Donald Trump’s return is making Hollywood nervous

The standing ovation lasted for more than ten minutes. “The Apprentice”, a dramatisation of the early career of Donald Trump, had one of the buzziest premieres at the Cannes Film Festival in May, with Hollywood grandees in attendance, including Cate Blanchett, an actress, and Oliver Stone, a director. Distributors snapped up the rights to release the title in many countries. But in America no big studio was willing to touch it. The reason is simple, says one American content buyer, glancing around a restaurant in Beverly Hills to check for eavesdroppers: “Fear.”