Donald Trump says non-US movies to be hit with 100% tariff in major blow to UK film industry

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1. Soooo how does this work? Does the cinema pay the tariff to be able to show the movie and then raise ticket prices? What about streaming services?

2. Can’t say it’s a major blow yet because it’s not even remotely clear how putting tariffs on a non physical good like this would even work?

   Is it going to hit distributors? Streaming companies? Or just those producing physical media like 4K blu ray?

   It makes absolutely no sense at all.

3. He’s talking out his fucking arse again. I bet his staff are running around behind the scenes trying to come up with an explanation as to what this policy could actually be materially.

4. Pretty sure the US film industry won’t tolerate this, they go to other countries since then they don’t need to build sets and gives films an aspect of realism. This kind of choke hold will drive out the likes of Disney, Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros and Sony from the US.

   I wonder if they would come to the UK and make it into the new Hollywood?

5. TV report I saw this morning said 1000%.

   Either way what’s foreign made? Kinda hard to define. Does it include ANY work done abroad? That’s surely a sizable majority of films these days…

6. This is in direct response to China’s booming film industry. He is, in no uncertain terms, a fucking moron

7. Fuhrer oops I mean El Duché, no that’s not right…. President Trump is a playground bully who says the first thing that comes to mind. I’d pity his staff if they weren’t his demented cronies.

8. How do you tariff movies when they’re digital goods?

9. Just stupid stuff he hasn’t thought through. Lots of movies film in multiple locations and outsource special effects and editing. Retaliatory tariffs would also sink the US film industry which produces for an international audience.

10. He probably thinks that films still come in massive reels that’ll physically get offloaded from ships.

    As for locations, they could just go back to the good old days when California would double for everywhere from the Alps to the Sahara desert, and if that didn’t work a painted backdrop would suffice.

11. His mental decline these last few months is another level.

12. I wonder if he knows Hollywood was founded by eastern european jews

13. If you think about it, one of America’s main weapons from the 1980s to around 2013 was Hollywood, US films carried the stereotypes, ideologies, and character types that shaped how millions around the world thought and behaved, from Disney to war films, people grew up on that stuff and copied what they saw, generation after generation.

    Now the world’s mostly moved on from the current messaging and that industry is shrinking, the US government clearly doesn’t want the same kind of cultural influence it once spread abroad coming back the other way, they saw how popular IShowSpeed was in China, saw how advanced and locked-in everything was over there, and moved fast to start shutting it down with tariffs and straight-up bans.

    The clearest example is this — the biggest children’s animated film in the world recently barely got shown in any Western cinemas, it was called *Ne Zha 2: The Battle of the Gods*, massive numbers, massive reach, just not where it might challenge narrative or influence.

14. “For tax reasons, I think we are still in Kansas, Toto”

15. Can’t wait to hear that vacant blonde’s spin on how much winning this includes. FFS. Why can’t the orange oaf die already?

16. Honestly this is surely a huge opportunity for the UK now to go against Hollywood and strike out on its own. UK tv is already wildly successful and punches massively above its weight globally, we make a shit ton of films here too. Do we need the Americans telling us what to do now or do we go it alone? 

    Given we are the next largest (in population terms) anglophone state, from a soft power perspective it is surely a no brainer for Starmer to throw some money at this? 

17. Deflection: Please don’t notice I’ve pulled 4.5bn from NASA to send to Elon…

18. Lol.. so he is okay with all US MEDIA being given the exact same tariffs? Seems to me that will end up with them losing out.. and considering A LOT of US film and TV is actually filmed in Canada its going to get expensive for them…. Hollywood is about to get taxed into oblivion…..

19. This is so fucking stupid, it could only be thought up by the Trump administration.

    Just the dumbest people.

20. I have a feeling this is more aimed at Canada, didn’t Carney piss him off recently? (yesterday perhaps?)

    America does a fair amount of filming north of the border.

21. S’alright. I’ll just watch the original UK versions of the movies/TV series’ and boycott all the shit US remakes.

22. So once again hitting the pockets of the people who voted him in because he promised them they would be better off once he became President again.

23. He’s probably trying to ensure films set in America are filmed in America but how he is going to implement a tarrif i don’t know

    If he wants films filmed in America then he has to make it cheaper and easier.

    IiRC Rob Lowe is a presenter of a game show and its American contestants but they fly everyone out to Ireland to film because it’s cheaper.

24. I’m sorry what fucking idiots still support this man, mental illness at this point.

    Half the population in the US literally live in an alternate reality where they believe he won the 2020 election.

    They’re too far gone

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