Netflix Will Invest Up To $100 Million In a NYC Production Hub (engadget.com) 36
Netflix is establishing an NYC production hub that will include six sound stages in Brooklyn and an expanded office in Manhattan's Flatiron District. "It should create 'hundreds of jobs' (including 127 executive, marketing and production development roles) over the next five years, and should foster up to $100 million in investments, according to Governor Cuomo," reports Engadget. From the report: The sound stages will also have the capacity for "thousands" of jobs, Cuomo said, although that's likely to vary widely based on what's in production at any given time. Not surprisingly, there are financial incentives attached to the move. The state is offering up to $4 million in tax credits over 10 years, although those are contingent on Netflix's ability to both create the 127 promised office jobs and keep the 32 existing positions.
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Fuck off to a Duck Dynasty rerun
That's a fact, Jack!
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Correct. I spend more time looking for shit on Netflix than I do watching shit on Netflix. The vast majority of it is just so fucking awful, and anything decent I've already seen. They even destroyed the handful of good things they had. Bojack Horseman turned into a depressing, unfunny, and unwitty cesspool or angst and forced social commentary. Voltron's last 2 seasons were a complete mess in terms of plot, character development, and resolution (oh and by they way Shiro is gaaaaaaaay!!! for no reason)
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Dude how did you not realise that anything with "Godzilla" in the name that isn't a banal American remake is going to be super absurd and super Japanese. It's why we watch the damn things!
I still prefer the old 1970s rubber suit monster ones though
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I have found ONE series I like and actually get belly laughs out of....The Santa Clarita Diet.
A bit of black humor, but to me has proven genuinely funny and entertaining.
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Does NYC really need more jobs?
Like, I don't follow this logic. Certainly, if it was an impoverished area, I would get it. But to me it seems like preventing companies from moving into your overcrowded area is a reasonable things. I wouldn't want something like the Amazon headquarters moving to my city, and adding more people.
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The parts of NYC these companies are targeting are barren wastelands. The existing buildings are the types the villain-of-the-week hides out/packages their drugs in in procedural crime dramas - semi-abandoned warehouses and factories from back when we actually produced stuff.
The overcrowded areas are all Manhattan below 59st and east of 10th avenue, that is not where these companies are going. They actually improve the situation by locating outside the CBD because they help establish reverse-commute pat
Netflix has really been producing excellent work (Score:4, Interesting)
I have to say that between Amazon and Netflix, Netflix has by far produced the most diverse set of shows, and to me the most interesting with the best writing.
I'm not just talking Stranger things, I've enjoyed a ton of stuff like The OA, Lost in Space, Death Love Robots, the list goes on with stuff I've really enjoyed - and a number of the things are series that I know I'll get more of over time.
I will say one thing for Amazon though, they have The Tick - at first I didn't like it as much as the first Llive action show, but Ben Edlund is behind the writing on the Amazon one and I've really grown to like it over the two seasons, it's probably a lot closer to the comic.
Anyway, what I'm basically saying here is whoever is doing a job selecting content for Netflix seems to have really good taste, and so the stuff this new studio puts out should be more hit than miss judging by experience to date of Netflix producing content.
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Stranger Things is pretty shitty. Even if you liked the 1980s copypasta of the 1st season, the 2nd season was a mess and just turned the tired "mysterious girl has SUPER POWERS due to EXPERIMENTS" trope up to 11. I can't imagine season 3 will be anything other than awful, especially with the child actors aging out.
The OA is pretty crappy, too. It's generic as fuck "supernatural" "sci-fi". It's about as worthwhile as Under The Dome or The Leftovers. Even if there's a mildly interesting presence, the exe
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I've never understood why Stranger Things was set in the 80's, except that someone creating or producing the show grew up in the 80's and was feeling nostalgic. It added exactly zero to the story, as far as I could tell. I seem to remember another show doing the exact same thing recently, although I can't remember what it was for the life of me. I suppose that should say something.
I partially attribute it to the folks in charge of making decisions at this level being in their forties and fifties, and as
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I don't understand why Netflix has not set up a subsidiary content acquisition system to compete with, of all companies YouTube. Netflix can basically add content it gets for free to it's line up but how do those content creators get paid with no Netflix ad revenue, they incorporate their ads into the content or the content itself is the ad.
What is in it for Netflix, well it can either stream content it pays for or content it gets for free, as long as those paying a subscription get content, what difference
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Hmm (Score:2)
...this, the same day they raised my streaming sub from $12 to $15.
Why??? This makes no sense (Score:2)
Why is NYC trying to create new jobs? Their unemployment rate is at an all time low, while housing prices are out of control. They're trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist, in a way that makes a major problem even worse. Creating even more competition for scarce housing at a time like this is crazy.