Zachary Levi is building a $100 million dollar studio in Austin

Gotta grift for the Lord 🙏

Funny how they all want to live in Texas, but only Austin.

Small dick energy.

The rightwing Tyler Perry.

If you build it, they won't come.

Sinking tons of money building a studio sounds like a marvelous idea!

This is exactly what he needs to do to lose all of his money, piss off investors and contribute more to his mental illness.

Queue up a lifetime of aggreivances and blaming Dems and liberals over his bad decisions.

Fuck him.

No idea who he is.

No idea? Sad. It gives you quite a bit of information in the title of the article.

R8 - Laura Benanti

He needs to work all the money he got by sucking dick to get the Shazam role.

What a fucking asshole.

At least George had his minstrel kids to keep working for decades to pay off the family debt, r6. Who are this guys backers and how much of his own money has he put in to it?

It doesn't bode well if he needs "his team' to state to him the plainly obvious.

[QUOTE]“I know that there are people that would prefer not to work with me now because of my opinions. My team has let me know,”

I hope he generates Hallmark level entertainment!

Look for such important films as:

“Dodge! He Only Tells You Once.”

Or

“Tuck Me In, Daddy!” In which an inexperienced young wife moves in with her grandfather’s crypto-bro best friend.

Or

“Sinclaire; Those People” in which the protagonist wades through the brown people he sees on KOMO news.

Austin feels like a whole different country than the rest of Texas. 20 miles outside of the city, you are deep in the heart of it.

I wonder if he frequents Hippie Hollow and flaunts that big bush we all know he has.

No idea [of who he is]? Sad. It gives you quite a bit of information in the title of the article.

Not sure why it's so sad, R9. My reading comprehension is fine. I did read the article. He was in an unexpectedly big film of the sort that I never pay attention to, and he had a few year stint starring in some major US broadcast network series I never heard of. And he's a Trump supporting nut, and thinks he's going to launch an alternative Hollywood in Texas. Not sure why he's worth knowing about.

You're so smart, R16. Everyone is so impressed.

Please, regale us with more fascinating insights about things you claim to not care about and admit to not knowing about.

Bump

…why would he build a studio in a state with no tax incentive?

I’d hate-fuck the bigotry out of him

$100M studio to probably produce crypto infomercials

Texas doesn’t have the tax breaks for movies other states have. There’s a reason why Hollywood has moved to Georgia and New Mexico and not Texas.

But I’m sure it’s a scam. I’m sure he’s got some Christian investors with the pitch to make Christian family movies.

They were building a film studio in Massachusetts that was $100 million and I think they failed before it was ever finished and MA has better tax breaks.

God forgive me, but I would still love to bury my cock up his arse!

Austin is overrated. Come to Austin, see the fine homeless of downtown. Get asked for your leftover food a you leave the restaurant and stroll the fine Austin downtown and see a man jerking off in his pants. A fine, fun experience for all!

Walk late at night and be thrown in the river to your death by the Rainey Street killer, who doesn't exist according to police!

Austin? Blue Austin? Strange.

This is what happens when a bit of success and being surrounded by yes men does to your ego. Same thing with Matthew McCaunaghey.

They're not smart and they see themselves as 'disruptors'. Right.

They're never confronted about evidence in these interviews with vaccine deniers and the shit that they say.

Isn't he a homophobe?

With AI, the physical world of offices, especially studios, will be completely redundant. Hope he loses all his cash. Also, Austin is over.

[quote]God forgive me, but I would still love to bury my cock up his arse!

Don't hold your breath, Prince.

Who is his sponsor. And how many loads of the sponsor must he swallow in a week?

Never heard of him. Is he going to make MAGA films?

If you build it, they won't come.

[quote] Austin is overrated. Come to Austin, see the fine homeless of downtown. Get asked for your leftover food a you leave the restaurant and stroll the fine Austin downtown and see a man jerking off in his pants. A fine, fun experience for all!

And rub shoulders with the people who claim to have escaped California for those very reasons.

It makes me sad he's such an idiot.

He was adorable as Chuck and become hot when he began packing on muscle.

A pity I can't stand watching him now.

[quote]Austin feels like a whole different country than the rest of Texas. 20 miles outside of the city, you are deep in the heart of it.

True, but Levi lives 30 miles east in Bastrop. (You can't buy 75 waterfront acres in the Hill Country.) Plus his Texas studio plans are perhaps best described as "aspirational."

I can't see OP's post, which must mean it's a troll, even if this thread isn't one. If it isn't linked, the recent Variety article about Levi's plans. For one thing: at the ripe old age of 44, he's found a "partner" and just had his first kid! Nah, not weird at all that they've literally never been spotted together!

"As we meet at a Brentwood café in March, Levi is days away from becoming a father for the first time. He has just finished prepping for a home birth at the Ventura, California, abode he shares with his partner, photographer Maggie Keating."

[quote]Texas doesn’t have the tax breaks for movies other states have. There’s a reason why Hollywood has moved to Georgia and New Mexico and not Texas.

