What Hollywood Wants From a Biden Presidency: Fix China, Handle Coronavirus

What does Hollywood want from a coming Biden administration? A more stable relationship with China and control of the coronavirus pandemic, according to analysts, executives and experts in the entertainment industry. “I’m hopeful that it will breathe some new life into China-Hollywood relations in terms of financing, distribution and production activity,” Lindsay Conner, partner and leader, Manatt Entertainment Group, specializing in U.S.-China entertainment deals, told TheWrap. “The fundamentals of the U.S-China relationship won’t change with the election, but I would expect the tone of the relationship to be more stable, firm and calm, with a decreased level of surface tension.” But a more urgent priority is tackling the pandemic that has decimated the economy — and Hollywood in particular. “There’s no electoral change that is going to breathe life into the theater business and live entertainment business until the coronavirus is under control and on the way out,” Conner said. In interviews with a half dozen leading figures, those two priorities emerged as the most important for a Biden administration to address — even as many also anticipate a shift in tone following four years of frostiness from Donald Trump’s White House toward Hollywood. Many hope that a Biden White...

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