Australia, popular with Hollywood, pushes back against Trump’s 100% foreign film tariff threat

Australia still wants to make “great films” with the United States, the Minister of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday, while new prices threaten the Hollywood House of Success The matrix,, Elvis And Crocodile Dundee.

President Donald Trump announced 100% prices on Sunday for all films produced in “foreign lands”, saying that the city of Tinsel in difficulty would be better served by “Made in America” ​​films “.

The so-called “Aussiewood” has used years for years of tax alternatives and other cash incentives for years to attract foreign filmmakers under, producing a series of successes for major Hollywood studios.

Although we know little about how the prices could work, Australia's best diplomat Wong said they were likely to prove to be a flop with moviegoers.

“Our message is that we make great films together,” she told the national ABC broadcaster.

“We have films, American films, which are filmed here in Australia. Collaboration is a good thing. So let's not bothered that.”

“Crocodile Dundee”, a 1986 comedy on an Australian Bushman transplanted in New York, helped put the emerging film industry in Australia on the map in America.

Since then, some of the hottest directors in Hollywood have used Australia to film Marvel blockbusters, Impossible mission box office payments and winners as Elvis.

The prices could also disturb neighboring New Zealand, which has given its spectacular landscapes to the beloved Rings trilogy.

The boss of the New Zealand film commission, Annie Murray, said that she was still trying to disentangle how the prices could work.

“We are aware, however, it is an evolving situation and it is too early to speculate on what it could mean,” she told AFP.

The prices seem to target a commercial model favored by American studios that obtain tax loss in cinema in countries like Great Britain, Canada, Ireland and Australia.

A recent survey of studio leaders revealed that their five main promoted production locations were outside the United States.

At the beginning of this year, Trump appointed the stars of veteran Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight to bring Hollywood “bigger, better and stronger than ever”.

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