Posted on 05/05/2025 4:56:51 AM PDT by thegagline
That’s “President Trump” to you.
I am not interested in any films from Hollywood.
How did you read my mind? Should I be concerned?
I have been waiting for that...taxing if money wires out of US...toe tappin,’ still waiting...
We went to see a movie a while back.
First in over a decade.
It was a Japanese film. Japanese distributor.
Here is a very good French action movie-— The French actors have more real and tougher vibe than what Hollywood gives you. Netflix and maybe elsewhere.
*****The Lost Bullet and its sequel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSFnUc0JvbA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Bullet_(2020_film)
Hallmark Channel hit hard...
To be clear: many foreign countries offer significant incentives to shoot films abroad. If you stick around to the back of the film credits, you will always see logos indicating the film was shot in Canada or UK etc.
However, I am not actually convinced tariffs would help the film industry. It would just make movies shot in Europe more expensive. Maybe this is more about hurting Europe, and frankly, about hurting Hollyweird. If so, I’m all for it, otherwise I don’t care.
Canada is going to hate this one.
I’m not interested in protecting Hollywood.
Agreed, a shot across the bow of the new mouthy PM
PLEASE.
*trying to imagine “The Sound of Music” filmed on a Hollywood set*
Just say no
Trying to imagine The Sound of Music being created today. Anywhere on earth.
It’s going to be hard to implement this. Streamers dont necessarily have to import anything they can stream them from Korea or Costa Rica to a worldwide audience. Some big budget films and TV does go overseas because of massive credits. Up to around 30% of the budget spent in the UK can be rebated by the UK (with some caps and caveats). That’s basically like the UK paying for 25% of the cost of making a feature or large budget film or TV show. And the producers don’t even have to give them 25% ownership either they get to keep all the profit. It’s too good a deal to pass up. How they tariff those products I don’t know. It will require a deep analysis of the very opaque nature of film financing - and what do they specifically tariff? The physical prints? Box office tickets? Just slap a tax on the distributor?
Not to mention the 1A first amendment issue. I’m sure someone mentioned that already on this thread.
30 min vid analyzing what Trump just did from YouTuber WDW Pro...
https://youtu.be/RGEK0WE7CJc?feature=shared
Very well worth the watch.
Location shoots likely wouldn’t be defined as production.
Watch the WDW Pro vid I linked to at an above reply.
What Trump just did is freaking genius, and WDW Pro provides a great explanation of just how genius...
BTW, WDW Pro will be doing another show tonight. That one will discuss Thunderbolts stinking up the joint box office-wise, but will also delve into the tariff news, too.
Should be good...
We watch a lot of films from Korea and Japan. Men are men, women are women, and there is little to no queer stuff. Wholesome stuff, like we used to have in the USA more than half a century ago. Additional bonus, no in your face black lives matter crap (not racist, I just don't want to see it 100 percent of the time like here).
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