Because clearly the US has a trade deficit in movies and entertainment, right?
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Most of it has been slop for the last decade too.
It'll be terrible, just terrible. What will I do without the next Marvel cookie-cutter project, Disney-fied Star Wars movie or the no doubt upcoming Borderlands sequel?
Hollywood has been propandada since it was created. It was literally invented so they could influence other countries and they've been doing that since the 80's through merchandise. It's not art for art's sake. Hollywood has always been commercials for merchandise.
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"Why, before you know it, Americans might discover that other countries, languages, and - worst of all - cultures exist. That might make them question the rightful order, and then where will we be? They'll start asking questions like 'wait, paid vacation is a thing?' or 'what's a union?', and we can't have that. No, sir."
They might see that other countries also have beautiful landscapes. They might get exposed to people with foreign accents and learn that those people are just people as well! The foreign-made films will be less subject to pressure from the US government. They might be exposed to other cultures, other religions, people of different skin tones , and accept them as actual people. All of these things are 'bad, very bad', from a christonationalist fascist viewpoint.
So the wall to the south was never about keeping Mexicans out but to keep Americans in? Sounds familiar.
Itโs ok, you can totally just censor all the queer stuff, union references, beautiful mountains, environmental ideology etc. China is already doing that sort of โquality controlโ for all imported entertainment.
In some cases, you may meed to resort to some creative editing, since the solar panels and wind turbines will get in the way. Maybe replace them with coal plants and black smoke?
That won't work, they would still see that people in other countries are just people too. That goes against the dehumanization agenda of the ring-wing extremists.
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Trump seems like a foreign asset. The destruction of US' soft power feels exactly what a Russian asset would do.
It's incredible to see US throw away something that is not even achievable for most countries especially when soft power value seems to be increasing in the information age now.
The difference between an asset and a moron is how much they are paid.
I don't believe Russia is paying him, because he has never demonstrated restraint before.
So let me guess: netflix and company are raising their prices globally soon. For reasons, right?
Can't wait to have more reasons to keep using stremio.
Stremio, Cloudstream, torrents, whatever it takes.
Real Debrid + Kodi with Fen Light is a generally smooth experience.
American audiences watching too many non-American movies โ now that's something I really didn't have on my 2025 bingo card!
It reeks of information control. They can control the American narrative using films etc. as propaganda but if people have access to foreign media that will pollute the messaging.
Itโs the same tactics that North Korea employs.
Canadian working in film over here. All our bosses fly in from the states, the company is American (usually with a temporary Canadian corporation underneath that will dissolve after the project) and half the actors and art talent are from the states.
And to address the propaganda angle, we are usually telling American stories anyways. Right now I'm working on a show about Muhammad Ali.... All the set dressing is American...
But I did sneak some Roberson screws into a set. So hopefully the word gets out to the American people. You don't have to live under the tyrant Phillips, we have a better way.
when the time comes for you to invade us, i will be helping you for your glorious square drive fasteners
Roberson screws are by far the most superior. I don't understand why any company would manufacturer anything else.
You just taught an Australian about Robertson screws. We do have them but I don't know what they are called.
Certainly better then a Phillips head but I still think Torx wins
If you know anyone working on Einstein or the recent Monk movie tell them I said "Go to hell." They'll probably get the joke lmao.
(It's the writer's catch phrase.)
(Btw, we have Robertson screws here, but they're not very popular, instead the common upgrades are Torx or just Allen. Phillips does suck though.)
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Demonstrating once again that he has no idea how tariffs work.
Tariffs are taxes on the importation of physical goods and theyโre charged at the port of entry.
Movies arenโt physical goods and they donโt go through a port of entry.
Thereโs literally no way to put tariffs on foreign movies but Trump is too stupid to understand that.
The closest thing they could do is charge tariffs on DVDs, and that would have zero impact on anything.
Sounds like it's even stupider than that - he wants to tariff movies sold in the US by US companies which were filmed overseas. So it not only doesn't go through a port, the finished movie doesn't cross borders at all.
Hollywood accounting is very experienced at making money disappear when taxes are due, I can't imagine tariffs would pose any problem at all. Anything that crosses the border will be worth $0 and make a loss, they'll have the paperwork to prove it.
I might be completely wrong about what Trump meant here. Which is fair, really - he likely doesn't know what he meant either.
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Sweden does the opposite.
The reason why there's always a Swedish actor in Nordic films is that the Swedish Film Institute gives funding to movies with Swedish actors.
It's such a silly trope by now, but at least it's the sane and successful way of doing it.
Adding a "tariff" will only result in more CGI slob. What if someone makes a movie with a story happening in Italy entirely by CGI? Would it be tariffed, and if so, what if the Italy location is actually in a galaxy far far away?
Adding a "tariff" will only result in more CGI slob
It may be slob, but it will be American Slob
As a Dane in Sweden mostly watching European productions this is always so hilarious to me. It's pretty cool though, we should be exposed to each other more!
Nordisk Film does the same so there'll be a token Danish actor in Swedish productions too, like in Helikopterrรฅnet.
You know. Like how the Nazis made sure that theirs was the only propaganda that was shown to the people. Nothing is ever new. All of this has happened before. We can break the cycle any time we like, we only just never do because we all have a different understanding of when we have the pressure and the power to overthrow our tyrannical dictators. We all have different perspectives on where the groundswell is. The only way to remedy that is to go outside and talk to the groundswell in person. The revolution will not be televised.
Bruh I'm gonna 100% torrent anything I want to watch no matter where it's produced, have fun I guess.
Bollywood will invest in producing their awesome movies in US, right.
Not before Nollywood muscles in.
I imagine this will only have a large impact on the Anglosphere. Indian movies industries, including Bollywood, rarely make movies in English.
This is actually an example of how a tariff can backfire immensely. The world consumes more US content than the US consumers do global content. Retaliatory tariffs from other countries could significantly diminish Hollywood's global reach.
RIP Netflix
That's bad for the film industry! I have a friend working on film industry here in Canada, and productions are dead, not much left since trade war started!
Not content with just trying to decimate the sciences, Trump can go after the arts next.
This is goint to be interesting!
From the country that had a black Captain America, an anti-fascist superhero, in theatres while it wouldnโt vote for a woman who is black.
Who fed us all those movies about fighting for freedom and didnโt even get the plot of their own movies let alone a history* documentary.
lol.
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