Netflix To Invest $1 Billion In Mexico Over Next 4 Years (reuters.com) 37
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The chief executive of streaming giant Netflix on Thursday announced a $1 billion investment to produce some 20 films and TV series in Mexico annually over the next four years. Speaking at President Claudia Sheinbaum's morning press conference in Mexico City, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos said he looked forward to entering more partnerships with producers in the Latin American nation. Sheinbaum said the investments in the film industry should produce many jobs beyond immediate production needs, such as hospitality for actors and crew members, fashion designers and also spur tourism. "It's an industry that gives a lot of mileage to the economy," Sheinbaum said. "It's not only important for Mexico to be seen in the world, but also because of the economic development and jobs generated by a production."
Language Barrier (Wall?) (Score:2)
Sounds like I've got around five to six years to learn the language. Anyone know the Spanish word for "gulf"?
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Sounds like I've got around five to six years to learn the language. Anyone know the Spanish word for "gulf"?
Golfo.
The Mexican term for the area between Mexico and Canada is El Gulfo de Tontos.
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Plot Twist with a Twist of Lime - They’re going down south to film Sicario 3; Day of the FAFO.
(Accounting) ”So, let me get this straight..those 200+ huge dudes armed to the teeth standing around outside ‘randomly’ in 16-man platoon sized groups..the guys that look like they can bench press the bus they rode in on and behave exactly like active Navy SEALs..you want me to record THAT under ‘Geek Squad’? Seriously?”
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I would imagine a fairly sizeable portion of that billion will be spent on blow. Did I say blow? I meant "local community investment."
Blow? Did you say blow?
OK, so you might have just got done binging a few lines from Keeping up with the Narcos, but this isn’t the ‘80s.
Wouldn’t be surprised if the Pee Diddler Generation of Hollyweird is mainlining fresh-pressed baby dolphin blood for a high these days, while sucking on an Ozempic vape pen.
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They'll always have the option of hiring the Mexican soap stars. Lots of pretty people on those shows, and sometimes they're much better actors than the American equivalent.
Shovelware (Score:2)
Remember "Shovelware" that consisted of blister packs of a half-dozen CD-ROMs containing crappy software?
This is the 21st Century version of Shovelware.
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Remember "Shovelware" that consisted of blister packs of a half-dozen CD-ROMs containing crappy software?
This is the 21st Century version of Shovelware.
You're making the critical assumption that these films will be for American (erm... white) audiences. There's 500 million native Spanish speakers and 80 million L2 speakers, probably a lot more if we start counting "high school" level of Spanish.
Mexico is quite happy to have a Colombian or Chilean telenovela shot in Mexico, what they want to achieve is being similar to that bit of Vancouver forest that is featured in almost every TV series, because it's it's cheap to film there and they're set up for it
Just the beginning (Score:1)
To the outside world the USA looks like a person who has stopped taking their medication. Unstable and impossible to deal with. But hey no more of that gay DEI stuff am I right?
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The DOGE audits have so far accomplished three things.
They've shown that the "auditors" are completely clueless about auditing.
They've shown that the people who hire them are incompetent and stupid.
They've made a lot of people from the camp that elected the auditors cry louder and louder that their own "grift" is disappearing.
Ah, I almost forgot, the top DOGe promised to steal 60% of the "savings":
“There’s even under consideration a new concept where we give 20% of the DOGE savings to American citizens and 20% goes to paying down debt,” Trump said in a Miami Beach speech
https://nypost.com/2025/02/19/... [nypost.com]
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Ah, I almost forgot, the top DOGe promised to steal 60% of the "savings":
“There’s even under consideration a new concept where we give 20% of the DOGE savings to American citizens and 20% goes to paying down debt,” Trump said in a Miami Beach speech
https://nypost.com/2025/02/19/... [nypost.com]
With an interpretation like that, the only thing you forgot was to take your meds. How the FUCK is giving BACK a portion of non-constitutional unjustified taxation stealing to you? This isn’t the fucking Clinton’s here. You act like Elon is broke and desperate for money. And what, you think every major Too Big To Fail mega-corp funneling 99% of their profit through an Ireland tax haven isn’t theft? Trillions not taxed properly while every other taxpayer pays the price? Fucking please
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a portion of non-constitutional unjustified taxation
It seems someone is, indeed, off their meds.
You act like Elon is broke and desperate for money.
Impossible, with over 13 billion in real money that he's received from your taxes, he's doing fine.
Trillions not taxed properly while every other taxpayer pays the price? Fucking please.
You mean all those tax breaks that trump is granting to them? Sure, you pay the price.
Now please, have 300 drops of valerian and relax.
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Its tax-loving deluded citizens like you that will literally fight to return the status quo. Because “orange man bad”.
I just love how you defend the former lunacy. The concept of no taxation without representation is over two-hundred fucking years old. It doesn’t take medication to understand why we need an audit. It takes morals and a 3-minute history lesson. The IRS certainly remembers how to audit you.
Two questions. Or you’re part of the problem. Plain and simple. If someth
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We have audits. You just refuse to believe it. You start a-priori with the idea that there are trillions in fraud, then are frustrated that it's not found. Well guess what, Musk didn't find the fraud either. Remember, Tesla paid $0 in taxes that years, with either means it's a failed company with no revenue, or else they're cheating the American public.
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Elon is good at marketing, so much that you believe a lot of these lies. Those satelites he launched are for his Starlink service that is not very popular. SpaceX has not done anything NASA has not already done. It's not innovating it's just taking that into a private route. Musk is pissed off that NASA went with his competitor to get the astronauts home because that's what the budget allows (congress could vote them more money but that feels unlikely). Musk is in essence a blowhard, which is why he ge
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Yes, it's increasing quickly. The next president is going to need to order an investigation, but we both know that the people responsible will have pardons and their stolen assets will be out of domestic law enforcement's reach.
Yeah, that's why pro-Americans are pissed that the anti-Americans recently fired all the Inspector Generals. So there won't be any auditing for at least 4 years. If it's
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Yup a family farm goes bankrupt and they get a $2000 check from Trump with the memo "thank you for your service".
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DOGE is most definitely NOT finding fraud. What they are finding is data that they can't figure out, and instead make up bullshit to fool the public. There are not 150 year old people getting social security checks. What they had was most likely a list of everone who ever signed up social security. But they're too stupid to know that, they've got twenty somethings with next to no job experience (ie, not the best of the best, or even the best of the worst) trying to do their first ever attempt to mine da
Spaghetti Westerns (Score:2)
Spaghetti Westerns could make a comeback.
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Wouldn't these be Taco Westerns?
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Wouldn't these be Taco Westerns?
Legit spit my coffee out laughing. Thanks for that laugh. I didn't need this keyboard anyway.
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Is Netflix trying to break into the rich market of Wagnerian telenelovelas and gameshows with scantily clad women?
Dunno, but I do know one thing. They’re probably still pissed at themselves for not capitalizing on that whole Netflix and Chill moniker, given what the OF platform is pulling in during these fantastically immoral times.
Psst. (Score:2)
Import tax (Score:1)
25% Import tax on foreign made movies incoming.