A president shook the dominguer one hundred percent tax on films filmed abroad that they want to premiere in that country. It could be thought that it is a staunch expropriator communist, of those who proclaim a strong state that tramples the progress of their industries. But it was Donald Trump himself.
His diagnosis is that “The American film industry is dying quickly” Because “other countries offer all kinds of incentives to move away” their filmmakers and studies in the United States, which makes “Hollywood and many other areas being devastated.” “It is a joint effort of other nations and, therefore, a threat to national security. It is also a message and propaganda! We want cinema made in the United States again! “He wrote, capital letters included, in his social network Truth.
“Other countries have been stealing the films, the cinematographic capacity to the United States,” he added in an interview provided last night to the C-Span television network. “We are making very few films, Hollywood is being destroyed. Now they have an extremely incompetent governor –By Gavin Newsom– That allowed that to happen, so not only blame other countries. If they are not willing to make a film in the United States, we should impose tariffs. And not only that, because Governments are providing large amounts of money to support them financially. That, in a sense, is a kind of threat to our country. “
While it would not be the first time that Trump announces new tax and retreating, as happened with the suspended commercial tax reciprocity that established a couple of weeks after assuming, the truth is that it is that Its implementation would reconfigure the audiovisual industries throughout the northern hemisphereincluding the United States. Most of Hollywood’s main productions are filmed abroad, due to the tax benefits granted by the United Kingdom, Spain, Australia or Ireland.
For example, Ballerinathe spin-off of John Wickhe rolled in the Czech Republic; either Avatar: Fire and Ashin New Zealand. Marvel is another one of the itinerance. Although so far the movies of Avengers They filmed in Atlanta, Georgia (one of the best benefits offers the producers), the Superheroic study began to roll Avengers: Doomsday in the United Kingdom, where the new would also be filmed Spider-Man.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the head of Trump’s sudden interest in cinema is Jon Voight, one of his “special ambassadors” in Hollywood. The actor and his representative were gathering in these weeks with referents of unions and studies to see how to boost US production with some type of national incentive. Always according to the report, in that sense was the proposal that approached him to Trump, who nevertheless preferred to resort to tariffs.
