“This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda!” the president said in a post on Truth Social.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said: “We’re on it” in a post on X.
It is common for both large and smaller films to include production in both the US and other countries.
Incentive programmes for years have influenced where movies are shot, increasingly driving film production out of California and to other states and countries with favourable tax incentives, including Britain.
China has ramped up its domestic movie production, culminating in the animated blockbuster Ne Zha 2 grossing more than $2bn (£1.5bn) this year. However its sales came almost entirely from mainland China.
Trump has long voiced concern about movie production moving overseas.
US film and television production has been hampered in recent years, with setbacks from the Covid-19 pandemic, the Hollywood guild strikes of 2023 and the recent wildfires in the Los Angeles area.
Film and television production in Los Angeles has fallen by nearly 40% over the last decade, according to FilmLA, a non-profit that tracks the region’s production.
The group’s annual survey of executives, which asked about preferred filming locations, found no location in the US made the top five, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Separately, Trump in another post on Sunday said he had ordered former notorious prison Alcatraz – now a popular tourist spot – to reopen for America’s “most ruthless” criminals.
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