Paramount Pictures eyes moving from CA to TX

No thanks, those Commifornians can stay right where they are.

I can understand why they would want to leave California. The "Blue State Exodus" is real.

But like others have said, leave your woke political views behind. That's the #1 reason why you want to move in the first place.

All studios should bail completely from CA. Not only will taxes be lower, the studios will get incentives to move to plenty of states.

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They are bluffing & it’s a negotiation tactic.

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This makes sense. Otherwise you would just start with some smaller studios test the waters and build out from there.

Then, once you have enough built, you just shut the doors in CA.

Not sure about Texas, but there’s already infrastructure in Georgia and Tennessee. Most films are done outside of California already. The cost to film in California is already prohibitive (permits, labor, etc.), a studio isn’t going to lose as much as you think. If Paramount goes I could see other studios go as well. The only one that won’t is Disney.

Texas doesn’t need Paramount. Stay in California. You people made your own damn bed. Lay in it and leave ours the frick alone.

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All studios should bail completely from CA. Not only will taxes be lower

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Not if they bring over all their idiot employees and contractors who voted for the dumb shite currently happening in CA. They’ll screw up the tax codes in TX and GA.

Here is the issue.....

Ticking Fees: Paramount faces mounting "ticking fees" (costing millions of dollars daily) owed to Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders due to merger delays caused by an antitrust lawsuit led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta.Bond

Demand: Paramount recently asked a federal court to force California and other opposing states to post a nearly $1.9 billion bond to cover these delayed transaction costs.

Liberal AG states say it will reduce competion.

Wait, so no one has a problem with Disney gobbling up everything and spreading their wokeness.

But Paramount wants more Landman material produced......and we cant have that.

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(3) if Paramount did move, TX should prepare for a huge influx of leftists

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reported 18,600 employees as of December 31, 2024, reflecting a decrease of about 3,300 employees (-15%) compared to the previous year according to SEC filings and company reports

That popped up on copilot, not as many as you think

Can you imagine that legendary studio lot sitting abandoned? Or the Warner Lot? Or Universal? I can’t wait for that billionaire tax to pass. That state may actually cause such an exodus, it eventually goes red.