Trump's Movie Tariff Bombshell and Hollywood’s Freak-Out

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to discuss Donald Trump’s social media post announcing a plan to institute tariffs on movies coming to America that are produced in foreign countries. They investigate whether imposing a tariff on a movie is even possible, how disastrous this could be for the movie industry, and whether this could ultimately lead to a more reasonable outcome that could actually help Hollywood. For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing…’ click here. Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Lucas Shaw Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's Amy Polar, and I'm launching a new podcast called Good Hang.
0:05.1	In preparation for that, I asked some of my friends to send in some videos and give me some advice.
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0:27.8	We're just trying to lighten it up a little.
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1:00.0	T's and Cs apply.
1:01.0	It is Monday, May 5th.
1:04.0	You could almost feel the collective spit take around Hollywood last night.
1:07.0	Little after 4 p.m., the president posted on his true social platform,
1:11.6	quote, the movie industry in America is dying a very fast death. The dying was in all caps there,
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