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Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: "Is it where the money comes from? The script, the director, the talent, where it was shot?"
These are the important questions to asking. I imagine there won't be strict definitions of "US made" films instead it will be a "vibes" based criteria used to punish people who go against the Trump Administration's policies.
It's another control gate on the economy that he can manipulate. He is basically finding ways to insert himself in his amounts of commerce. It's a trump tax via bribes
How would that even work? At what point do you charge the tariff?
That's a good question. Everything is digital nowadays, so it's not like we're getting film reels from Bollywood.
If I had to wager a guess, the cinemas would probably be paying the tariff at the time of acquiring the license to show the film.
Or more likely the streaming service. How much of Netflix/Prime/Apple/Hulu's library is shot outside the contiguous US? How much is entirely foreign everything except funding and profits?
I think this is good. It will help local (outside the US) artistic industries space to flourish without being threatened by Hollywood.
Movies all over the world face inmence pressure form competing from Hollywood, buy without that pressure, they could focus on their local strengths instead.
Yeah USians are probably fucked though, but it's kinda bad to feel bad for the facists and their enablers.
i don’t really see how… it’ll make movies from outside the US more expensive inside the US, but it doesn’t effect the price of US movies elsewhere
… without retaliation from many other countries of course, but idk if that’ll happen really: europe has kinda gone with retaliating in other areas: specific to applying pressure rather than broad
International movie makers will stop trying to appease Hollywood because they know that it's very unlikely their movies will play in the US. So they will focus on other international markets. It's the same thing we saw with the other tariffs, right? Buyers and sellers are going to look for new business deals in every other country in the world because it makes more sense than dealing with a lunatic who were randomly impose and erase tariffs.
It's a nice thought, but the difference is that if you grow 1 tonne of rice you only need to find a buyer for 1 tonne of rice. If you've invested in a film then you need that film to play in as many markets as possible to stand any chance of recouping that investment.
I didn't vote for him. But fuck me anyway I guess.
There is a whole lot more to a healthy democracy than "I voted".
Explain to me how the fuck does this fix the economy?…
Making people poorer helps the rich get richer
Not when retaliatory tariffs come up
Ah yes that correct!
2+2=5
I don't think that's what he's trying to do.
There would be retaliation and Hollywood exports far more than the US imports with entertainment. This would cause much more damage for the US film industry.
hollywood caters to asia mostly now, thats why alot of the movies and actors kinda suck now. thier us market somewhat dying.
Yup. Movies are made for the world market so they avoid having things too culturally specific, especially US, so they make them generic. Lots of CGI crap.
I was under the impression that they film a great deal of movies in Canada because it costs far less than filming anywhere else. We also have places that look very modern while maintaining very gothic cities and all of the land in between that could be filmed to look like many places abroad. So he's costing the film industry the savings that they have gotten used to by filming in Canada. Art of the deal.
Tons of Hollywood films are shot in Hungary! Dune being one of them, but there's many many more. Cheap extras, cheap studio space and VFX industry.
Apart from the point that this would be illegal (he won't know or care, but it is), imagine other countries responding in kind? At least our country imports more media from the US than we produce on our own. And the return tarrifs costs and losses caused by that would also hit primarily US companies like Netflix, Disney, Amazon, AplleTV...
Uh, ok, what?
Are we trying to drown out foreign influence now? Like, idk, China? North Korea?
Media is our biggest GDP dollar. Donnie is playing with fire here. I'd bet my life savings he backs down, like he has on everything else.
Maybe he's talking about movies shot in Canada? I think a lot (no idea of an actual percentage) of movies are shot in Vancouver.
A lot of TV shows and movies are made in Canada because our dollar is worth less, so American companies get more value for their money.
Québec has done a lot of VFX for movies too. Hallmark movies often film in northern Ontario.
Which will result in retaliation against US movies, thus further undermining the US's unparalleled soft power.
This man is doing literally everything Putin could ever want.
Yup. The US has exerted far more power via blue jeans and culture (movies, music) than it has with bombs.
And probably demanded
I'm getting so sick of this guy.
Movies and TV shows are the US's cultural export. It helps keep us front of mind. They are essentially asking for retaliation where the US is erased from all foreign screens.
As a non American, that kind of sounds like a good thing tbh. US cultural exportation is why the MAGA right is popping up all over the west
I mean, I would think it's the billionaire financiers that are directly funding the right, but the movies probably don't help.
The movies normalized The American Way™ as the default way of doing things. The billionaires then financed the people pitching The American Way™. Without the first, the second wouldn't work.
It might be a "good" thing, but it is an incredibly stupid thing for a US president to cause, that is unless they're trying to undermine the power of the US.
The US being by far the biggest exporter of movies, the only way this makes sense is that Trump is not seeing enough ass-kissing (and ~~bribes~~ campaign donations) from the US movie industry, so he's actively trying to damage them.
Claim foreign movies are a threat, wait for other countries to retaliate against US movies, sit back and watch ~~bribes~~ sales of $TRUMP grow as the major studios seek his political favor.
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As a dual US and EU citizen, good!* European movies are better than that Hollywood shit anyway.
*for the record, neither this nor anything else Trump is doing is actually good.
Another "Trump said" that should be ignored.
How would this even work? Tariffs function by holding the physical items in customs, until the tax is paid. But a licensing deal on a digital good, that can be transfered undetected over the internet, is impossible to teriff. You could tax it other ways, but 100% of what. The distribution license? The copyright?
I guarantee he hasn't thought about any of this, and as such this mindless utterance a can be safely ignored.
I'm not sure what logistical hurdle you think cannot be overcome here. All he needs to do is find some stage in the game where any vendor in the United States is required to disclose and pay a tax on whatever is specifically identified as the targeted item. You don't need to hold the things in customs to do that. We already have tons of taxes that depend partly on the tax filer being honest. And of course they can always be audited later.
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Ok? This is current year, I can just use a VPN to stream foreign movies.
I am so tired of all the BS this regime keeps throwing at everything.
This guy is playing a board game and losing to a toddler.
The problem is he brought a deck of poker cards to a chess game.
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