Just as the film industry is getting back to its feet, it’s facing yet another potential setback: tariffs. President Donald Trump has been busy in his first hundred days back in office, but the bulk of his work has seen him cracking down on foreign imports and exports across the board. Now, he’s turning his gaze to movies, declaring his intentions to save the American film industry from “DYING a very fast death.” His grand plan includes a 100% tariff on films produced outside of the United States — which, ironically, could end up hurting Hollywood’s biggest movies.
It’s only been a few days since Trump unleashed his ire on Hollywood, so the specifics of his plan are still murky at best. There’s no telling if his mandate will focus only on films imported from countries like South Korea or India (countries whose films do great stateside), or U.S. productions that take tax incentives from foreign locales. Whether his administration can even enforce these kinds of limits on films at all remains an even bigger mystery. While Hollywood scrambles to decipher Trump’s latest threat, here are the American productions produced abroad that could be in jeopardy.
