Albuquerque Business First has a story about a new limited series being produced by Netflix at its newly-expanded Albuquerque Studios complex.
https://www.bizjournals.com/albuquer...-buroughs.html
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Streaming giant Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is shooting a new eight-part mystery series in and around Albuquerque, a few months after the company announced a big expansion at its Mesa del Sol studio campus.
Called "The Boroughs," the series stars Geena Davis, whose credits include the 1992 baseball classic "A League of Their Own," and Alfred Molina, whose acting credits include the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe film "Spider-Man: No Way Home."
The Albuquerque-based production is expected to employ upwards of 2,000 New Mexicans, with most — 1,934, specifically — being background talent. The rest of the production's employees would be made up of 275 crew members and 32 principal actors, a Thursday news release from the New Mexico Film Office estimates.
Also starring Alfre Woodard, Denis O'Hare, Clarke Peters and Bill Pullman, "The Boroughs" started production last month, Jamil Walker, a communications representative for Netflix, said in an email to Albuquerque Business First.
The series is set in a "seemingly picturesque retirement community" and follows a group of "unlikely heroes" who "band together to stop an otherworldly threat," the Film Office's release explains.
Ben Taylor would direct the pilot and several other episodes and serve as executive producer of the production alongside the Duffer Brothers and Hilary Leavitt "on behalf of Upside Down Pictures," Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, the release notes. Taylor's directorial credits include 2019's "Sex Education" and 2015's "Catastrophe," per film industry website IMDb.
Walker didn't respond to questions about a time frame for hiring and an expected net production spend.
The New Mexico Film Office also didn't respond to the same questions on hiring and spend by publishing time.
"The Boroughs" annoucement comes just over three months after Netflix unveiled a 100-plus-acre studio expansion at Mesa del Sol, a master-planned community south of the Albuquerque International Sunport.
The massive media company bought its Albuquerque Studios in late 2018, promising $1 billion worth of investment in the Duke City over a 10-year period, and doubled that investment in a late 2020 expansion announcement. It's touted $575 million worth of direct investment in New Mexico since 2019.
Netflix Studios is one of the state's three film partners, alongside NBC Universal and 828 Productions.
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Here are a few more pics, including a couple of aerial pics of the studio complex that were recently added to the DR Horton Mesa del Sol page. Netflix is currently building out the back lot facilities and another mill structure on the site.
https://www.drhorton.com/new-mexico/...e/mesa-del-sol
Here are a few new pics of the Encanto Mesa del Sol project from its listing on the Apartments.com website. The first pic is a great aerial shot which shows the Netflix Albuquerque Studios complex in the background as well.
https://www.apartments.com/encanto-a...ue-nm/0qwr8g2/
As a bonus, here's a pic of the My Market grocery store on the ground floor of the Aperture Center at Mesa del Sol that's included in the gallery linked to above for the Encanto Mesa del Sol apartments.
Here are some pics of the interior of the grocery store that I posted over at SSC last year shortly after it opened but never got around to posting here. The last pic includes the owner and operator of the store, Kiki Salcido.
https://www.facebook.com/MyMarketMDS/
https://x.com/SenPadilla/status/1646242585814630402/
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