Georgia Entertainment Founder and CEO Randy Davidson sat down with Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Rachel Cohen Noebes to discuss the future of Georgia’s film industry as part of her larger story on the conclusion of the hit Netflix series “Stranger Things”.
Trilith LIVE, the region’s newest state-of-the-art entertainment and special event venue, announces its grand opening season, set to ignite Fayetteville with a vibrant slate of concerts, family shows, corporate meetings and community events. The grand opening season begins Jan. 15, 2026, with its first entertainment event.
Each month we bring you a list of ongoing productions in Georgia. This information is provided by Georgia.org and reproduced by Georgia Entertainment to bring you the latest, verified, productions.
Refresh for analysis It’s a very good start to the year with all movies grossing $134.7M this weekend; in fact that’s the best first weekend of a New Year post-Covid, besting 2023’s $104.2M.
The 19-year-old Georgia native stars as Erica Sinclair, the wise-cracking younger sister of Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), on “Stranger Things.” She also graduated from Fayette County High School earlier this year, refusing to miss out on real life teenage experiences.
The weekend opening for James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash is slightly higher both domestic and worldwide respectively with $89M and $347M. Sunday came in better stateside with an estimated $24.5M than the $23M Disney called it at; yesterday holding at -13% from Saturday.
In November, Dunaway Gardens announced via press release that it would be the new home for the Sundance Institute’s Episodic Lab program, bringing a little piece of Sundance to Georgia.
Some metro cities and rural Georgia towns draw so many holiday productions they gain an aka designation, like “Holiday Headquarters” for film-famous Dunwoody or “Hallmark Town” for historic Dahlonega.
LinkedIn and Comcast NBCUniversal are collaborating to provide four nonprofits with marketing support through NBCUniversal’s Creative Impact Lab and LinkedIn Ad Grants, with Atlanta’s film nonprofit RE:IMAGINE being selected as one.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and YouTube signed a multi-year deal that will give YouTube the exclusive global rights to the Oscars®, beginning in 2029 with the 101st Oscars ceremony and running through 2033.