There are a lot of stories right now on Donald Trump call For a “100% price on all the films that enter our country that are produced abroad”.
But let's give the price of conciseness to VarietyWho noted that Trump's Sunday evening announcement generated many questions in Hollywood, “starting with: huh?”.
Note also that Trump frequently changes any minds on things, and certainly on his pricing policies. It is therefore quite possible that his Hollywood tariff post leading to Nada.
While we are in terms of throat, also note that, unlike some of Trump's other rates, this doesn't Imagine a world where the work that has left the United States has long returned to the country. The film (and television production) remains a huge business in the United States, employing millions people.
And finally, Trump is right to note that the film (and television production) has left Hollywood for years. Sometimes he went to other places in the United States: Disney has made more than a dozen Marvel films in Georgia. “Sinners”, one of the greatest films of the year, was made in Louisiana.
But there is a clear trend in international production, driven by the drop in labor costs and tax incentives. Production expenditure in the United States dropped by 28% Between 2021 and 2024, but rose everywhere else. “Thunderbolts”, Marvel's most recent film, will also be the last filmed in Georgia in the predictable future – Most of Marvel's production has moved to London.
So what would Trump do to correct this? No one seems to have any idea.
“The leaders of Hollywood Studio rushed Sunday evening to determine what the announcement would mean for their business” The Wall Street Journal Reports. “As is often the case with Mr. Trump's statements on social networks, he was not quite clear what he was talking about”, ” The New York Times Deadpans. Studies of studios and banners like Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery was down on Monday morning.
If you take Trump's position at its nominal value, it poses all kinds of questions. As: would the prices apply to films belonging to the United States / Products or studios from around the world? Would it apply to American productions which are mainly filmed in the United States, but which have scenes shot in other countries? What about films where post-production operation, such as visual effects, is managed outside the United States?
And at most basic: how, exactly, do you tariff a film or a television program? They do not arrive in this country via cargos or planes. Customs and the protection of American borders do not register on their import.
My suspicion that sneaned is that Trump does not know it either. It's just that he seems to think that prices are the solution almost any problem.
Otherwise, if Trump was really anxious to encourage more production of films (and television), he could go there like the fact that everyone does: with tax loss and other financial incentives.
Which, in fact, is exactly the field that Trump heard that actor Jon Voight and his manager, Steven Paul, this weekend, by Bloomberg. Voight – One of the three actors that Trump said would be his “Special Ambassadors“To bring back the work in Hollywood earlier this year-and Paul would have spent time with Trump in Mar-A-Lago, and suggested a fairly normal plan:” more federal tax incentives for the production of American films and television “, which involved” developing existing tax credits and bringing those who expired “.
Voight and Paul did not offer prices, reports Bloomberg. But Trump did. So here we are. Let's see if it goes anywhere.
