Either A) it's an effort to constrict free speech into a state-controlled media, B) He's trying to break a back to back cycle of bad media days with shiny objects, or C) both of the above. My money is on B as the impetus. Especially after the Kristin Welker interview.
He’s gonna make Zuck patrol the meta verse with a silly toy badge like Elon and stop the internets from letting foreign actors in literally, expect Russia of course. Not that type of foreign actor.
Yea, but he is Black and Trump is racist and does not acknowledge reality. All he sees is a film by blacks, staring blacks is doing wel so WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Per Variety, this apparently came from Jon Voight as an emergency plan to save Hollywood, so, yes: I think it’s legitimately an attempt to block decadent foreign films being smuggled to our shores
But isnt most roles Jon Voight get these days, outside conservative porn, is villains in movies produced in Romania financed by German tax writeoff and Arabic sovereign funds ?
Seems trump will tariff anything and everything as long as
he can get away with it. W-h-y wouldn't trump tariff, while
republicans cowardly give up their power in congress? tariff's they seem to believe do not ride on their backs, but ours and our families!!! D-E-S-P-I-C-A-B-L-E!
So if one of the cast members is Canadian is the movie tariffed? Is it tariffed if it’s an American production, but filmed partly in Vancouver or Toronto? What if the cinematographer is French?
This is Project 2025 telling Trump what to say. Their goal is to cripple another American industry--tariffs on foreign films = tariffs on American films. They're just trying to tear down the USA to replace it with a dictatorship. What Trump thinks doesn't matter. He's a puppet.
I was thinking he wants a cut from all the movie theatres...Regal, Consolidated, etc. And even the streaming platforms when movies skip the theatres and go straight to streaming.
It’s not the medium - it’s the storyline he wants to control and foreign made films negate that. He’s already pressuring Paramount and Skydance successfully.
Would not be surprised to learn he does think films “produced” overseas literally get shipped into the county on film reels. Assuming this wouldn’t be a “tariff” as we understand it but that’s one of the six words he knows so that’s what he called it.
Me pessimistically thinking just this morning that they'll somehow find a way to make tariffs increase the prices of digital video games across the board soon, and now i'm actually scared.
Remember how outraged he was when Parasite, a furr'n film, won Best Picture? Went out of his tiny mind. That's what this is all about. He thinks Hollywood should be whites only, English language only.
Imagine trying to explain literally anything to Donald Trump. I live with a boomer, my MIL. I think I'll try to explain anime to her to see what that is like.
When I was young and naive, I left a Gundam Wing fanfic open on the family computer. My (boomer) mom printed out an article on a dot matrix printer about how Japan is misogynist... I’m positive she still doesn’t know what anime is.
No, he just got you to stop talking about how dumb he looks not knowing if he has to honor his oath to uphold the constitution. On to the next distraction. Did you see the one about Alcatraz?
The problem is, of course, that if you define all you don’t like as a National Security Threat, there are not words left to describe real national security threats.
Like the president and his sycophantic bunch of incompetents themselves.
Clearly, it is Netflix DVDs shipping from overseas where many Nations are making a concerted effort to kill our movie industry. They are very bad people and must be stopped.
he IS a dementia patient so he's reverted to his childhood. He's probably sure that big old 16mm reels are getting shipped around in the bottom of Cunard liners or some shit
This is so obvious it barely needs mention: movies & music is a core American soft power just as tariffs/sanctions are recent core American financial power. Use them easily & unjustly to find the world undermines this power.
As a film and TV professional, I can tell you LA is a ghost town. I have no idea what the numbers are but a lot of “American” films are shot abroad. This is not going to make things better. Tax incentives are the only things that has any chance on improving the US industry.
I’m still shaking my head, but beginning to understand that orange man has always wanted Hollywood to love him, so this is his attempt to control this. What a pathetic ghoul.
My guess is he's mostly trying to stick it to the Canadian movie industry. But the reality is like most offshoring, that happens because US corporations need to maximize profits so they minimize expenses by filing where costs, taxes, and incentives are more favorable.
Trump's plan is each studio buys TRUMP meme coin equal to a minimum of 5% of their domestic profits and in return they get an exemption from the Tariffs is my guess.
Trump’s entire picture of the economy comes from 50s industrial shorts he half remembers watching in elementary school. So short answer, yes. Foreign movies arrive on ships, while domestic pictures are harvested by our nation’s mighty truck farmers. https://youtu.be/aiiZKK7awRg?si=DU1p9-nyB5FAoFL1
Depends on the format but film must travel on something. Big rolls of it, usually, if its analog. I'd guess they transport them on planes though. Possibility for smuggling?
