Posted on 05/05/2025 4:42:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In a move that could shake up the entertainment industry, President Trump says he’s directed his administration to put a “100% tariff” on any movies coming into the U.S. that were not produced in this country.
He posted on his Truth Social platform on Sunday that he’s authorized the Department of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative to institute the tariff.
“The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” he wrote. “Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda!
Therefore, I am authorizing the Department of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands. WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!”
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Well this sucks... 50% of my viewing are KDramas!! I wonder what the next Netflix increase is going to be??
NOOOOOOO!
Hollywood needs to die.
The hollyweird pimps and whores have priced themselves out of the business. That, plus the fact that said pimps and whores no longer know how to produce a movie that is worth watching. They've created a Perfect Storm for themselves, and couldn't deserve it more.
See my #20. The Korean film industry has been winning market share in the U.S. the old-fashioned way, by making progressively better movies and shows as their industry matures, and by responding to consumer preferences. And Korea is not a low-cost venue in global terms. It’s probably cheaper than California because California has gone so crazily off the rails, but is Korea cheaper than northern Georgia or Tennessee, which has always had an opening because of the huge country music infrastructure already in place? Not to mention being a RTW state, which cuts costs across the board even if “talent” is still covered by the SAG-AFTRA contract.
The legitimate problem in the movie business right now, internationally speaking, is the proliferation of big production tax credits to bribe producers to shift filming abroad. This is classically predatory. But this should be addressed on a targeted basis, being careful to distinguish between the good and bad actors.
A number of U.S. states are also getting into the production tax credit game. So what are we going to do internationally: penalize films shot in Ireland, the UK or Hungary because those countries are doing exactly what Georgia and other states are doing?
I don’t know that Korea is a problem in this respect. If they aren’t, they shouldn’t be penalized. Maybe they won’t be. Trump is an undisciplined talker. He grabs the headlines with bold sweeping pronouncements, and then the dealmaking begins. The problem with that, however, is that it introduces enormous uncertainty. The lead time on a major film is several years. Movie studios need to know what the rules are. This is true in any industry sector. No one is going to build a new chip fab complex, auto plant, or shipping hub if the rules change with every tweet ... and subject to reversal with the next election, which is always less than two years away.
Aren’t a lot of U.S. films done in Canada?
His effort to prop up U.S. based industry could be better spent elsewhere. Hollywood is dying because what they produce for the most part is an insult to the audience. This is not be accident. Tariff on foreign made film is not going to make Hollywood change their product.
The e film industry in California is dying because they are determined to go over the cliff with other Leftist lemmings.
How about Hollywood just start making better movies?
I don’t suppose it has anything to do with the quality of movies?
Trump is wrong on this. It IS dying in America - and NEEDS TO. They don’t make anything worth watching.
Why do you want to help people who hate America?
btt!!
A large percentage of films also are tailored so as not to have content that offends the market in communist China.
Let it die. Good riddance to Hollywood trash.
Some Disney films moved to the UK — to get lower taxes, if that is possible!
The movie industry is dying in theUS not because of foreign competition but because Hollywood is producing woke crap that the American public does not want to see.
What’s he going to charge the tariff on? The hard drives? This whole thing is silly.
propping up the 90 percent communist-infected entertainment industry would not have been my first choice
I’d let it die (and kick out the foreign ownership of entertainment, news, and cultural organizations, also ACADEMIA!!!!! Like Columbia University for starters... majority foreign, hostile enemy nations. controlled)
That was an astonishingly informative response. As in, send this one to the president. Thanks.
Foreign films aren’t the reason Hollywood is dying.
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