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Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago

when the time comes for you to invade us, i will be helping you for your glorious square drive fasteners

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

Roberson screws are by far the most superior. I don't understand why any company would manufacturer anything else.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 53 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because clearly the US has a trade deficit in movies and entertainment, right?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Most of it has been slop for the last decade too.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

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?

[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"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."

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

So the wall to the south was never about keeping Mexicans out but to keep Americans in? Sounds familiar.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It’s ok, you can totally just censor all the queer stuff, union references, beautiful mountains, environmental ideology etc. China is already doing that sort of “quality control” 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?

[–] taladar 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, you’re right. Better just ban all foreign influences. Americans should only see movies approved by the Ministry of Truth. In movies like that, all foreigners basically nothing but vermin, begging to be exterminated by the pure and just Americans.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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?

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

Adding a "tariff" will only result in more CGI slob

It may be slob, but it will be American Slob

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

American audiences watching too many non-American movies — now that's something I really didn't have on my 2025 bingo card!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago

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.

It’s the same tactics that North Korea employs.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Stremio, Cloudstream, torrents, whatever it takes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Real Debrid + Kodi with Fen Light is a generally smooth experience.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Demonstrating once again that he has no idea how tariffs work.

Tariffs are taxes on the importation of physical goods and they’re charged at the port of entry.

Movies aren’t physical goods and they don’t go through a port of entry.

There’s 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Donald Trump on Sunday announced on his Truth Social platform a 100% tariff on all movies “produced in Foreign Lands”, saying the US film industry was dying a “very fast death” due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American film-makers.

I do not know how it works, but he wants American movies that filmed outside US to get tariffs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Hey, that makes two of you. He clearly doesn't know how any of this works, either.

But yeah, it also drives me nuts that people can have entire threads of posts without having clicked through to the thing they are reacting to once.

You may even draw some connections between that and Trump getting elected in the first place, if you wanted to put yourself in a very deep pit of despair. I mean, this whole thing is in reaction to a dumb tweet. Even Trump doesn't seem to know what he's talking about or how any of this would work.

But he said it, and now we're talking about it without any understanding on what it is, because it's just some crap he posted in the crapper. And tomorrow he will see what people are tweeting back and double down on whatever gets him the most attention.

I am SO tired of this century.

If you want to do something useful go get Romanians on the platforms to get their friends off their asses and not electing a Trumpian president. That may at least still do something.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The only way i see it applied, is only to US companies that they film outside US. So the state comes and asks how much did you spend filming there? $5 million, well here is a $5 million bill to pay us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but now you're implementing it for him.

Filming on location is a bit of an afterthought, and typically local film comissions will spend money creating incentives for it when they have the right conditions for it. You know, weather, facilities, locations, some beaches or mountains you can pretend are a fantasy thing with dragons...

But the movie is not necessarily produced there, and there is no real process for the government of the place where the production firm originates to go add a tax disincentive on their end. I mean, at what stage? Using what instrument? Production companies for movies are often made ad-hoc for an individual project anyway.

He's just taking out of his ass, as always, and we're giving him too much attention, as always. If he gets to doubling down on this he may try to do something, and he probably should figure out himself what that is. I'm not gonna do his homework for him.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

He’s just taking out of his ass, yes, but he has others to figure the how and the terms for him. Or he can do the method he used, putting tariffs all over the world. Asking chatGPT lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

For sure, but at least on that they were just being dumb about figuring out an amount to slot into a tax process that was already in place.

I don't know that they have a mechanism or instrument to tax any of this at any point. And I'd love to see them have Grok or ChatGPT or whatever design a loophole-free tax that targets some company of unknown origin shooting some footage in some location through some service provider or subsidiary and then post-producing that footage somewhere else and then showing that footage in cinemas, TV and streaming in some other location.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Bollywood will invest in producing their awesome movies in US, right.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

Not before Nollywood muscles in.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

The Cheeto fuckwad is still bitter that Parasite won best picture.

What a childish cunt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

From the country that had a black Captain America, an anti-fascist superhero, in theatres while it wouldn’t vote for a woman who is black.

Who fed us all those movies about fighting for freedom and didn’t even get the plot of their own movies let alone a history* documentary.

lol.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

This is goint to be interesting!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Next up: 100% tariffs on movies filmed in foreign lands.

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

From the article:

Donald Trump on Sunday announced on his Truth Social platform a 100% tariff on all movies “produced in Foreign Lands”, saying the US film industry was dying a “very fast death” due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American film-makers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

I got it! What I meant to say was, next up for the tariffs will be American movies filmed on location in foreign lands. My wording was unclear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

https://youtu.be/z8TJIQQN5js

[–] [email protected] -5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Man, I have such mixed feelings on this.

On one hand, it would mean that Netflix would stop trying to push shitty Bollywood films on me (seriously, if I could prevent all Hindi films from showing up on my Netflix forever, I would absolutely do that). On the other hand it would mean that the really darkly melancholic Euro films would also be off the menu.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

A lot of the good South Asian content is in the form of TV shows now. Movies (especially North Indian / Hindi) have been on the downslide for the past 10 years.. I feel like shows are generally doing better than movies globally. It's really hard to explore a topic well in ~2 hours.

Generally if you stop watching movies from a region it will stop suggesting them to you. I watched an Italian movie once and it recommended movies from there for a week or so and then stopped.

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

I have NEVER watched a Hindi movie. The closest I got was the most recent Zatoichi film, which had a weird-ass song-and-dance number at the end that was totally unrelated to the entire film. But scrolling through Netflix, it still keeps suggesting Hindi films for me, "because you liked...!"

I do watch some K-horror (Train to Busan, The Wailing, Thirst, etc.), Japanese chambara (the above mentioned Zatoichi, Lone Wolf and Cub, Hanzo the Razor--which is solidly pinku-eiga--and others), and sometimes Chinese historical pieces. I've watched a few Malay and Indonesian horror films as well. Some of the Asian television series are pretty great; I was really enjoying Gyeongseong Creature and Kingdom. I've tried watching Japanese TV, and the stuff I've seen has just been bad. I don't think I've come across any Chinese TV shows that have interested me.

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

Yeah with South Asian movies you have to be pretty selective. A ton of movies are produced there and they generally are not directed at a global audience (which is perfectly fine in my opinion).

I'm not sure what this Zatoichi film is. Generally song and dance numbers are in commercialized mass market trash these days but had their charm (to south asian audiences at least) in the 90s and early 2000s. Those mass market movies are usually the ones that end up on Netflix.

There are some excellent hindi movies out there but more recently I'd say south Indian movies have been better overall.