Posted on 10/20/2025 6:09:52 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
"Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries, just like stealing candy from a baby," President Trump said in a Truth Social Post. "California, with its weak and incompetent Governor, has been particularly hard hit! Therefore, in order to solve this long time, never ending problem, I will be imposing a 100% tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States."
Marvel is among the many Hollywood studios that have filmed in Georgia to take advantage of the state’s generous tax incentives for film. The company has produced nearly two dozen superhero movies and TV shows in the Atlanta area.
However, the studio has recently seen some film jobs move overseas. Marvel Studios announced plans to relocate from Georgia to the U.K. after more than a decade of filming in the state. Beginning with this summer’s "The Fantastic Four: First Steps," Marvel is making most upcoming projects in the United Kingdom...
"He wants to bring the movies back to our home ... to stop movie companies from going to Budapest, Australia," said Eddie Matthews, a veteran of the film industry and president of Hollywood South Films. "It’ll tax them when they come back, and so they’re going to say, ‘OK, we can’t leave the country now. Where’s best tax incentive in this country to go to?’ and hopefully it’ll be Atlanta, and we’ll be booming here."
Matthews – a veteran in the film industry – pointed out that the U.S. is losing major projects to Canada, and other major film markets.
"I mean Canada alone does hundreds and hundreds of movies per year, if we just got those alone, let alone the hundreds that are going everywhere else, it would be wonderful," Matthews said.
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Some more points of view:
“The tariff would not really work the same way that folks generally see tariffs as working. They’re usually product-based for cars or computers or things that are actually crossing a border, and it’s a physical product,” said Randy Davidson, CEO of Georgia Entertainment. “A movie has multiple owners — and then you have projects and productions just like Superman that was just recently done in Georgia, where locations are done across the country and across the world. It would be very, very difficult to put those things together.”
“Davidson warned that tariffs could backfire and drastically increase prices for movie theaters and streaming services.”
Who cares if Hollywood suffers a financial hit? They’ve been culturally irrelevant to the average American for years. Even ignoring the leftist ideology pushed by the celebs, the storylines are tired and the characters difficult to relate to. Haven’t set foot in a movie theater since before the scam-demic.
That’s true. There’s nothing out there except pointless sequels, reboots and remakes.
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saw this on X:
“back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you’d see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long *ss flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get to see him surf for 5 min in the finale”
Any trace of goodwill they had, they threw it in the trash a long time ago. You can’t make good movies for Americans if you hate America.
The best Sci-Fi in recent times came from Canada: Dark Matter, Firefly, The Expanse, etc.
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