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Hollywood Studios Strategize on How to Handle Trump Tariff Threats at MPA Special Meeting
Inside the MPA special meeting as Hollywood studios strategize on how to handle Trump's film tariff threats.
The leaders of the major Hollywood studios and streaming companies gathered on Zoom on Friday for a special meeting with Motion Picture Association chief Charlies Rivkin to strategize about how to address President Trump’s threatened film tariffs. The goal was to find a delicate way to educate the White House on the complexities of the film business, as well as the difficulty of applying a tariff on a product that is not a traditional good in the sense of a car or a hammer. Rivkin called the meeting earlier this week as the industry struggled to respond to Trump’s social media message that an 100% tariff would be slapped on “any and all” movies produced in “foreign lands.”
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