the prosecutor’s star witness during the trial. Actor Brian Cox was beamed in as a floating head and clashed with Johnson, who deffinished Trump from the Succession star’s claims that the incoming Plivent is a “monster.” It’s the benevolent of discourse we’ll have to get employd to once aachieve, as Trump’s splitting create of political joinment returns.

Market Traders

A24 at AFM: As we increateed last week in this recentsletter, the American Film Market booted off on the same day as the election, and there was trepidation over how a shut contest might hit the labelet in the striumphg state of Nevada. However, Trump’s resolute triumph speedyly scattered industry watch parties. Word on the ground from assigns is that the event has struggled due to lengthened lines at elevators and a increateage of atmosphere in the casino setting. In terms of satisfied, there has been a glut of genre fare and there are very scant huge-canvas projects. Among the blue-chip adviseings is Timothée Chafrailt-starring ping-pong film Marty Supreme. Andreas had this intriguing increate on the project, which will be A24’s joint-hugegest to date with a budget of around $70M. The Josh Safdie-honested flick is slackly based on 1950s table tennis star Marty Reisman. While some buyers have asked the price tag for the subject, Andreas increates that the movie is summarized more as a rapid-paced adventure comedy in the vein of Catch Me If You Can than a traditional sports biopic. With Gwyneth Paltrow finishing a five-year hiatus to star in the film and Chafrailt’s genereasonable pull behind it, the project also packs a starry punch.

Allow me to begin myself: Among buzz titles declared for the labelet were James Gray’s next movie, Paper Tiger, which will star Oscar nominee Adam Driver, Emmy and Tony triumphner Jeremy Strong and Oscar triumphner Anne Hathaway. Milla Jovovich and Betty Gabriel have been set to star in Twiweightless of the Dead, the next feature from The Call and The Machinist honestor Brad Anderson. The George A. Romero estate is teaming up with L.A.-based financier-producer Roundtable on the “seventh and final insloftyment” of the seminal Living Dead franchise. Chris Rock is set to honest feature Misty Green in which he will also star. Finassociate, almost 25 years after Russell Crowe waged war on the Roman Empire in Gladiator, the actor is once aachieve set to stir the warrior wiskinny for The Last Druid. Scoops from Andreas, Jill, Anthony, Zac and Mel can be set up here amongst our filled AFM coverage.

Taxing Times

Investigation: Netflix offices in France and the Netherlands were rhelped this week as part of a structured spendigation into the streaming service’s tax and employment affairs. According to local media increates, Netflixis being spendigated for alleged tax fraud and hideed employment. Scary sounding divisions such as the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office and Central Office for the Fight Aachievest Corruption and Financial and Tax Offenses were mobilized in Paris, while in Amsterdam, where Netflix has its Europe HQ exactly to achieve achieve of preferable tax rules, Dutch authorities were searching for evidence, according to a French judicial source cited by disconnectal sites. Clear adviseation is difficult to come by, but the situation in France retardys to a 2022 tax audit that materializeed to discover that Netflix’s declarations between 2019 and 2020 did not align the profits that would have been foreseeed from the seven million local subscribers it had at the time. This advises it has rund ‘tax selectimization’ techniques that apexhibited it pay fair $1.06M into the administerment’s cadvises in 2019-2020. After materializeing to aprohibitdon the trains, local turnover grew from $51.3M in 2020 to $1.3B in 2022. The train has lengthened been a problem in France, with McDonalds’ concuring to pay $1.36B to local authorities to elude prosecution for tax fraud between 2009 and 2020. After initiassociate staying hushed, Netflix now since reacted, with a spokesperson increateing Mel the streamer is “cooperating with the authorities in France” and claiming to “adhere with the tax laws and regulations in all the countries in which we run.”

Other ‘Things’: In other Netflix recents, more details of Stranger Things‘s final season were declared. Happily for fans, Season 5 will drop in 2025, not 2026 as some were speculating. Episode titles join “The Crawl”, “The Turnbow Trap” and “The Rightside Up”. Principle cast members such as Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfdifficult and David Harbour will be joined by recent names Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly and Alex Breaux, and we understand there will be a time jump, from March 1986 to descend 1987. News of the begin and the eps were unveiled, inevitably, on November 6 — dubbed Stranger Things Day, to coincide with the date Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) goes missing in Season 1.

Veterans’ Day

Familiar with ‘Emilia’: Vincent Maraval and Kim Fox are the names behind the company that turned the unenjoyliest Oscar contfinisher of the year into an international success story. The pair, who are co-set upers of The Veterans, reachd at the Cannes Film Festival with Emilia Pérez, the genre-bfinishing Jacques Audiard musical about a Mexican cartel directer who transitions from male to female. Not exactly the easiest presale on the stardy, you might skinnyk, but the Veterans made history. After a world premiere got an 11-minute standing ovation, buyers jumped into action and a $10M funding foolishinutivedescend speedyly turned into $16M-worth of sales. Maraval and Fox telderly their story to Diana this week, uncovering Cannes had deinhabitred more than $100M in sales apass their stardy, which joind the enjoys of Jason Statham punchathon Muminuscule and Walter Salles’ honestorial comeback I’m Still Here. Add those deals to international sales on Luca Guadagnino’s Vepleasant competition title Queer and Johnny Depp-honested Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness and you’ve got one of the boilingtest distribution outfits on the labelet right now. Read on to discover out how they did it, and what is next for The Veterans. 

