US EditionHialeah mayor pushes back on city portrayal in Netflix's ‘The Rip'
Mayor Calvo warns Hialeah may pursue legal action if Netflix's 'The Rip' defames the city, which is ranked among Florida's safest, despite the film's drug bust theme.
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Hialeah mayor, police chief say Netflix film starring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon make city officials, residents look bad - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports
The mayor and police chief of Hialeah are ripping the new Netflix film, “The Rip,” based on a real story, for making city officials and residents look bad. In the 2016 drug bust, former officer Chris Casiano and his narcotics team raided a Miami Lakes home, finding millions of dollars stuffed in buckets hidden inside an attic compartment. It was the largest cash seizure ever made in Miami-Dade’s history. The film, however, was primarily filmed i…
Hialeah mayor pushes back on city portrayal in Netflix's ‘The Rip'
A new film starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon called “The Rip” is taking inspiration from a 2016 drug bust in Miami Lakes that became the largest money seizure in Miami-Dade history. The mayor of Hialeah, Bryan Calvo, is pushing back on the city’s portrayal in The Rip, a Netflix movie inspired by a $22 million drug bust that took place in 2016 in Miami Lakes. In a statement, Calvo acknowledged that the film could have been shot in Miami Lakes …
The controversy continues after the premiere of the movie The Rip in Netflix in which a police story, which occurred in 2016, now becomes famous again, but for the wrong reasons; the main one: its characters do not know how to pronounce the name Hialeah. And here the story passes from the screen to local politics because after the premiere, Mayor Bryan Calvo and police chief George Fuente offered a press conference to reject the image that the f…
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