Warner Bros/DC’s The Flash sped into 78 overseas markets this weekend, grossing $75M, below the $85M-$95M we saw coming into the frame. With domestic’s slow-crawl three-day included, that makes for a $139M global opening.

Everything is purpose-built on three pillars: story, technology and facilities. Virtually everything a production company could need is housed right on sight.

Georgia lawmakers began a review of state tax breaks Wednesday, with some leaders hoping to reduce breaks to lower the state’s overall income tax rate, while other officials said business tax breaks are important to recruiting industry.

A Georgia State University study released last week provides an aggressive defense of the state’s film tax credit that has fueled a massive boom in TV shows and movies and corresponding studios.

The actor, 65, will star in Kent State, a film about the May 4, 1970, tragedy when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on the Kent State University campus during protests of the Vietnam War, killing four unarmed students and injuring nine others. The movie is slated for Columbus, Georgia according to Deadline. 

INSIDE The Warren Commission will air throughout the state on Georgia Public Broadcasting Monday, June 26 at 10 pm. Check local listings.

In 68 overseas markets, Paramount/Skydance/Hasbro’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts has pounced on a $110M opening weekend. Combined with domestic, that gives the Autobots and Maximals a global debut of $170.5M, coming in ahead of projections.

As the Atlanta Business Chronicle reported last week, the City Council in Chattahoochee Hills approved the largest tract ever zoned for a purpose-built studio, Kane Studio.

The Georgia documentary Cooking Inside: From Prison to Home, directed by Brent Lambert-Zaffino, has concluded its festival run and is set to begin an educational tour. Cooking Inside depicts two men who were formerly incarcerated together as they recreate a prison meal exactly as they prepared it inside.