President Donald Trump turned to an unexpected target on Sunday when it warns the film industry to stop moving productions abroad – or massive rates.
“The film industry in America dies from a very rapid death”, the president wrote on his social truth Website, noting that other nations offer tax incentives to attract film production.
“Hollywood and many other areas in the United States are devastated,” he wrote. “This is a concerted effort of other nations and, therefore, a national security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda! ”
Trump said he would place a 100% price on films produced in other countries.
“We want films made in America, once again!” He wrote.
It is not clear how it would have an impact on films filmed in several places, including the United States. It is not clear either if this would apply to television and / or to streaming productions, which are also often filmed abroad.
President Donald Trump speaks with journalists after landing Marine when he arrived on the southern lawn of the White House in Washington, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo / Rod Lamkey, Jr.) Via Associated Press
Canada in particular can often attract American productions with a mixture of tax lounges and a favorable exchange rate, The Hollywood Reporter Noted in 2023. This same report revealed that 171 foreign films had been shot in Canada in 2022, most of them being Hollywood productions, as well as 258 television programs – also mainly from the United States.
About 70% of Hallmark and Christmas Lifetime films, for example, are filmed in Canada, the New York Times reported in 2023.
Los Angeles in particular has seen an exodus of productions, not only for international locations but also in other parts of the United States which attracted industry with tax loss and other incentives. Even Post-production works migrate Out of Hollywood, in some cases in places abroad.
Los Angeles last month adopted a measurement To facilitate the shooting of the city, while the state of California envisages Increase in financial incentives for state productions.
“Other nations have stolen films, the realization capacities of the United States”, ” Trump told journalists While returning to the White House on Sunday evening. “I did very strong research during last week, and we are doing very few movies now. Hollywood is destroyed.”
He attacked the governor of California. Gavin Newsom As “roughly incompetent”, saying that it “allowed it to happen”.
