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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.
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.
Unrelated but the “W” in the Hollywood sign is asymmetrical.
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.
alot of people complain about dwayne johnson, PRATT,etc. asians love these american foreigners because its all action movies, they dont care about the actual script or the movie or the drama of the actors.
thats why influencers are also big there too.
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…
China and many countries are huge consumers of American movies and entertainment.
Let them retaliate up the wazoo. We deserve everything we get. It just sucks that us non-magas have to suffer for their idiocy.
China doesn’t need to retaliate. Chinese cinema goers are overwhelmingly choosing domestic product over import in recent years. For 2024, for example, 80% of the Chinese box office went to Chinese productions.
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.
I’m getting so sick of this guy.
Relax. Hell backtrack on them in 3 weeks.
After destroying the USs reputation (even further), but before collecting any meaningful value/revenue.
And other countries to add American movies to the list of things to retaliate with.
Hell can keep him ;)
Beg to differ, Hell has standards. They wouldn’t want the orange dumpster.
Nah, I imagine whatever demon got ownership of Donny would win the jackpot. Trump isn’t the first of his kind, he’s barely special at all when lined up next to other self-indulgent, hate-filled dictators who had amassed power throughout human history. Hell would have plenty of experience with his kind, and thus would know exactly what to do with Donny.
Each of those former-rulers had legions of people who absolutely detested them. There’d probably be a celebration when a massive shitbag like that finally passes the gates of Hell. A creative demon would probably recognize and exploit that energy somehow, maybe by offering people a break from being tortured, and instead getting a chance to torture such an individual for a set amount of time. (Probably charging the people for the opportunity, too, since I assume Hell would be capitalist. But I disgress.) Point is, a demon would have a lot of options with a ward like Donny.
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
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 didn’t vote for him. But fuck me anyway I guess.
There is a whole lot more to a healthy democracy than “I voted”.
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.
You’re thinking of Hollywood movies.
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
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.
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.
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.
Québec has done a lot of VFX for movies too. Hallmark movies often film in northern Ontario.
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.
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