{"id":2431003,"date":"2025-05-05T13:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T17:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rob-lowe-lamented-cost-of-hollywood-filming-before-trump-tariff-news\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T13:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T17:06:12","slug":"rob-lowe-lamented-cost-of-hollywood-filming-before-trump-tariff-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rob-lowe-lamented-cost-of-hollywood-filming-before-trump-tariff-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Lowe lamented cost of Hollywood filming before Trump tariff news"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frob-lowe-lamented-cost-of-hollywood-filming-before-trump-tariff-news%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2431003&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses President Donald trump&#8217;s recent declaration of a 100% tariff on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-slaps-100-tariff-on-foreign-made-films-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"... on foreign-made ... - Washington Examiner\">foreign-made films<\/a>, highlighting concerns regarding the economic viability of Hollywood. this decision follows remarks made by actor Rob Lowe, who criticized the lack of tax incentives offered by California, which he believes drives filmmakers away from the state to more financially favorable locations. Trump blamed international competition for Hollywood&#8217;s decline rather than local policies, suggesting a need for action to revive the industry. <\/p>\n<p>Despite it&#8217;s challenges, Hollywood remains a vital part of the U.S. economy, employing over 2.3 million people. Trump&#8217;s tariff move may exacerbate competition as filmmakers consider locations outside of California, with Toronto and the UK emerging as popular alternatives. Following the discussion initiated by Lowe,California&#8217;s Film Commission recently approved a record number of tax incentives,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/1000-soldiers-and-500-marines-deploying-to-border-trump-plans-to-send-thousands-more\/\" title=\"1,000 Soldiers and 500 Marines Deploying to Border, Trump Plans to Send Thousands More\">indicating ongoing efforts<\/a> to make the state more attractive to filmmakers. the article reflects a broader concern regarding the future of the film industry in America amidst increasing competition and evolving economic circumstances.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump foreign movie tariff move comes after Rob Lowe warned of &lsquo;criminal&rsquo; costs of filming in California<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2113901\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President Donald Trump&rsquo;s announcement that a 100% <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"tariff\">tariff<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/economy\/3400585\/trump-slaps-tariff-on-foreign-made-films\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">will be levied on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >foreign-made movies<\/a><\/a> comes a month after <em>West Wing<\/em> actor Rob Lowe sounded the warning on the costs of filming in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114452117143235155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">lamented the state<\/a> of Hollywood, which he said is dying a &ldquo;very fast death.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/economy\/3400585\/trump-slaps-tariff-on-foreign-made-films\/\">Trump slaps 100% tariff on foreign-made films<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3400540\/rosie-odonnell-trump-cognitive-decline\/\">Rosie O&#8217;Donnell suggests Trump is in &#8216;cognitive decline&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3400406\/lady-gaga-rio-brazil-concert-bomb-plan-suspects-arrested\/\">Suspects arrested over plan to bomb Lady Gaga concert in Brazil: Police<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>But rather than blame the policies of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), he instead blamed a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deficit-hawks-look-to-white-house-to-make-good-on-trump-agenda-budget-cuts-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Deficit hawks look to White House to make good on Trump agenda budget cuts - Washington Examiner\">concerted effort&#038;rdquo<\/a>; by other nations to woo filming away from Tinseltown.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Lowe, however, blamed Los Angeles and California leadership for offering no tax credits.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jRp5DWy7c3U&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thewrap.com%2F&amp;source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">podcast interview<\/a> with his former <em>Parks and Recreation<\/em> co-star Adam Scott, Lowe said, &ldquo;There are no tax credits, so like, all those other places are offering 40%. And then on top of that, there&rsquo;s other stuff that they do.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And then, that&rsquo;s not even talking about union stuff,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s just tax, economics of it all, so it&rsquo;s criminal what California and LA have let happen &mdash; it&rsquo;s criminal. Everybody should be fired.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Lowe explained to Scott that his Fox game show, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox.com\/the-floor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"The Floor\"><em>The Floor<\/em><\/a>, films in Dublin, because it is cheaper to fly everybody involved in the show to the Irish capital than it is to film it on a Hollywood lot.<\/p>\n<p>Scott asked Lowe if he believed they would be shooting <em>Parks and Recreation<\/em> abroad right now if the show were still in production.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;One hundred percent, we would be. We&rsquo;d be in Budapest,&rdquo; Lowe responded.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sheryl Berkoff, left, and Rob Lowe arrive at the 11th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony on Saturday, April 5, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss\/Invision\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A week after Lowe and Scott&rsquo;s interview was released, the California Film Commission approved a record 51 movies for tax incentives, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/record-51-films-approved-in-latest-round-of-california-tax-credits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">according to the <em>Wrap<\/em>.<\/a> In October 2024, Newsom <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/10\/california-tax-credits-increase-gavin-newsom-1236159331\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">announced plans<\/a> to supercharge California&rsquo;s tax credits for movies from the current level of $330 million annually to $750 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/economy\/3400585\/trump-slaps-tariff-on-foreign-made-films\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>TRUMP SLAPS 100% TARIFF ON FOREIGN-MADE FILMS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bob Sallady, Newsom&rsquo;s senior adviser for communications, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/10\/california-tax-credits-increase-gavin-newsom-1236159331\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">told <em>Deadline<\/em><\/a>  in the wake of Trump&rsquo;s movie tariff post that &ldquo;we believe he has no authority to impose tariffs under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, since tariffs are not listed as a remedy under that law.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood continues to be a major part of the U.S. economy, accounting for more than 2.3 million jobs in 2022, according to data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motionpictures.org\/advocacy\/driving-local-economies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Motion Picture Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3400567\/trump-directs-agencies-rebuild-reopen-alcatraz-federal-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>TRUMP DIRECTS AGENCIES TO REBUILD AND REOPEN ALCATRAZ FEDERAL PRISON<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United States remains the top filming hub by production, with $14.5 billion in 2024, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/prodpro.com\/blog\/2025-tv-film-outlook-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">ProdPro,<\/a> but that number is down 26% from 2022, and a survey of executives regarding their preferred locations for 2025-26 listed Toronto; the United Kingdom; Vancouver, Canada; Central Europe; and Australia as their top five.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/trump-sylvester-stallone-mel-gibson-jon-voight-ambassadors-hollywood-1236276088\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">announced he was appointing<\/a> the actors Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone as &ldquo;special ambassadors&rdquo; to Hollywood, calling on them to bring investment back to the &ldquo;great, but very troubled place.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jRp5DWy7c3U?si=wc1q8zX9JC5xQ3x5\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2113901\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2113901\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s 100% tariff on foreign films follows Rob Lowe&#8217;s warning about high filming costs in California<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3119,"featured_media":2431004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/rob-lowe.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[38152,4361,54641,50406,3634],"class_list":["post-2431003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-film-industry","tag-hollywood","tag-rob-lowe","tag-tariffs-2","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/rob-lowe.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431007,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431003\/revisions\/2431007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2431004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}