Donald Trump sagt, dass Nicht-US

Can’t say it’s a major blow yet because it’s not even remotely clear how putting tariffs on a non physical good like this would even work?

Is it going to hit distributors? Streaming companies? Or just those producing physical media like 4K blu ray?

It makes absolutely no sense at all.

Pretty sure the US film industry won’t tolerate this, they go to other countries since then they don’t need to build sets and gives films an aspect of realism. This kind of choke hold will drive out the likes of Disney, Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros and Sony from the US.

I wonder if they would come to the UK and make it into the new Hollywood?

This is in direct response to China’s booming film industry. He is, in no uncertain terms, a fucking moron

How do you tariff movies when they’re digital goods?

I’ll be interested to see how this works out – as many have said – it’s hard to tariff digital goods and movies are multinational efforts.

According to culture crave the below are the major ones this will sting:

Avengers doomsday
The odyssey
Avatar 4
Supergirl.

I’d imagine this will be quickly rowed back – marketed as “a favour to Hollywood and his friends but we will
Do it and we will do it big in the future etc”

He’s such a cretin.

His mental decline these last few months is another level.

If you think about it, one of America’s main weapons from the 1980s to around 2013 was Hollywood, US films carried the stereotypes, ideologies, and character types that shaped how millions around the world thought and behaved, from Disney to war films, people grew up on that stuff and copied what they saw, generation after generation.

Now the world’s mostly moved on from the current messaging and that industry is shrinking, the US government clearly doesn’t want the same kind of cultural influence it once spread abroad coming back the other way, they saw how popular IShowSpeed was in China, saw how advanced and locked-in everything was over there, and moved fast to start shutting it down with tariffs and straight-up bans.

The clearest example is this — the biggest children’s animated film in the world recently barely got shown in any Western cinemas, it was called *Ne Zha 2: The Battle of the Gods*, massive numbers, massive reach, just not where it might challenge narrative or influence.

Wonder if anyone has actually told trump the majority of films released are already from the US

Can’t wait to hear that vacant blonde’s spin on how much winning this includes. FFS. Why can’t the orange oaf die already?

Deflection: Please don’t notice I’ve pulled 4.5bn from NASA to send to Elon…

This is so fucking stupid, it could only be thought up by the Trump administration.

Just the dumbest people.

I have a feeling this is more aimed at Canada, didn’t Carney piss him off recently? (yesterday perhaps?)

America does a fair amount of filming north of the border.

So once again hitting the pockets of the people who voted him in because he promised them they would be better off once he became President again.

This is just a smokescreen, the movie industry is dying because they no longer have the substantial DVD and Blu-Ray revenue from after films have finished their cinema debut. Everything gets streamed now and there’s little recurring revenue from that.

The real reason for this is control. Control of the narrative, teaching people to distrust and avoid media made from outside the establishment supported narrative. It’s classic fascism where the state will seize control of creative industries to limit “undesirable” thoughts and limit movements that could challenge their narrative and ultimately power.

He’s probably trying to ensure films set in America are filmed in America but how he is going to implement a tarrif i don’t know

If he wants films filmed in America then he has to make it cheaper and easier.

IiRC Rob Lowe is a presenter of a game show and its American contestants but they fly everyone out to Ireland to film because it’s cheaper.

Trump is putting the tariffs in place to save Hollywood. Surely Hollywood is the most woke, DEI, etc industry in the USA.

So why does he want to save it?

Its just hot air.

Define a US movie anyway.
Produced by a US company? made exclusively in the US? US only cast? Post-production in US only?

They need to impose all those criteria, and lets see what films are left.

Europe makes great movies. Britain has made great movies and stories in the past. streaming is a new model that can by-pass Hollywood studios. we can diversify and fill other markets. consumers can vote with their wallet and refuse to watch American made movies.