[user104658]

Originally Posted by bots

America have priced themselves out of the market in the film and film theme music business and it is primarily because all the "workers" are in unions. Very few films use american orchestras, they go to prague or london. So in this case, it won't make film makers choose to make films in the usa, they simply won't make films because it's just too expensive

Indeed and (though the MAGA sorts will find it difficult to believe) for the mostpart, actual foreign film-makers aren't primarily making their films for the American marketplace. e.g. Japanese horror and various bits of S.Korean TV and movies have been very popular in recent years stateside but ... ... the people making them are not making them for the US, they're making them for Japan and S. Korea... they'll change nothing about how they make their films... and yet American consumers will (seemingly) end up either paying more to watch them, or not be able to watch them via US-based platforms (i.e. Netflix, Prime, etc. won't host them in the US if it costs more, or they'll up their sub fees).

There still seems to be a major misunderstanding about who pays all of there tariffs, the MAGAs genuinely believe it's the "other countries" ... they don't realise it's them as consumers.

[bots]

Originally Posted by Quantum Boy

Indeed and (though the MAGA sorts will find it difficult to believe) for the mostpart, actual foreign film-makers aren't primarily making their films for the American marketplace. e.g. Japanese horror and various bits of S.Korean TV and movies have been very popular in recent years stateside but ... ... the people making them are not making them for the US, they're making them for Japan and S. Korea... they'll change nothing about how they make their films... and yet American consumers will (seemingly) end up either paying more to watch them, or not be able to watch them via US-based platforms (i.e. Netflix, Prime, etc. won't host them in the US if it costs more, or they'll up their sub fees).

There still seems to be a major misunderstanding about who pays all of there tariffs, the MAGAs genuinely believe it's the "other countries" ... they don't realise it's them as consumers.

the other side of tariffs is that if american firms have a captive consumer base, they have no incentive to innovate and put money into R&D, so, america will very quickly lag behind the rest of the world and will be completely unable to export oversees. If that starts happening from now, the usa will be 3 years behind everyone else by the time trump leaves office

[Beso]

We have green screen now, where you can have any backdrop you could ever dream off. I doubt this is as significant as the screeching karens would have us believe.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Beso

We have green screen now, where you can have any backdrop you could ever dream off. I doubt this is as significant as the screeching karens would have us believe.

That's not why movies film where they film. If anything it's the other way round NOW (they film on non-US city streets and then edit in a US-city backdrop, shop fronts, etc).

Movie-makers don't film in the US because it's too expensive. What was said above is correct: this won't force them to film in the US, it'll just mean they don't make the film at all.

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Quantum Boy

That's not why movies film where they film. If anything it's the other way round NOW (they film on non-US city streets and then edit in a US-city backdrop, shop fronts, etc).

Movie-makers don't film in the US because it's too expensive. What was said above is correct: this won't force them to film in the US, it'll just mean they don't make the film at all.

You can do all that from a warehouse.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Beso

You can do all that from a warehouse.

Yes but if you do it in a warehouse in the US, it'll be expensive. It's not that complicated. US film-makers are making their films outside of the US because it's too expensive to make them in the US... not because of the location, but simply because the cost of doing it (on a street, in a warehouse or anywhere else) is higher. Trump wants to make it just-as-expensive (or more expensive) to make them elsewhere...

...but like I said if it simply makes it not profitable to make films, the films won't get made, in the US or anywhere else. The big studios will keep making them but they'll only make "safe" films that they're confident will make big box office returns. Smaller companies and independent studios either won't make film, or will concentrate on non-US markets.