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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: "Is it where the money comes from? The script, the director, the talent, where it was shot?"

These are the important questions to asking. I imagine there won't be strict definitions of "US made" films instead it will be a "vibes" based criteria used to punish people who go against the Trump Administration's policies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

It's another control gate on the economy that he can manipulate. He is basically finding ways to insert himself in his amounts of commerce. It's a trump tax via bribes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

There would be retaliation and Hollywood exports far more than the US imports with entertainment. This would cause much more damage for the US film industry.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 hours ago

hollywood caters to asia mostly now, thats why alot of the movies and actors kinda suck now. thier us market somewhat dying.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

How would that even work? At what point do you charge the tariff?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

That's a good question. Everything is digital nowadays, so it's not like we're getting film reels from Bollywood.

If I had to wager a guess, the cinemas would probably be paying the tariff at the time of acquiring the license to show the film.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I think this is good. It will help local (outside the US) artistic industries space to flourish without being threatened by Hollywood.

Movies all over the world face inmence pressure form competing from Hollywood, buy without that pressure, they could focus on their local strengths instead.

Yeah USians are probably fucked though, but it's kinda bad to feel bad for the facists and their enablers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't vote for him. But fuck me anyway I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

There is a whole lot more to a healthy democracy than "I voted".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

i don’t really see how… it’ll make movies from outside the US more expensive inside the US, but it doesn’t effect the price of US movies elsewhere

… without retaliation from many other countries of course, but idk if that’ll happen really: europe has kinda gone with retaliating in other areas: specific to applying pressure rather than broad

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

International movie makers will stop trying to appease Hollywood because they know that it's very unlikely their movies will play in the US. So they will focus on other international markets. It's the same thing we saw with the other tariffs, right? Buyers and sellers are going to look for new business deals in every other country in the world because it makes more sense than dealing with a lunatic who were randomly impose and erase tariffs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I was under the impression that they film a great deal of movies in Canada because it costs far less than filming anywhere else. We also have places that look very modern while maintaining very gothic cities and all of the land in between that could be filmed to look like many places abroad. So he's costing the film industry the savings that they have gotten used to by filming in Canada. Art of the deal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Tons of Hollywood films are shot in Hungary! Dune being one of them, but there's many many more. Cheap extras, cheap studio space and VFX industry.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

Apart from the point that this would be illegal (he won't know or care, but it is), imagine other countries responding in kind? At least our country imports more media from the US than we produce on our own. And the return tarrifs costs and losses caused by that would also hit primarily US companies like Netflix, Disney, Amazon, AplleTV...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Ok? This is current year, I can just use a VPN to stream foreign movies.

I am so tired of all the BS this regime keeps throwing at everything.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Explain to me how the fuck does this fix the economy?…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

I don't think that's what he's trying to do.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Making people poorer helps the rich get richer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Not when retaliatory tariffs come up

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Ah yes that correct!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago

I'm getting so sick of this guy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

As a dual US and EU citizen, good!* European movies are better than that Hollywood shit anyway.

*for the record, neither this nor anything else Trump is doing is actually good.

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