True, but Taylor Sheridan & McBongo are trying to reverse that. And if Texas ends up getting a true studio facility, it'll be mainly due to their efforts, not Levi's frankly lame ones with a vastly smaller amount of money to spend. That said, Sheridan already has *two* studio setups: one in Central Texas, where he shot the entirety of the most recent season of "Lioness," and one near Fort Worth, where "Landman" is filmed. (Even S2 of "1923" was filmed in and around his Central Texas ranch, doubling for Montana with a fuckload of CG mountains.)

[quote]This is what happens when a bit of success and being surrounded by yes men does to your ego. Same thing with Matthew McCaunaghey.

The difference being that McBongo is immensely successful and a Hollywood icon, and Levi's a sad, desperate closet-case whose career is already DOA outside of MAGAlandia.

R23 It was never started or the land even sold to the developer. All pie in the sky, derailed because of interest rates and the developers ability to raise the funds.

Massachusetts does have generous tax breaks for filmmakers. And half a dozen existing studios, one of which cost over $30 million and got built.

I doubt Levi will ever build his in Texas, tax breaks or not.

Austin was wonderful back in the late 80s. The technology boom was just getting started. No matter where you lived, you were only 10 miles from downtown. Saw many free musicals in the public parks; bring your blanket and enjoy. The Mexican food was authentic, and you could get a big oval plateful for about three dollars. Our outdoor pool was open all year long. Some people considered me a "Yankee", wanting to know where my belt buckle and boots were.

I worked out with a hairy, gorgeous French-Lebanese bodybuilder I would see naked at Hippie Hollow. We tended to sit together there. I would float on a raft, drinking a beer, letting the sun bathe my cock and balls. I learned I need to apply sunscreen through my own large bush, because the skin it was anchored to would still burn underneath it.

I also ran into other people I knew while at Hippie Hollow. They were naked, I was naked; it didn't matter. I hope it has the same positive energy it had back then.

He’s so fkin hot and dumb.

R37: By the late 90s, you could see that Austin "used to be fun". There were still good restaurants but the traffic was awful and a lot of things seemed overrated, like the original Whole Foods or Gilley's.

Hallelujer, praise the lordt.

I was molested in the dressing room when I went to try a pair of Levi's on

She looks fat.

I fucking LOVE Laura Benanti.

DRAG HIM, GURL!

Zach, just keep quiet. You look better that way.

I always gave him the benefit of the doubt when he had to defend his Christianity.

And he proved me wrong. Anyone super religious is going to be a crazy conservative.

R38, Hippie Hollow has tragically little goings-on at present, aside from the obnoxious Splash parties on Memorial & Labor Days. Lake Travis has been less than 50% full for several years now. I'm not sure you even *can* get there right now: it's down a steep cliff from its parking lot, though I guess you could try a water approach. Also, the entire Lake Travis area has been developed out the wazoo; nowadays you'd have multiple McMansions in an adjacent residential areas, most of which have direct sightlines to the shore.

If you're not familiar with Splash, it's basically Austin's ad hoc Pride weekends at the start, and end, of summer. First Splash is this weekend. Imagine WeHo circuit boys in Speedos and 4% body fat, and you'll get its modern-day "energy."

You might still see the occasional enormous belt buckle at some sort of event like the rodeo, but considering that purchasing real estate in Austin is usually a seven-figure investment nowadays, we don't see many rural/working-class types nowadays. South Congress might be mistaken for the Beverly Center or something nowadays, considering it has a Soho House and Hermès shop. Still common for guys, especially if they went to college in Texas: wearing Red Wing boots out at night. (I've had the same pair for 30 years now!) People wearing actual cowboy boots are usually tourists – unless they're guys in Luccheses, which is still a Texas thing. The tourists flock to Tecovas nowadays.

We do, however, still have some awesome – and queer-friendly – dive bars if you know where to look. One has a once-a-month queer country band night. And while the bougie Tex-Mex places with $8 queso or tacos – yes, meaning one taco – are as annoying as ever, locals know where to go for the cheap, legit shit. Fortunately we've managed to keep a few awesome little gems hidden from the masses.

[quote]There were still good restaurants but the traffic was awful and a lot of things seemed overrated, like the original Whole Foods or Gilley's.

I hope you meant to say Antone's or something instead of Gilley's, since it's in Fort Worth. Wouldn't want to think you were trolling! Also, WF opened their true flagship store – still its largest – in the early 2000s. It's definitely a hotspot for locals & tourists alike.

As for traffic, we're about to enter a solid decade of HELL: they're rebuilding I-35 through Austin. All of it. While tearing down the upper decks north of UT is great, it'll be an EIGHTEEN-LANE FREEWAY FFS. (And it's still a primary shipping corridor out of Mexico, but fortunately we have a toll road bypass nowadays (Texas 130).

R2, yep, same with Elon Musk

Weird how these people don't want to live among their fellow Trump voters