Must change Trump – American rates: Australia calls Mel Gibson to help

The film industry in America dies, claims the American head of the state. According to him, the reason is that other countries pulled filmmakers and studios with different incentives from the US. Trumps meant: an inch of 100 percent on films “coming to our country and were produced abroad”. This can also affect the business model of the American studios, because they themselves run a lot abroad to reduce costs. It is unclear how such rates should work at all, because films are not imported such as goods with a fixed price and often cross -border productions.

Industrial lawyer: “This is just nonsensical”
“It makes no sense,” said industrial lawyer Jonathan Handel in response to the announcement. Since Trump’s statements, there has been great uncertainty in the film industry. Many American productions from James Bond films to the “Mission Impossible” cinema would be admitted abroad for clearly creative reasons. “If the stunt is that Tom Cruise climbs on the Eiffel Tower, what should we do – play the reform of the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas?” Said Händel. It is “just absurd”.

The Australian film industry is closely intertwined with Hollywood since the first “Star Wars” Prequels and “Matrix” continued continuation in Sydney in the early 2000s when the Australian dollar reached a record level compared to the US dollar. In 2024, the international editions for film and television productions in Australia accounted for around half of the total editions of the industry of $ 1.7 billion (around 970 million euros), according to the Government Agency Screen Australia.

The total amount has fallen by 29 percent since the previous year, which is partly due to a strike by the screenwriter of Hollywood. “One hundred percent rates would be devastating for the Australian film industry,” Carnell emphasized, adding that the American film activities of Australia were worth around a billion Australian dollars (around 571 million euros). Carnell said that if Hollywood Studios would spend more money on filming in the United States, “their costs would rise and therefore the costs for the public”.

Gibson’s production in Italy would also be affected
Now the Australian studios hope for Oscar winner Gibson, who advises Trump as a “Hollywood ambassador”. “Hopefully Mel Gibson, one of Trump’s consultants in this area, says the president that this is a stupid idea,” says Kate Carnell, chairman of screen producers Australia Industry Association, in an interview. According to industrial media, Gibson intends to make a film in Italy this year. This would also be influenced by the American rates.

In addition to the Australian, the Indian film industry would also be seriously influenced by a customs allowance. It employs 272,000 people. The foreign cinema activa were approximately 20 billion rupees in the financial year 2024 (approximately EUR 210 million), which corresponds to a tenth of the total income, mentions the management advisor Deloitte and the Motion Picture Association Studio Association in a report.

Film producers are afraid to double the costs
Important Hollywood films with India scenes are Oscar-crowned stripes such as the Tellerwäscher-Zum-Millionär film “Slumdog Millionaire” and the Osama-Bin-Laden-Fahnungstriller “Zero Dark Thirty” and the Batman, praye-fitting “Daight-fingse. Film producers are afraid to double the costs from exporting their films to the US, where an estimated 5.2 million people live in Indian descent.