Our "ally" in the USA just bazooka'd the UK film industry

[Andrew Reid]

100% tariffs on American films which aren't all shot in the US.

100% tariffs on all foreign imports and Netflix production.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz01kx3yrmvo

https://news.sky.com/story/donald-trump-announces-100-tariff-on-non-us-movies-as-film-industry-dying-13362069

Proper details sketchy but looks bad.

But all par for the course when your public votes for a thuggish fascist dictator.

[eatstoomuchjam]

There's been some discussion on this here today.  The main takeaway is that nobody even understands what it means.  How in the fuck can you put a tariff on a film?  It doesn't even make sense.  And what is a "foreign import?"  If I drive across the border to Canada, shoot 3 minutes of footage, and add it to a 90-minute film that was otherwise shot and edited in the US, what's taxed?

FWIW, it also would be a torpedo to the Canadian industry - and I suspect the tariffs were partly driven by spite at Canada for voting so strongly against his agenda.

Anyway, the major studios are going to hate this.  Aside from reducing costs by producing abroad, if other countries retaliate in kind, International returns on films are going to crater - and that's a huge percentage of their profits.

[Emanuel]

That guy either lives in another world and time, or he makes us all feel like we do.

[KnightsFan]

Do you think it applies to ad revenue collected from YouTube videos shot in another country? What about ad revenue from ads shot in other countries? Does Google pay the tariff on their ads, or does the advertiser pay it when they sell a product?

Do you think it's about what is in the shot, or camera placement? Ie if I stand on the US side and film something across the border, is it a US shot or not? What if I place a giant mirror across the border and film it, giving the exact perspective of the camera being placed on the other side?

37 minutes ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

If I drive across the border to Canada, shoot 3 minutes of footage, and add it to a 90-minute film that was otherwise shot and edited in the US, what's taxed?

Well Canada is the 51st state, so no tax. Obviously.

[ND64]

In his world view globalism is good if it lets him have access to foreign real estate market, otherwise its evil.

[Andrew Reid]

3 hours ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

There's been some discussion on this here today.  The main takeaway is that nobody even understands what it means.  How in the fuck can you put a tariff on a film?  It doesn't even make sense.  And what is a "foreign import?"  If I drive across the border to Canada, shoot 3 minutes of footage, and add it to a 90-minute film that was otherwise shot and edited in the US, what's taxed?

FWIW, it also would be a torpedo to the Canadian industry - and I suspect the tariffs were partly driven by spite at Canada for voting so strongly against his agenda.

Anyway, the major studios are going to hate this.  Aside from reducing costs by producing abroad, if other countries retaliate in kind, International returns on films are going to crater - and that's a huge percentage of their profits.

It's absolutely unhinged isn't it?

 

[BTM_Pix]

Does this mean that those specialist art films his wife made back in the old country will now have a 100% tariff ?

 

[MrSMW]

8 hours ago, BTM_Pix said:

Does this mean that those specialist art films his wife made back in the old country will now have a 100% tariff ?

 

Special exception as she made them pre 1945.

[Ilkka Nissila]

I think the solution is to have distribution channels independent of the USA. Create your own streaming platforms for content made regionally and also internationally (among movie-producing countries that don't go into trade wars with each other). This way the market becomes much more healthy and less dominated by a small number of current players that are very large. Of course I understand that funding can be an issue, but such platforms could gather public financing (either via subscriptions that are a bit larger than the big platforms' fees initially, or via government or intergovernmental support from tax money). The streaming costs that a platform incurs are dependent on the quantity of content  and if the focus is on quality, this shouldn't be a huge issue.

 

[mkabi]

Sounds like North Korea…

[newfoundmass]

He's very dumb.