Donald Trump wants to make Hollywood great again. But left to his own devices he might just make it worse. The US president directed his team last weekend to begin exploring a 100 per cent tariff on all films produced abroad, claiming that the American movie industry is “dying”. That is a showman’s take. But the sector is indeed under pressure. Between 2021 and 2024, film and TV production spending in the US fell 28 per cent. A host of recent major Hollywood films — from Avatar in 2009 to Wicked in 2024 — have been at least partially filmed outside of America. How import duties are supposed to help is, however, a conundrum.
唐納•川普(Donald Trump)想讓好萊塢重現輝煌。但如果任由他自行其是，情況可能只會變得更糟。上週末，這位美國總統指示其團隊開始研究對所有海外製作的電影徵收100%的關稅，聲稱美國電影業正在「衰落」。這是一種表演者的說法，但該行業確實面臨壓力。2021年至2024年間，美國影視製作支出下降了28%。從2009年的《阿凡達》到2024年的《魔法壞女巫》，許多近期好萊塢大片至少部分是在美國以外拍攝的。然而，進口關稅究竟如何能起到幫助作用，卻是一個難題。