The industry is just as powerful as ever, bringing new projects to our city every month. Atlanta’s positively buzzing with little yellow filming signs pollinating our street corners.

I vetoed I think 16 different dam projects all over the United States which aroused a great deal of animosity and also condemnation among members of Congress and Chambers of Commerce and so forth.

Last fall, Pinewood Studios Group hired away Frank Patterson, dean of Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts, as president of its Atlanta studios.

Almost 100 tourism professionals descended on Woodstock this week for the annual three-day Georgia Regional Visitor Information Center Conference.

“We’re trying to incentivize people to move out of Atlanta and into rural Georgia,” Rep. Trey Rhodes, R-Greensboro.

Is Charter Communications entering the content business? Kind of, it seems, with a deal announced this morning.

With a maximum screen brightness of 2000 nit, on-screen details are clear and sharp, making fine-tuning a breeze. The monitor is equipped with dual microSD card slots to record footage and supports H.264 and H.265 video for 30 fps and 60 fps playback.

Last year, Georgia hosted nearly 250 productions — but “host” is the key word. These shows might film in Georgia, but the money, the concept and the above-the-line talent still come largely from Los Angeles or New York.

Georgia film director Fran Burst-Terranella’s first feature film, The 12 Lives of Sissy Carlyle, was the Opening Night Film at this year’s Milledgeville Film Festival.

The new two-year agreement was reached in the early evening hours of April 20.