US President Donald Trump | Photo Credit: AP
Donald Trump threatened for tariffs on foreign-made films reduces tension between European and American film industries and dominates the conversation at the Cannes Film Festival this week.
The US President has added a trade war in the list of concerns of the region that already included competition from streaming platforms.
The difficult commercial approach already hard for big screen owners and filmmakers was quite dark last Sunday when Trump said he wanted a 100-per cent percent tariff on films produced in foreign land.
Even if most observers feel that the proposal is unnatural, it risks the risk of destabilizing an industry that is highly global and depends on open trade.
“This will be one of the big issues in the ear,” Eric Marti said to us. Based Media Measurement Agency Comskor. He said that Ted Sarandos-Ne also focused on the brain, co-CEO of another American leader-Nenae. Sarandos recently stated that cinema -boing “was an external idea for most people”, pointing to the fact that the number of spectators worldwide has not overturned since the Kovid -19 epidemic.
From Tuesday, festival directors, actors and distributors in Cannes will try to understand Mr. Trump’s intentions and his Hollywood advisors, actor John Woight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone.
Mr. Trump’s tariff is part of a picture of growing tension between Europe and America on Salvo film and TV industries as the former reality TV stars returned to the White House in January. As part of his ultra-nationalist “Make America Great Again” agenda, Shri Trump’s Republican administration also has the European Union rules that protect and promote European cinema in their crosshare.
Regulations take many forms, but usually include measures such as taxing taxes on cinema tickets to fund independent filmmakers, forcing quota or domestic products for European or non-English language presentations.
Published – May 13, 2025 10:01 AM IST
