Customs on films, Trump turns through! But is funding so much different? – Diepresse.com
For the first time, the US President now wants to raise tariffs to cultural products: foreign film productions. You are horrified by this in Hollywood. But there is a real core in Trump’s criticism.
As if Hollywood had anticipated it: This week the shoot for the new episode of Avengers started the shooting of Avengers, the blockbuster series of Disney Marvel Studios. The title: « Doomsday ». Last day, end of the world – after that, the partly unbelievers, partly shocked reactions in the industry to Donald Trump’s announcement, sound to be proven after steel and cars abroad with tariffs, and 100 percent. Because Hollywood is « destroyed », the US film industry dies a « very fast death » from a « concerted action » of other nations.
What does the US president mean? What exactly does he do? You puzzled, you interpret his words. He writes partly of films that are produced elsewhere, i.e. foreign products. The confused warning of a “threat to national security” is likely to aim at this, especially since these states allegedly use their films for “propaganda”. Such an expansion of the trade war to cultural products could even be all right to the US studios, one refrains from being expected to be expected.
