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Netflix to Invest Over $1.2 Billion in Spain Over 2025-28
Made by Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos in Madrid Tuesday, the commitment reflects the extraordinary global results of standout Spanish shows and movies.
In Spain, Sarandos spoke at the U.S. streaming giant’s “world-class” European Production hub, he said, in Tres Cantos, a half hour’s drive north of Madrid where Netflix has built its biggest, 10 soundstage studio complex in Europe. Led by “Money Heist” seasons and “Society of the Snow,” Spain has scored more entries in Netflix’s Top 10s of most-viewed non-English language shows and movies ever – a total eight – than any other country in the world, beating France (5), South Korea (2), Mexico (2) and Norway (2) and Germany (1). What’s groundbreaking about “Money Heist” is that a global blockbuster could be so rampantly “local”: Latin and proud of it – part melodrama, sluiced by disruptive passion – and redolently Spanish Spanish-language.
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