“I have two studios in my district. They’re both doing well,” said Rep. Ray Garofalo, R-Chalmette, citing studies by the lieutenant governor’s office which say that the tax break generates $1 billion to $2.2 billion in economic activity in Louisiana every year.

While the film office has been highly successful in helping make Georgia a leading hub for movie and TV productions, it hasn’t been as successful with the music industry, said Mala Sharma, president of Georgia Music Partners, the state’s leading music industry advocacy organization.

Blade, the latest movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), is getting ready to start filming this month in Atlanta, Georgia. The project, which has faced no shortage of challenges in development, will film at Tyler Perry Studios.

News of the strike, which takes effect in a few hours, came late Monday after the guild’s negotiations with the AMPTP failed to reach an agreement on a new film and scripted TV contract. It’s the WGA’s first strike since the 100-day walkout of 2007-08.

With this worldwide feat, the video game movie adaptation scored other points. The Super Mario Bros. Movie became the fourth film to join the $1 billion club since the COVID-19 pandemic – Spider-Man: No Way Home, Jurassic World: Dominion and Avatar: The Way of Water.

Raine Harkins always had an affinity for film production. Inspired by the classics like “The Godfather” and “Pulp Fiction,” his desire to create and tell stories began at a young age, but Harkins’ path to the industry was not linear.

Doug Steiner, the chair of Steiner Studios — which runs 30 sound stages in the Brooklyn Navy Yard — said the state needs to keep boosting a growing industry. “The pilot that reaches 30,000 feet, he doesn’t turn off the engine,” Mr. Steiner said.

Company 3 Senior Colorist Jill Bogdanowicz recently completed work grading John Wick Chapter 4. She has handled grading duties on the John Wick series since Chapter 2, which also happened to be when Dan Lausten joined as cinematographer.

Georgia State University’s School of Music hosted a weekend of all things Sync, the art of combining songs with moving images, featuring some of the top music supervisors in the industry. 

Georgia continues to be a hub for movie and TV productions, but most of these are filmed in Georgia and developed outside the state. The Atlanta Film  acknowledges and showcases Georgia’s home-grown filmmaking creativity, while also focusing on features and shorts from around the world.