For folks who want excellent analysis, check out YouTube channel WDW Pro. They got into this in a vid from this morning, will be do8ng another show tonight.
What Trump is doing is freaking brilliant.
Disney Commits $5 Billion to U.K. and European Production Over Next Five Years
I am sooooo good with anything and everything that has the UK's Deep State excreting bricks.
“””What Trump is doing is freaking brilliant.”””
Why?
I’m not sure why Trump brought this up but like many other things he has fiddled with previously at first it’s not easy to see what his end game is. Or, is he using this to troll Hollywood or maybe even troll the big news outlets?
As always, he’s entertaining.
Thanks. I will check it out. WDW Pro is one of the YouTube shows that I watch with some regularity. I think that group is generally on the right side of things; they are certainly fundamentally opposed to Woke Hollywood.
In this case, however, did they touch on the proliferation of tax incentives for movie and tv production on the part of the great majority of U.S. states?
I cannot fault Ireland, the UK or Hungary for doing exactly what so many U.S. states are doing. But this is legalized corruption; we ought not want ANY governments to be in this business. For socialists, of course, it is a feature, not a bug; the lefties would be delighted to have Ministries of Culture with a financial stranglehold on all production, based on an underlying cost structure that makes it virtually impossible for non-controlled studios to compete.
If California, New York and George can do it, then Ireland, the UK and Hungary should be able to do it. Level playing field ....
Funny how Hollywood misses the point where Hollywood used to be king. I get the industry now as a global thingy but the President just wants what’s best for America and Americans. Half a million are in the industry in America. Why is making movies made in America again controversial?Like everything else, these foreign countries subsidized and incentivise undercutting American industry and Americans.
Nothing smart about it. He can’t force business back to LA. LA and California priced themselves out of the market with very high production costs, i.e. crew costs Unionized pay, etc.. That cannot be fixed by tariffs. Many companies have relocated to Georgia and other states where shooting is cheaper and the LA talent is moving with them because of lower cost of living.
None of this has been thought out, as usual Trump saying something on social media.