is this real? i don’t get how this would even work. physical goods use supply chains, transportation companies, and cross borders at physical places with inspectors.
movies are like digitally distributed… so, is this like some tax added for licensing distribution rights in the US?
i don’t get how this would even work
he doesn’t either.
I’ll just let the economy nerds figure it outMathImplementation detail is forblockersthe worms in my administration with obvious financial bias.
idk how it could possibly work for streaming (other than rental/purchases) but they could just do a sales tax instead on foreign films shown in theaters or sold in physical form. have the theaters and distributors pay it and pass the extra to consumers instead.
(whether or not it will actually reflect policy is another matter entirely)
I guess you would apply the tariff on the company that buys distribution rights for broadcast or theatrical release in the former USA. Which would make it near impossible to release a foreign-produced film in there.
The intent wouldn’t be to actually collect the tariffs, it would be to stop US filmmakers from filming outside the USA.
This would devastate the US film industry… so many great shows just wouldn’t be made if they couldn’t save money filming elsewhere. Even if they could all afford it, there simply isn’t enough production capacity in the former USA if all those productions returned home tomorrow.
if the last decade has taught me anything, you can film any scene as a stand-in for any exotic locale in the state of Georgia.
as long as the scene calls for a fancy, upscale suburb, a 19 century traditionalist country farm house, or a post-apocalyptic wasteland with thousands of screaming cannibals.
So when Disney decides to move their production center from Atlanta to Germany, that’s our movie industry being stolen by Germany? So you’re going to tariff Germany or Disney? Germany isn’t exporting anything so they’re not paying. German movie companies that would be hired by Disney aren’t paying tariffs because they’re not exporting anything either. That means Disney is being tariffed to import their own movies, if you can even count that as an import. You’re helping Hollywood by making one of its biggest production companies pay extra taxes but calling it tariffs so your base doesn’t get mad. Not to mention that company just went to bat for you by coming down on Kimmel.
To be Donald Trump’s enemy is dangerous. To be his friend is fatal.
‘hollywood’ puts way more creative effort into their ‘accounting’ than they do their product. no way they’re paying a dime in extra taxes.
In a mixture of we fired all the competent number crunchers in favour of 20 y/o vibe coders named Big Balls and Hollywood accounting I fully expect to see the first reverse tariff payout where somehow importing Hulk 4: The Hulkening loses Disney 8 gajillion dollars and therefore entitles them to a tariff of -$500 million
It would be so funny if Trump extended this logic to animation and vidya and just like that, the GOP lost one of its most loyal demographics.
Trump is probably too old to know what anime is
have to use outdated terms like “japanimation”
maybe if we campaign to ban those damn woke chinese cartoons
This along with openly stating by speaker Johnson (lol Johnson), (paraphrasing) “we’re taking healthcare away from guys sitting in their mother’s basement playing video games all day”, gotta wonder how they can even keep the youth vote anymore.
GOP doesn’t really have the youth vote. They typically lose the under 30 crowd by 20 points or more in presidential elections, midterms tend to be an even larger gap between them. I think trump gained some young voters compared to normal, but still behind by 20 points.
I assume it’s the usual stupid “they’re talking about other people who happen to sound a lot like me”.
That or they exist solely in the emotional realm, and the words don’t really matter.
You might be underestimating how many Hitler Youth types there are in this country
It feels like gen z really swung things more to the right somehow idk what’s wrong with those kids
it’s polarization, they’re becoming more far left and far right. Problem for us is that the far right is holding power so they can amplify their supporters
Yeah it seems the the Rogan/Tate/Kirk etc fascism pipeline is really working on them
I’m curious if the definition of “motion picture” (movie is not a legal term) that will be used is going to include those things
The first anti-anime president.
extremely critical support
Yeah I’m sure that’s the real problem and not the studios forcing creatives to shit out rushed focus group tested trash
What?
You don’t think Marvel Superhero movie #328 is gonna be good?
how dare you. dildoman 69 is a true masterpiece.
Did you stay for the post-credits teaser featuring the long awaited portrayal of Dildoman’s nemesis’s backstory?
Those are garbage, sure, but they’re mildly entertaining garbage. And I mostly just watch them because my mom likes them and it’s a social thing.
Focus tested implies at least some planning or forethought. When these movies are being filmed they might not have a finished script according to James Gunn. It is genuinely billions being spent for some executive and a director to fuck around for a cpuple months and force a special effect studio to essentially make an entire animated movie from whatever garbage they shot.
I can’t even think of any mainstream foreign films in the US except Parasite. Wtf is wrong with this man?
Lots of Hollywood films do their filming in Vancouver. It’s cheaper because our currency is worth less.
it would be hilarious if this was interpretted as excise taxes on foreign photography and outsourced portions of production, but i expect this just means foreign-produced, not where US produced films are made.
Hollywood has truly fallen if their lawyers cant wiggle out of this
It would be so funny if this somehow ends runaway production and everything just retracts back to the TMZ.
he’s targeting American movies that film outside America. Dune was filmed in the UAE, The Matrix 4 in Germany, the Hunger Games prequel in Poland, Elvis in Australia, Avatar 2 in New Zealand, The Batman and countless marvel movies in the UK, etc.
Snow Piercer too, which I admit is a very “country and western” sort of response.
It’s not foreign films, but I guess just films with production outside of the United States? Most big productions will have shit made all over the world. How are they even going to enforce any of this lol
Some anime movies make decent cash. I think the new Demon Slayer movie is doing pretty good, for instance.
I’m sure that’s true, I just wouldn’t really call it mainstream. But I guess I’ve underestimated how many domestic US movies are made elsewhere.
raises hand
I want to do my civic duty and pay the tariffs but I don’t know how to. How do I pay a tariff on a torrented film?
Easy. Mail it to the IRS with receipts attached.
100% tariff on $0 sticker price = $0 in tarriffs to be paid
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
I didn’t pay attention to this matter, fuck the police.
chainsaw man spoilers
Spoiler tag is broken (you need to add
:::on its own line below the stuff you’re spoilering)
Well, I pay $0 for movies so I think I can eat this tarriff
just like stealing “candy from a baby”.
One of his funniest lines imo
Damn, he really didn’t like One Battle After Another
That’s domestic
Didnt he say something about doing this months ago and nobody knew how it was supposed to work? Somehow I doubt he suddenly figured out how its supposed to work.
Typical Boomer just doesn’t want to read subtitles when required but obviously has Closed Captioning turned on for Fox News even with the volume cranked to absurdity.
I hope it spurs more people to discover piracy
