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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.
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.
The only way i see it applied, is only to US companies that they film outside US. So the state comes and asks how much did you spend filming there? $5 million, well here is a $5 million bill to pay us.
Yeah, but now you’re implementing it for him.
Filming on location is a bit of an afterthought, and typically local film comissions will spend money creating incentives for it when they have the right conditions for it. You know, weather, facilities, locations, some beaches or mountains you can pretend are a fantasy thing with dragons…
But the movie is not necessarily produced there, and there is no real process for the government of the place where the production firm originates to go add a tax disincentive on their end. I mean, at what stage? Using what instrument? Production companies for movies are often made ad-hoc for an individual project anyway.
He’s just taking out of his ass, as always, and we’re giving him too much attention, as always. If he gets to doubling down on this he may try to do something, and he probably should figure out himself what that is. I’m not gonna do his homework for him.
He’s just taking out of his ass, yes, but he has others to figure the how and the terms for him. Or he can do the method he used, putting tariffs all over the world. Asking chatGPT lmao
For sure, but at least on that they were just being dumb about figuring out an amount to slot into a tax process that was already in place.
I don’t know that they have a mechanism or instrument to tax any of this at any point. And I’d love to see them have Grok or ChatGPT or whatever design a loophole-free tax that targets some company of unknown origin shooting some footage in some location through some service provider or subsidiary and then post-producing that footage somewhere else and then showing that footage in cinemas, TV and streaming in some other location.
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.
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.
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This is goint to be interesting!
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.
Yeah with South Asian movies you have to be pretty selective. A ton of movies are produced there and they generally are not directed at a global audience (which is perfectly fine in my opinion).
I’m not sure what this Zatoichi film is. Generally song and dance numbers are in commercialized mass market trash these days but had their charm (to south asian audiences at least) in the 90s and early 2000s. Those mass market movies are usually the ones that end up on Netflix.
There are some excellent hindi movies out there but more recently I’d say south Indian movies have been better overall.
It was the 2003 version with Takeshi Takano rather than Katsu Shintaro playing the lead role. Without the weird song and dance number it would have been a very solid entry (despite the digital blood).
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.
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.
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!
Bruh I’m gonna 100% torrent anything I want to watch no matter where it’s produced, have fun I guess.
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.
Next up: 100% tariffs on movies filmed in foreign lands.
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.
I got it! What I meant to say was, next up for the tariffs will be American movies filmed on location in foreign lands. My wording was unclear.
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!
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.
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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”).
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Lesser evil lol🤣🤣🤣
Well, Russian imperialism only hurts KKKrakers in Ukraine and Europe through funding far-right parties, so I guess that is okay, let’s forget about Russia exploiting Africa or its own ethnic minorities…
China just wants to “take back” Taiwan, so it’s okay, let’s not give a shit about the will of the Taiwanese, while also using its soft power in Africa…
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Fuck you! Take that back or I’ll summon my attack flash-mob to find you and dance/sing you to death!
Some other guy on here was even going to put up stickers!
Trump will never recover from that.I sent my local congressman a smoke signal of resistance. He works for me!
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.
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
Which one? I have 15, 20, 25, and sometimes 30 in my pouch. I can almost tell them apart by eye these days…
Torx are lovely, but nothing beats a Robbie 90% of the time.
I’ve never heard of seen Robersons. I had to search online. Is it the square ones?
I’m personally a huge fan of hex sockets. I’ve had torx bits snap and twist before. Don’t think I have had problems with a hex.
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.
Phillips can get bent. I’ve stripped way to many cheap screws with Philips heads.
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
