Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’

Because clearly the US has a trade deficit in movies and entertainment, right?
- Most of it has been slop for the last decade too.
  
  Hollywood has been propandada since it was created. It was literally invented so they could influence other countries and they've been doing that since the 80's through merchandise. It's not art for art's sake. Hollywood has always been commercials for merchandise.
  
  It'll be terrible, just terrible. What will I do without the next Marvel cookie-cutter project, Disney-fied Star Wars movie or the no doubt upcoming Borderlands sequel?
- I guess they'll also stop disneyfying European folklore then.. can't wait for a Little Mermaid movie with HC Andersen's actual plot!

"Why, before you know it, Americans might discover that other countries, languages, and - worst of all - cultures exist. That might make them question the rightful order, and then where will we be? They'll start asking questions like 'wait, paid vacation is a thing?' or 'what's a union?', and we can't have that. No, sir."
- They might see that other countries also have beautiful landscapes. They might get exposed to people with foreign accents and learn that those people are just people as well! The foreign-made films will be less subject to pressure from the US government. They might be exposed to other cultures, other religions, people of different skin tones , and accept them as actual people. All of these things are 'bad, very bad', from a christonationalist fascist viewpoint.
  
  So the wall to the south was never about keeping Mexicans out but to keep Americans in? Sounds familiar.
  
  It’s ok, you can totally just censor all the queer stuff, union references, beautiful mountains, environmental ideology etc. China is already doing that sort of “quality control” for all imported entertainment.
  In some cases, you may meed to resort to some creative editing, since the solar panels and wind turbines will get in the way. Maybe replace them with coal plants and black smoke?
- They are not interested in anything but themselves.

Bruh I'm gonna 100% torrent anything I want to watch no matter where it's produced, have fun I guess.

Trump seems like a foreign asset. The destruction of US' soft power feels exactly what a Russian asset would do.
It's incredible to see US throw away something that is not even achievable for most countries especially when soft power value seems to be increasing in the information age now.
- The difference between an asset and a moron is how much they are paid.
  I don't believe Russia is paying him, because he has never demonstrated restraint before.
- And it will cause a power vacuum that will be filled by countries like China and Russia, which have their own imperialist agenda (unless you mean "anti-US" by "anti-imperialism").
  
  Fuck you! Take that back or I'll summon my attack flash-mob to find you and dance/sing you to death!

Canadian working in film over here. All our bosses fly in from the states, the company is American (usually with a temporary Canadian corporation underneath that will dissolve after the project) and half the actors and art talent are from the states.
And to address the propaganda angle, we are usually telling American stories anyways. Right now I'm working on a show about Muhammad Ali.... All the set dressing is American...
But I did sneak some Roberson screws into a set. So hopefully the word gets out to the American people. You don't have to live under the tyrant Phillips, we have a better way.
- when the time comes for you to invade us, i will be helping you for your glorious square drive fasteners
- You just taught an Australian about Robertson screws. We do have them but I don't know what they are called.
  Certainly better then a Phillips head but I still think Torx wins
- Phillips can get bent. I've stripped way to many cheap screws with Philips heads.
- If you know anyone working on Einstein or the recent Monk movie tell them I said "Go to hell." They'll probably get the joke lmao.
  (It's the writer's catch phrase.)
  (Btw, we have Robertson screws here, but they're not very popular, instead the common upgrades are Torx or just Allen. Phillips does suck though.)
- Roberson screws are by far the most superior. I don't understand why any company would manufacturer anything else.
  
  Torx for the win
- An all American movies being produced in canada. Why?
  Genuine question.
  
  When in doubt, always go with cost reduction, margin expansion, and profit maximizing. Throw in some local tax credits and incentives for added flavor.
  
  Money and resources.
  They could film it in the states, but perhaps all the studios are booked up right now (this is a problem even in Vancouver and Toronto). A lot of filming decisions are based on what infrastructure is available to the producers, and these things take time to develop into a movie making industry.
  So where else would have:
  Easy access to shooting locations that could pass as American
  A large pool of workers with skills and experience in producing film/tv
  Who speak English
  Close enough to LA or wherever the main studio brass is located
  With easy travel and communication channels
  Palatable to talent (safe, familiar enough)
  A used goods market that matches the set dressing and wardrobe requirements, as well as prop warehouses and wardrobe rental houses full of stock.
  A pool of actors and background artists that match "American"
  I'm just listing off the top of my head right now, but the real question is "why not?"
  Sure, making a 1960's US historical drama set in the states could be done ANYWHERE, but it sure would be easier 60km from the border on the same continent than in Seoul, where the dollar does 39% more damage.
  There are tons of tax credits as well, not just in Canadian cities, but states like Georgia and all the other's trying to encourage productions to come boost their economies. The amount of jobs and goods needed for a production is insane, and many places want those decent, well paid jobs and supporting jobs.

So let me guess: netflix and company are raising their prices globally soon. For reasons, right?
Can't wait to have more reasons to keep using stremio.
- Stremio, Cloudstream, torrents, whatever it takes.
  
  Real Debrid + Kodi with Fen Light is a generally smooth experience.

American audiences watching too many non-American movies — now that's something I really didn't have on my 2025 bingo card!
- It reeks of information control. They can control the American narrative using films etc. as propaganda but if people have access to foreign media that will pollute the messaging.
  It’s the same tactics that North Korea employs.

