Country Icon Reba McEntire is coming to Madison later this month to began filming a new ABC one-hour drama.

Georgia has become the “Hollywood of the South” and Butts County is getting a slice of a pie worth billions of dollars in economic development for the state.

An ordinance that sets controls on Hollywood filming in Hall County is drawing concerns for being so restrictive that it might scare off some production crews.

According to movie star Burt Reynolds, Florida Gov. Rick Scott is “dumber than a peach orchard sow” for squandering the state’s film industry.

The ambition was to celebrate the contribution women make to film and television and to capture the diverse and truly eclectic range of roles occupied by women in the film and TV industry in 2017.

In an historic election that will impact Spanish-speaking actors in the United States for years to come, Telemundo telenovela performers have voted to join SAG-AFTRA.

Cocoa has been on “Tyler Perry’s For Better or For Worse”, “Ted 2”, “The People vs. O.J. Simpson”, “Tyler Perry’s Single Mom’s Club” and others.

Baxter says two students are working on the billion-dollar production right now, and he hopes to add even more soon. He says this is all part of the certificate program through Georgia Film Academy’s Certificate Program.

Pre-production is in full swing, and Principal Photography will start on March 15 for 8 days before the production moves to Madison, Georgia on March 24.