“Identity Crisis”: The Three Challenges Hollywood Must Address
Fires, strikes, Covid-19, the bursting of the streaming bubble: after a battering in recent years, Hollywood finds itself at a pivotal moment. The American press identifies three challenges the entertainment mecca must overcome to bounce back: attracting new filming opportunities, renewing its leadership, and stabilizing its organization.
Political unrest in California doesn't stop at the gates of Hollywood. The Trump administration's harsh immigration enforcement crackdown led to major protests in Los Angeles over the weekend of June 7 and 8. Crackdowns further escalated the situation when the US president deployed troops in response .
In parallel with the political and legal standoff between local Democratic authorities , many American film and television stars have publicly supported the anti-Trump protests. The American press, attentive to the positions taken on social networks, has noted, among others, those of actors Pedro Pascal and Mark Ruffalo, director Ava DuVernay and host Jimmy Kimmel. The specialist site Billboard also lists the music personalities who have expressed their outrage: Tyler, The Creator, Finneas and Rebecca Black.
This burning news is taking place in a Hollywood landscape already in upheaval. The American press, and Hollywood in particular, has been drawing up a list of the multiple crises facing the entertainment industry in recent days. Here are the
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