Lights, Chamber, IRA: Trump fits into the film industry with a new tariff threat
President Donald Trump turned to an unexpected goal on Sunday when he warned the film industry that stopped changing productions abroad, or face mass rates.
“The film industry in the United States is dying a very fast death,” the president wrote on his social platform of truth, noting that other nations are offering tax incentives to attract film production.
“Hollywood, and many other areas within the United States, are being devastated,” he wrote. “This is a concerted effort of other nations and, therefore, a national security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messages and propaganda!”
Trump said he would place a 100% rate in the films produced in other countries.
“We want movies made in the United States, again!” He wrote.
It is not clear how this would affect films filmed in multiple locations, including the United States. Nor is it clear if this would apply to television or transmission productions, which often also filmed abroad.
Rod Lamkey Jr. through News
Canada in particular can often draw American productions with a combination of tax exemptions and a favorable exchange rate, the Hollywood report said in 2023. That same report found that 171 foreign films were filmed in Canada in 2022, and most of them are Hollywood productions, along with 258 television programs, also mainly from the United States.
About 70% of Hallmark and Lifetime’s Christmas films, for example, filman in Canada, the New York Times reported in 2023.
Los Angeles in particular have seen an exodus of productions, not only for international places, but also for other parts of the United States that have attracted the industry with tax exemptions and other incentives. Even postproduction work is migrating from Hollywood, in some cases to locations abroad.
Last month, Los Angeles approved a measure to facilitate filming in the city, while the state of California is considering an increase in financial incentives for productions in the state.
“Other nations have been stealing the films, the film capabilities of the United States,” Trump told reporters when he returned to the White House on Sunday night. “I have done a very strong investigation during the last week, and we are making very few films now. Hollywood is being destroyed.”
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