Georgia Entertainment and AMA Atlanta announced today the launch of SEAT | Sports, Entertainment, Art & Tourism, an event designed to bring together leaders across sports, film, brand storytelling, tourism and the arts as these sectors increasingly converge to shape Georgia’s creative economy.
In what’s being called the first registry of record for sports intellectual property (IP) around AI, a new global-digital tech company Callandor Group was formed to provide an infrastructure that ensures sports stars’ likenesses don’t run off and leave them and their sports organizations behind.
Georgia’s Camera Ready program makes filming in the state easier than ever. The program serves as a single point of contact for everything a production needs, from stages and production support to film permits, regulations and location scouting.
The Metro Atlanta Film Summit (MAFS) convened a sold-out crowd of filmmakers and industry leaders for a full day of breakouts, networking, and mainstage conversations at the YANMAR EVO//Center in Acworth.
This year’s theme, “CTRL + CULTURE = AFRICA’S NEXT CINEMA CODE”, reflects the evolving language of African storytelling in a digital, globalized world. It highlights the powerful intersection of culture, creativity, and technology as filmmakers across the continent and diaspora reimagine and take control of how African stories are told, created, shared, and experienced.
The Georgia Film Academy’s Dramatic Writing Program was developed in 2018, in part because Georgia had become a center of film and television production and needed to build a pipeline of homegrown writers. The course can satisfy an English graduation requirement and is built around four areas: genre and multi-modality, playwriting, film writing and television writing.
Bert Kreischer and his famously shirtless bod will get more airtime on Netflix courtesy of his scripted show “Free Bert,” which will return to metro Atlanta later this year for a second season.
The 26th annual Atlanta Jewish Film Festival has officially concluded, wrapping its in-theater run across metro Atlanta along with at-home streaming statewide through the festival’s Virtual Cinema platform.
The programming took place on March 13, 2026, at Limestone Rooftop inside the Cambria Hotel in Austin, Texas. The programming was designed to spotlight innovation and the convergence of the creative industries in Georgia.
The weekend is a little lighter than expected, but significantly better than last year, +65% with $86.2M for all titles. Universal’s Reminders of Him didn’t quite hit $20M with $18.2M, though it’s within the range of other female skewing movies like Don’t Worry Darling and Ticket to Paradise, and overperformed its $10M-$15M tracking.