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.
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.
I thank Trump for destroying the imperialist cancer that is the US.
May he continue and not be bothered by interpretative dance or other effective revolutionary acts of resistance.Fuck you! Take that back or I’ll summon my attack flash-mob to find you and dance/sing you to death!
Some other guy on here was even going to put up stickers!
Trump will never recover from that.I sent my local congressman a smoke signal of resistance. He works for me!
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.
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?
Swedish and Danish series I’ve seen always have the same 5 actors.
Yeah they do.
So does Hollywood.
Minecraft would have been better with a no-name actor as Steve. It would still suck, but at least it wouldn’t also be a Jack Black movie.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Jack Black; He plays an excellent role as Jack Black in movies where Jack Black does Jack Black things like the famous Jack Black falsetto, which is funny.
He’s no Steve, though. Steve is an anonymous character and very much not a famous celebrity. Any random person off the street would have been a better cast.
“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 are not interested in anything but themselves.
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.
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?
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.
So the wall to the south was never about keeping Mexicans out but to keep Americans in? Sounds familiar.
I’m all for that
Because clearly the US has a trade deficit in movies and entertainment, right?
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?
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.
American audiences watching too many non-American movies — 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.
It’s the same tactics that North Korea employs.
Bollywood will invest in producing their awesome movies in US, right.
Not before Nollywood muscles in.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
The Cheeto fuckwad is still bitter that Parasite won best picture.
What a childish cunt.
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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This is goint to be interesting!
Next up: 100% tariffs on movies filmed in foreign lands.
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.
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.
