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re: Trump imposes 100% tariff on movies made outside of the United States
Posted on 9/30/25 at 6:19 pm to Seldom Seen
Posted on 9/30/25 at 6:19 pm to Seldom Seen
What a dumb frick. Once one. Always one.
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Posted on 9/30/25 at 7:39 pm to Sunnyvale
Tell your buddy to stop helping creating woke, CGI shitty movies with shitty no name actors
Posted on 9/30/25 at 7:46 pm to Philzilla2k
Posted on 9/30/25 at 8:50 pm to DavidTheGnome
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So ready for the insanity to end
It’s just getting started chief.
Posted on 9/30/25 at 11:33 pm to ATrillionaire
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Compensation is never determined by how hard someone works. Replaceability is the scale. Fry cooks work hard.
That's a lazy, boomer take. A fry cook doesn't spend years learning IATSE contracts, shot breakdowns, continuity, set safety, rigging, camera alignment or coordinating 300 people on a 16 hour day with millions of dollars on the line. crew jobs aren't "replaceable" in the same way you can't just pluck someone off the street and have them run sound, light design or script supervision.
You're kidding yourself if you think film crews are a dime a dozen. Productions shut down immediately when there aren't enough qualified crew because the entire machine falls apart. There's a yuge difference between simply working hard and working hard in highly skilled specialized roles that can't simply be filled by some teenager with a GED. Nowhere did I make the claim we were under compensated.
This post was edited on 9/30/25 at 11:40 pm
Posted on 10/1/25 at 12:37 am to PuertoRicanBlaze
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The "import" is the license to distribute a foreign-made film in the US, whether it's a theatrical print, digital DCP file or a streaming master. Studios or distributors pay the tariff when they purchase US exhibition or streaming rights.
Which would make it complicated when a studio produces a film or show for their own distribution. You have cleared up very little. This would be a tax penalty that would not actually incentive domestic production.
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The goal is to keep production jobs and post-production work in the US and a tariff structured around licensing fees gives Washington a concrete lever to encourage that.
So why not go with the actual proposed federal tax incentives? That would keep jobs in America. Studios have made it clear that it's cheaper to move a skeleton crew to Hungary and fill out the jobs with local labor than it is film in most American states. A percentage penalty is annoying, but probably still affordable. Why would the president not use a tactic that shows he cares about American jobs?
Posted on 10/1/25 at 8:29 am to PuertoRicanBlaze
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That's a lazy, boomer take.
And yours is a take that doesn’t understand economics, but then again very few people do starting with the current President. If you need government interference to “protect” your jobs then the job doesn’t add as much value as you claim.
Posted on 10/1/25 at 8:44 am to Jay Are
It’s almost like yall don’t understand the art of the deal even after all this time
Posted on 10/1/25 at 11:23 am to Proximo
Make everyone go broke while a few people get filthier rich?
Posted on 10/1/25 at 12:43 pm to Seldom Seen
Maybe this can drive some movie business back to Louisiana. Doubtful as this shithole state blew the incentive program that worked a decade ago, but this can’t hurt.
Posted on 10/1/25 at 1:21 pm to hogcard1964
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This is what I voted for.
Policy you don't understand and can't explain? Yea, that tracks.
Posted on 10/1/25 at 1:32 pm to MSMHater
It's amazing how people can never admit the person they voted for is wrong on something.
I voted for Trump, but he completely lost my trust when he promised to release the Epstein list and then said its fake and made up and is now doing dumb shite like this.
He also said he would end the Ukraine war on day 1. How's that working out?
I voted for Trump, but he completely lost my trust when he promised to release the Epstein list and then said its fake and made up and is now doing dumb shite like this.
He also said he would end the Ukraine war on day 1. How's that working out?
Posted on 10/1/25 at 1:50 pm to PuertoRicanBlaze
Thank you for the informed response.
I guess my question is will this actually drive films back to the US or result in production companies making less films overall which will inevitably cut jobs anyway because they’re “highly cost sensitive”. We really can’t economically afford for this to take a long time to come to fruition (part of the problem with tariffs in general).
And say someone does go ahead and pay the tariff to produce overseas, do they inevitably end up asking for higher movie ticket costs to offset what they’re paying? How does that potentially pan out.
I’m all for helping American industries but it feels like this scenario is going to be ripe for abuse and may backfire. Wouldn’t it be more feasible to provide greater incentives on the federal level?
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How does that help? Because it changes the math for the studios. Right now they save money by shooting overseas and then selling US rights with ZERO penalty. If the rights suddenly cost, say 25%to100% more when the work is done abroad, the "savings" disappear. At that point it's cheape or at least competitive to keep more of the production, post and crew jobs here.
Will every single film rush back overnight? No. But studios are highly cost sensitive. When the US is the world's biggest market and you make it more expensive to import foreign-made content some of that budget inevitably shifts back to domestic crews, soundstages and post houses that are collecting dust right now. Thats the whole point... tilt the incentives so American workers aren't competing with foreign subsidies and rock bottom labor costs on an uneven playing field.
I guess my question is will this actually drive films back to the US or result in production companies making less films overall which will inevitably cut jobs anyway because they’re “highly cost sensitive”. We really can’t economically afford for this to take a long time to come to fruition (part of the problem with tariffs in general).
And say someone does go ahead and pay the tariff to produce overseas, do they inevitably end up asking for higher movie ticket costs to offset what they’re paying? How does that potentially pan out.
I’m all for helping American industries but it feels like this scenario is going to be ripe for abuse and may backfire. Wouldn’t it be more feasible to provide greater incentives on the federal level?
This post was edited on 10/1/25 at 1:52 pm
Posted on 10/1/25 at 3:13 pm to Proximo
They don’t know the difference between net and gross and you expect them to understand this? Lol
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