Old World, New Power: The Unexpected Ways Europe’s Entertainment Business Could Benefit From Trump’s Re-Election – IMDb

Judging by the shocked faces on the European buyers and sellers attending the recent American Film Market in Las Vegas, the U.S. election didn’t end the way they had hoped. On the morning after, the most common reaction heard around the Palms Casino, where the conference took place, was “Wtf” (or a variation of) along with an eagerness to board a return flight home.

Whatever the opinions of Donald Trump across the Atlantic, the new political order could prove a

boon to Europe’s creative industries, which have flourished thanks to government-backed incentives and an exodus of U.S. talent to the Continent.

If anything, the election outcome crystallizes a shift in the way America is perceived abroad, one that has made Europe a land of opportunity for talent.

“For the longest time, the U.S. has been looked up to as a kind of ideal, a model…