See? The Tariffs will work.
I am going to quote FB buddy Manny on this threat because I agree with him:
People have been telling the movie industry that the movie industry was screwed since the wide angle turn to Asian markets.
Now the industry as a whole will actually have to market movies to Americans, and they literally no longer know -how-. Remember the reaction from Hollywood at large to the success of Top Gun Maverick: a collective gasp of “HUH?!”
They are so, so, sooooo freaking screwed. Disney, by far the one corporation that stands to lose the most here, is ABSOLUTELY GOATROPED.
Out of all the previews the missus and I have seen for movies to be released this year, there is only one so far that will get our butts to a movie theater: Mission Impossible 8. Same as last year, 99.999% of the rest of Hollywood’s “blockbusters” are not interesting not wort out attention even at home on streaming services. In fact, we have found ourselves watching Youtube videos of people doing stupid stuff to themselves more than multi hundreds of million Hollywierd productions and even TV series.
Maybe Hollywood will get the idea and remember that time in the past when they did the same shit and catered to the Third Reich and produced films that did not offend their sensibilities was not a nice thing to do.
The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler: Urwand, Ben: 9780674724747: Amazon.com: Books
Nose. Face. Some biting required. China may rattle their sabers, but they would lose their 'influence' if they cut Hollyweird off. We shall see.
"Disney, by far the one corporation that stands to lose the most here, is ABSOLUTELY GOATROPED."
Considering much of Disney is on the down-slope because of their full embrace of all things Woke, and fans who object are browbeaten into silence with accusations of racism, Wrongthink, and Wrongfun, yeah, they're hosed. (Look at the studio execs' response to fans panning Star Wars' "The Acolyte". TL;DR version: The show is perfect, it must be the fans who are wrong because they're sexist bigots who don't recognize genius when they see it.)
Disney still puts out the occasional good movie in spite of itself. You can tell the ones that probably won't be terrible because they aren't marketed hard. Find a new movie you've never seen advertised, and there's a better-than-even chance it won't totally suck.