He's just gonna start saying "tariff" to everything he doesn't like. Tariff the movies. Tariff the foreign press. Tariff the immigrants. Tariff the rain.
Netflix subscriptions will have a tariff based on the proportion of streaming minutes that come from movies produced outside the US, in turn based on which scenes were filmed where and which actors are US citizens (well… the white ones).
KKKonvict 47’s racism & bigotry is consistent. In 2020, 45 lobbed a racist dig at Parasite (from SK) for winning an Oscar; and praised Gone with the Wind. https://eddmarv.medium.com/a-potus-racist-bigoted-twofer-85707c6c1946 He pushed more anti-Asian hate during COVID. Folk were silent, instead of outraged. @aajaofficial.bsky.social
In a way, he does. He probably thinks movies made outside the US are shipped here in film canisters, if he even knows that much about how movies used to be made. Now that I think about it that’s giving him way too much credit!
i’m actually now operating under the belief that trump is just doin stuff in order to stay in the news cycle (for better or for worse) a disturbing and unrelenting need for attention
The music industry better watch its step. Some songs use the word "gangster." And we probably shouldn't be listening to Canadian musicians like Justin Bieber, Sarah McLachlan, or Celine Dion, either!
Good grief. Every day provides more evidence of Trump's idiocy and stupidity.
The thing that's easy to forget is that Trump's favorite thing in the world is the entertainment industry, its where his strongest and most earnest positions are held lol.
The irony is that Trump is probably our best shot at getting a new cabinet position dedicated to entertainment (which we should have, albeit not under his control lol).
This idiot sells merch from China and Mexico, fills his poop filled pockets with money from those sales and by the way, he has 0 control over where movies are made. That's just a full diaper and Adderall talking. Also, just another distraction from what's really happening here.
Why aren’t the republicans publicly discussing his cognitive decline as the Dems did with Biden? This is the fault line. Dems need to borrow this playbook and stop all the public old/young fighting. Felonious HAS DEMENTIA!!!!
He doesn’t think. He has no idea what he’s mumbling on about at all times; just like his insistence that he looks just like Elvis (fond memories of a thousand years ago).
"We are gonna put a tariff on those big film cannisters folks. You see those things? They have them at the place where you drive in and they show the movies. We're gonna make Hollywood great again... Sylvester Stallone, we love him don't we folks. Rambo. Rocky. He voted for me twice. First blood."
No, he's pissed off over foreign films having won Oscars and other awards. The man has been pissed as hell even since foreign films made by Asians won in US competitions. His hatred of Asia is strong; he conflates all of Asia with China and all Asians with Chinese.
Plus, he hates global trade too.
He did precede and choose Putin, but there are likely some crazy stories. Yeltsin looks like the American spy, Trump feels like revenge. Would be quite the movie. Maybe that’s why he doesn’t want them to go lol
shutting down USAID didn't make everyone like him like Musk assured it would, so clearly the cathedral wasn't there, it's gotta be smuggled in in those japanese cartoons or something-
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he can get away with it. W-h-y wouldn't trump tariff, while
republicans cowardly give up their power in congress? tariff's they seem to believe do not ride on their backs, but ours and our families!!! D-E-S-P-I-C-A-B-L-E!
Foreign films attempting to infiltrate our country will be sent to Alcatraz.
OR, someone at Disney is lobbying to prevent Anime or the next Flow from eating away at their whole deal.
Literally he is everything the RW accused Biden of being except he's actively surrounded by evil sycophants so....idk.
I think he just hears shit and says shit. there is no thinking involved.
He's scared of anything he considers "foreign"
Hope that helps!
It’s a cultural revolution
https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/cze17n02gego.amp?amp_js_v=0.1&_gsa=1#webview=1&cap=swipe
The problem is, of course, that if you define all you don’t like as a National Security Threat, there are not words left to describe real national security threats.
Like the president and his sycophantic bunch of incompetents themselves.
https://bsky.app/profile/zadokallen.bsky.social/post/3lofhel2kic2l
And anime.
Georgia got more movies filmed in state (over CA/NY) w/better tax credits for studios
Foreign countries are offering better tax credit
Thunderbolts is last Marvel movie to film in ATL, among other movies 👀
GA electeds called WH for help.
GOP needs GA in 2026 elections
Seems perfectly simple.
Good grief. Every day provides more evidence of Trump's idiocy and stupidity.
dumb but strong
Is this the way to accomplish it? Absolutely not.
Donny loves CGI, but also hates computer. Man what’re we gonna do? I think we should go back to painted backdrops and wooden horses.
A nicely obfuscated step towards slavery. 🤮
Plus, he hates global trade too.
Very Kim Jong Un, right?
Yeltsin in the grocery store was a _bad lesson_, don’t you remember, children?
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