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Trump always hated foreign movies - I remember him disparaging an Academy award winning movie purely because it was non-English language. Wonder what prompted t

Trump always hated foreign movies - I remember him disparaging an Academy award winning movie purely because it was non-English language. Wonder what prompted this outburst - the success of Ne Zha 2 (china bad), or No Other Land (can't say Palestine)?

nsriv 1y ago
This proclamation and his desire to reopen Alcatraz may be linked to the fact that PBS in Palm Beach aired "Escape from Alcatraz" last night. Presumably the tariffs on foreign movies came from his annoyance at channel surfing. https://bsky.app/profile/garyalexander.bsky.social/post/3lofg3fkghk26 https://bsky.app/profile/garyalexander.bsky.social/post/3lof...
- lawn 1y ago
  That's a more logical explanation than all these "4D chess" theories out there that try to sane-wash Trumps actions into a coherent strategy.
- deleted 1y ago
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- Phui3ferubus 1y ago
  > Sign-in Required > This user has requested that their content only be shown to signed-in users. Oh great, a Twitter replacement that implements worst of it's predecessor features.
  - nsriv 1y ago
    I got the warning when I shared, but I think it's ostensibly a security/privacy measure that users can toggle on and off. Anyways, here's a more direct source that should be publicly accessible, the prior was my first encounter with it. https://bsky.app/profile/robertandrewp.bsky.social/post/3log46xj5nk2q https://bsky.app/profile/robertandrewp.bsky.social/post/3log...
cool_dude85 1y ago
It's something that I think has been bubbling up for a while. I've heard a lot of complaints from people in and around the industry, and the complaints are a lot less about Ne Zha 2 and more about stuff that used to be filmed in Hollywood being filmed in Canada instead for cost purposes.
- datavirtue 1y ago
  Cool, whatever organic market activities need to take place to make products cheaper is ok by the real gods of sacred capitalism. Trump is acting more and more like an irrational communist dictator each day.
  - cool_dude85 1y ago
    I think tax credits in other countries have a lot to do with the consideration here, so it's not like a free market paradise situation as-is.
rafram 1y ago
I had never heard of Ne Zha 2, but a quick search shows that it only had a limited release in the US and made a tiny $20 million at the box office. Unlikely that Trump is making decisions based on that.
- brohee 1y ago
  What is your source, I get $2 billions at the box office, which is indeed a triumph.
  - rafram 1y ago
    That’s globally, not in the US. It was barely released in the US at all.

nsriv 1y ago

This proclamation and his desire to reopen Alcatraz may be linked to the fact that PBS in Palm Beach aired "Escape from Alcatraz" last night. Presumably the tariffs on foreign movies came from his annoyance at channel surfing. https://bsky.app/profile/garyalexander.bsky.social/post/3lofg3fkghk26 https://bsky.app/profile/garyalexander.bsky.social/post/3lof...

lawn 1y ago
That's a more logical explanation than all these "4D chess" theories out there that try to sane-wash Trumps actions into a coherent strategy.
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Phui3ferubus 1y ago
> Sign-in Required > This user has requested that their content only be shown to signed-in users. Oh great, a Twitter replacement that implements worst of it's predecessor features.
- nsriv 1y ago
  I got the warning when I shared, but I think it's ostensibly a security/privacy measure that users can toggle on and off. Anyways, here's a more direct source that should be publicly accessible, the prior was my first encounter with it. https://bsky.app/profile/robertandrewp.bsky.social/post/3log46xj5nk2q https://bsky.app/profile/robertandrewp.bsky.social/post/3log...

cool_dude85 1y ago

It's something that I think has been bubbling up for a while. I've heard a lot of complaints from people in and around the industry, and the complaints are a lot less about Ne Zha 2 and more about stuff that used to be filmed in Hollywood being filmed in Canada instead for cost purposes.

datavirtue 1y ago
Cool, whatever organic market activities need to take place to make products cheaper is ok by the real gods of sacred capitalism. Trump is acting more and more like an irrational communist dictator each day.
- cool_dude85 1y ago
  I think tax credits in other countries have a lot to do with the consideration here, so it's not like a free market paradise situation as-is.

rafram 1y ago

I had never heard of Ne Zha 2, but a quick search shows that it only had a limited release in the US and made a tiny $20 million at the box office. Unlikely that Trump is making decisions based on that.

brohee 1y ago
What is your source, I get $2 billions at the box office, which is indeed a triumph.
- rafram 1y ago
  That’s globally, not in the US. It was barely released in the US at all.