Make Hollywood big again. Trump puts foreign movies to cost twice

Any film produced outside the US will be taxed 100% to the entry into the country. A triumph for Hollywood and a blow to the rest of the world.

Trump is a fan of Hollywood. It is a “fantastic but very troubled,” he said as he consecrated movie stars Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Hollywood Sylvester Stallone.

“They will serve as special enclosures to me to bring Hollywood, which has lost a lot of business in the last four years to foreign countries, back – bigger, better and stronger than ever!” He said at the time.

Now the US president has gone further to make the industry “stronger” – It will tax the movies not produced in the country 100%.

“The film industry in the United States is dying quickly“, Writes in“ Other countries are offering all kinds of incentives to attract our filmmakers and studios out of the United States. Hollywood and many other areas in the US are being devastated. It is a joint effort of other nations and, therefore, a threat to national security“.

The US broke their film production by 26%, with new competitors such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom. Still, the industry is still high in the global scenario, with 12.80 billion euros of inwards recorded in 2022, according to.

However, it was to clarify What is an American movie, And if films will also be taxed, for example, produced in the US and a foreign director – this is the case of two films that are in the Top 3 of the Ticket, Avatar and Titanic record holders, both produced in Hollywood by Canadian James Cameron.

On the other hand, one does not notice what happens in the case of films such as Deadpool & Wolverine, Wicked and Gladiator II, American productions, but recorded abroad.

A Chinawhich recently surpassed the US in the box office volume, already took in April a like In the face of the US, limiting the number of American films with permission to enter the country.

For film critic Eric Deggans, Trump’s measure will not only damage foreign industry but also the US. Other countries can respond with the imposition of tariffs on American films, he explains, which makes it “harder for these films to make profits abroad.”