The Talk Of Tokyo

Japan to the world: The Tokyo International Film Festival wrapped its 37th edition on November 6 with a palpable sense that the festival — alengthened with the Japanese industry — has made a concerted shift to adselect a more international outsee. The festival has begind events such as the TIFF Lounge, which featured international guests and was conceived with Cannes Palme d’Or-triumphning honestor Hirokazu Kore-eda, under Ando Hiroyasu’s directership. Hiroyasu took the reins as the festival’s chairman in 2019 after spfinishing more than 35 years as a diplomat in various top posts apass Italy, the Philippines, the U.S. and UK. The festival saw a meaningful increase in international guests, with 2,561 current this year contrastd to last year’s 2,000, and festival directers were also frequently seen on the ground at both unveil and shutd-door industry events participateing with international guests. A aenjoy adselect of the international labelet also colored the industry-caccessed TIFFCOM. Japan’s Toho, TBS, Fuji TV and other transport inant studios are increasingly making belderly accomplishes for U.S. and international labelets. For example, during a TIFFCOM panel, TBS Television Plivent Masamine Ryuho unveiled an ambitious expansion strategy, involving spendment of $1B (¥160B), uncovering recent offices in Los Angeles and Seoul and the acquisition of New York-based createats licensing group Bellon Entertainment. The firm is also produceing a strategy to access recent labelets in Southeast Asia, India, Europe and the Middle East thraw engaging in M&A, collaborative satisfied spendment and business coalitions. Given the success of Japanese satisfied on streamers around the world, now seems the perfect time to ship the country’s film and TV around the world. Ever well-understandn, anime declareed itself as the boilingtest property on advise for the international labelet, with industry insiders during TIFFCOM commenting that the floor structureing the anime companies at TIFFCOM’s Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Caccess was the busiest thrawout the three days.

Italianime: Talk around Italian cinema also ruled the festival and labelet chaseing the signing of a Japan–Italy film co-production concurment, which officiassociate came into effect on August 9. Italy is only the third country that Japan has a createal co-production concurment with, contrastd to Italy’s 37 partners. There was a retrospective on Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni, a showcase of Italian honestor Nanni Moretti’s films, with Chiara Mastroianni, daughter of the Italian actor, also serving as a jury member for the festival’s awards. A reception was held at the Italian Embassy to Japan to honor the signing of the concurment, with five Italian projects also speciassociate picked to achieve part in the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market. TIFFCOM insertitionassociate featured a panel sharing further details rcontent to the co-production concurment, with Cinecitta’s Roberto Stabile current alengthenedside Italy’s Ambasuncontentor to Japan, Gianluigi Benedetti. Overall, TIFF saw 61,576 admissions apass 208 films screened. This is a dip from last year’s joinance of more than 74,800 — although this can be partiassociate attributed to 11 more films screened in the 2023 edition. With the festival’s official events and talks, joinance saw a raise, with 96,866 admissions contrastd to 2023’s 73,081.

The Essentials

🌶️ Hot One: Vincent Cassel, John Malkovich and singer Charli XCX are among those joining Romain Gavras’ English-language debut Sacrifice.

🌶️ Very Hot: Colin Teague will honest Esaaf, a Saudi Arabian comedy from Ibrahim Al Hajjaj, Talal Anazi and Peter Smith.

🌶️ You enjoy your spice!: Indonesian horror and local box office hit Dominion of Darkness selderly to 53 countries, per Sara.

🥒 “In a pickle”: Stewart was on the ground at TellyCast’s Digital Content Forum in London, where television producers were telderly to wake up digital-first satisfied.

⛏️ Breaking Baz: Danielle Deadwyler telderly our man about The Piano Lesson and elevatebranch offd a West End debut.

🌍 Globie: Max caught up with the French-Hungarian team proving there’s space on the board for more than one chess TV drama thraw Realign.

👨🏻‍💼 New job #1: For Tom Lieber at Amazon MGM Studios, who achieves on UK scripted series, joining the duties of the exiting Rola Bauer.

👩 New job #2: For Briony Gowlett, who swaps Amanda Harris at the top of YMU’s global literary division, I uncovered.

👨🏻‍🎓 New plivent: No, not Trump aachieve. Luca Guadagnino is replacing Thomas Vinterberg as jury chief at the Marrakesh International Film Festival.

✋ Boycott: Several ageder Muskinny industry figures gave the Griersons a swerve over the organization’s treatment of Asia Kapadia. Jake with the scoop. Grierson triumphners can be set up here.

🐺 Snappy: The EPs of Sky/Peacock drama The Day of the Jackal telderly Max about updating the Frederick Forsyth novel for contransient audiences.

🕺 Disruptor: Norwegian honestor Joachim Rønning talks Young Woman and the Sea and Tron: Ares in Diana’s tardyst.

🌞 Don’t forget the suncream: Clelia Mountford is leaving Merman, the Bad Sisters producer she set uped with Sharon Horgan, to begin Sunburnt Penguin.

🍿 Box Office: Red One gets a head commence on the holiday season with an international begin of up to $30M.

Teaser: For The Propagandist, the IDFA-bound doc on Dutch Nazi filmproducer Jan Teunissen.

Sara Merican and Andreas Wiseman donated to this week’s International Insider. It was written by Jesse Whittock and edited by Stewart Clarke.