Georgia Council for the Arts, a strategic arm of the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD), today announced that more than $3.5 million in competitive grant funding will be distributed to recipients across the state as part of its Bridge, Project, and Arts Education grants.

Despite a rich tradition of producing some of our most beloved contemporary artists—Radcliffe Bailey, Shara Hughes, Lauren Quin, and Roe Ethridge, to name just a few—the answer is surprisingly simple, and tragic.

The Columbus State University Press has named novelist Ellen Birkett Morris as the winner of its 2023 Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence.

Some of the UK’s top film and TV studios have raised concerns with Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer over a property tax bombshell that this week put the breaks on Sunset Studios’ major expansion into the British market.

The program will be extended for five years through 2030. For the first time, the credit will be refundable, meaning that companies like Netflix that have little or no state tax liability can receive cash back from the state. That change has been estimated to cost $200 million.

Missouri will soon offer tax credits to help attract the film and music industries to the Show Me State. Gov. Mike Parson has signed a bill into law that will offer the tax credits later this year and they won’t expire until in 2030, unless the legislature extends them.

Jon Gosier’s Southbox Entertainment, based in Georgia, has secured a $25 million partnership with sister company FilmHedge and is raising another $55 million from private investors — for $80 million in fresh funds to greenlight film and TV projects.

Sony/Screen Gems/Stage 6 Films/Blumhouse’s Insidious: The Red Door knocked out the biggest overseas horror debut since 2019. With $31.4M from 52 markets; this is also the best for the franchise in like-for-like markets. Including domestic, the global bow is $64M

For the first time, six fast-growing states in the South — Florida, Texas, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee — are contributing more to the national GDP than the Northeast, with its Washington-New York-Boston corridor, in government figures going back to the 1990s.

Experts share insights for Atlanta’s film and acting communities.