RIP Netflix

Sweden does the opposite.
The reason why there's always a Swedish actor in Nordic films is that the Swedish Film Institute gives funding to movies with Swedish actors.
It's such a silly trope by now, but at least it's the sane and successful way of doing it.
Adding a "tariff" will only result in more CGI slob. What if someone makes a movie with a story happening in Italy entirely by CGI? Would it be tariffed, and if so, what if the Italy location is actually in a galaxy far far away?
- As a Dane in Sweden mostly watching European productions this is always so hilarious to me. It's pretty cool though, we should be exposed to each other more!
  Nordisk Film does the same so there'll be a token Danish actor in Swedish productions too, like in Helikopterrånet.
- Adding a "tariff" will only result in more CGI slob
  It may be slob, but it will be American Slob
- Yeah they do.
  So does Hollywood.
  Minecraft would have been better with a no-name actor as Steve. It would still suck, but at least it wouldn't also be a Jack Black movie.
  Don't get me wrong, I like Jack Black; He plays an excellent role as Jack Black in movies where Jack Black does Jack Black things like the famous Jack Black falsetto, which is funny.
  He's no Steve, though. Steve is an anonymous character and very much not a famous celebrity. Any random person off the street would have been a better cast.

Demonstrating once again that he has no idea how tariffs work.
Tariffs are taxes on the importation of physical goods and they’re charged at the port of entry.
Movies aren’t physical goods and they don’t go through a port of entry.
There’s literally no way to put tariffs on foreign movies but Trump is too stupid to understand that.
The closest thing they could do is charge tariffs on DVDs, and that would have zero impact on anything.
- Sounds like it's even stupider than that - he wants to tariff movies sold in the US by US companies which were filmed overseas. So it not only doesn't go through a port, the finished movie doesn't cross borders at all.
  Hollywood accounting is very experienced at making money disappear when taxes are due, I can't imagine tariffs would pose any problem at all. Anything that crosses the border will be worth $0 and make a loss, they'll have the paperwork to prove it.
  I might be completely wrong about what Trump meant here. Which is fair, really - he likely doesn't know what he meant either.
- Donald Trump on Sunday announced on his Truth Social platform a 100% tariff on all movies “produced in Foreign Lands”, saying the US film industry was dying a “very fast death” due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American film-makers.
  I do not know how it works, but he wants American movies that filmed outside US to get tariffs.
  
  Hey, that makes two of you. He clearly doesn't know how any of this works, either.
  But yeah, it also drives me nuts that people can have entire threads of posts without having clicked through to the thing they are reacting to once.
  You may even draw some connections between that and Trump getting elected in the first place, if you wanted to put yourself in a very deep pit of despair. I mean, this whole thing is in reaction to a dumb tweet. Even Trump doesn't seem to know what he's talking about or how any of this would work.
  But he said it, and now we're talking about it without any understanding on what it is, because it's just some crap he posted in the crapper. And tomorrow he will see what people are tweeting back and double down on whatever gets him the most attention.
  I am SO tired of this century.
  If you want to do something useful go get Romanians on the platforms to get their friends off their asses and not electing a Trumpian president. That may at least still do something.

You know. Like how the Nazis made sure that theirs was the only propaganda that was shown to the people. Nothing is ever new. All of this has happened before. We can break the cycle any time we like, we only just never do because we all have a different understanding of when we have the pressure and the power to overthrow our tyrannical dictators. We all have different perspectives on where the groundswell is. The only way to remedy that is to go outside and talk to the groundswell in person. The revolution will not be televised.

Not content with just trying to decimate the sciences, Trump can go after the arts next.

The Cheeto fuckwad is still bitter that Parasite won best picture.
What a childish cunt.

Bollywood will invest in producing their awesome movies in US, right.
- Not before Nollywood muscles in.
- I imagine this will only have a large impact on the Anglosphere. Indian movies industries, including Bollywood, rarely make movies in English.
  This is actually an example of how a tariff can backfire immensely. The world consumes more US content than the US consumers do global content. Retaliatory tariffs from other countries could significantly diminish Hollywood's global reach.

That's bad for the film industry! I have a friend working on film industry here in Canada, and productions are dead, not much left since trade war started!

This is goint to be interesting!

From the country that had a black Captain America, an anti-fascist superhero, in theatres while it wouldn’t vote for a woman who is black.
Who fed us all those movies about fighting for freedom and didn’t even get the plot of their own movies let alone a history documentary.
lol.

https://youtu.be/z8TJIQQN5js

- From the article:
  Donald Trump on Sunday announced on his Truth Social platform a 100% tariff on all movies “produced in Foreign Lands”, saying the US film industry was dying a “very fast death” due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American film-makers.

Man, I have such mixed feelings on this.
On one hand, it would mean that Netflix would stop trying to push shitty Bollywood films on me (seriously, if I could prevent all Hindi films from showing up on my Netflix forever, I would absolutely do that). On the other hand it would mean that the really darkly melancholic Euro films would also be off the menu.
- A lot of the good South Asian content is in the form of TV shows now. Movies (especially North Indian / Hindi) have been on the downslide for the past 10 years.. I feel like shows are generally doing better than movies globally. It's really hard to explore a topic well in ~2 hours.
  Generally if you stop watching movies from a region it will stop suggesting them to you. I watched an Italian movie once and it recommended movies from there for a week or so and then stopped.
  
  I have NEVER watched a Hindi movie. The closest I got was the most recent Zatoichi film, which had a weird-ass song-and-dance number at the end that was totally unrelated to the entire film. But scrolling through Netflix, it still keeps suggesting Hindi films for me, "because you liked...!"
  I do watch some K-horror (Train to Busan, The Wailing, Thirst, etc.), Japanese chambara (the above mentioned Zatoichi, Lone Wolf and Cub, Hanzo the Razor--which is solidly pinku-eiga--and others), and sometimes Chinese historical pieces. I've watched a few Malay and Indonesian horror films as well. Some of the Asian television series are pretty great; I was really enjoying Gyeongseong Creature and Kingdom. I've tried watching Japanese TV, and the stuff I've seen has just been bad. I don't think I've come across any Chinese TV shows that have interested me.