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Before movies like “Magic Mike XXL,” “Gifted” or “Gemini Man” helped to put Savannah as a filming location on the map, there was the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, which had been bringing in talent and creatives alike for 22 years.
“I’m making a bet that as Georgians learn how this industry actually works, they will want to maintain it. I’m pressing ahead with our expansion in the belief and faith that wise Georgia minds will prevail.”
We can install our Starbucks coffee machine and Waterlogic water purifiers right on the sets, so all actors, actresses and staff can enjoy 100% purified water and Starbucks coffee using 100% purified water. These two services will offer participants the best quality available, right on site.
Now that Tyler Perry has become the first African-American to own a major film studio outright, he says that he plans on using a portion of the 330-acre property to house disadvantaged women and children.
This weekend saw Joker laughing away maniacally at the top of the charts while serious new contenders fell by the wayside. Gemini Man, from Paramount, took the biggest hit among these with its $20.5 million launch in third place.
Atlanta-based production rental and post house Cloud to Ground has hired Keelan Bearden to lead the production services division. Cloud to Ground’s independent rental house offers camera and audio packages, grip, electric, space rentals, and everything needed for productions.
Premier gaming lifestyle festival DreamHack returns to Atlanta for three days Friday, November 15 – Sunday, November 17, 2019, at…
One such project is “I Am Here” film short, a first-time international collaboration with the Canadian Consulate and Canadian institutions Sheridan College in Oakville and Seneca College in Toronto, along with Clayton State University in Atlanta.
Georgia’s relationship to the motion picture industry is not new. From Gone with the Wind’s sweeping presentation in 1939 to Forrest Gump, Glory, Fried Green Tomatoes, Driving Miss Daisy, and Sweet Home Alabama in later decades, blockbusters have been filmed in the state for years.
After hearing through the grapevine that he was in Ben Hill County filming a movie, I talked to Brandy Elrod (director of Tourism, Arts and Culture for the city of Fitzgerald and Camera Ready Liaison for Fitzgerald-Ben Hill County) to find out more about what’s going on there.