Surge TV and Jebi Films hosted a private gallery event at Kuja Studios to promote the release of season one of original docuseries, Klique.

Was Atlanta as a whole owning its moment? Hip-hop and R&B are now the most popular genres in America. These songs and artists are driving the music business. And who is driving hip-hop and R&B? I can’t see a stronger argument than Atlanta.

In PrinceNapped, the first mobile game from Atlanta-based developer Ker-Chunk Games, it’s Prince Edwin who needs to be rescued and the heroine Clara who must do the saving, vaporizing water and clearing the path for Edwin to escape.

The nominations for the 90th annual Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning, Jan. 23. Many of this year’s SCAD Savannah Film Festival films, guests and honorees were nominated.

The growth continued in 2017 with the industry contributing $137 million in economic impact to Chatham County, spread across 260 projects, including 12 feature films, 23 television projects, 13 commercials and 161 student projects, according to the recently released annual Savannah Area Film Office report.

Here’s a deal: For every dollar you spend, you can make almost $9 back. Here’s a scoop: Kentucky filmmakers become empowered to tell Kentucky stories, ensuring that the next generation of young Kentuckians stay put, adding to the economic impact and artistic flavor of the place we call home.

The GGDA’s Best in Georgia Competition encourages teams from the Global Game Jam to continue working on their games after the jam is over. The competition not only looks at what they bring to the jam, but what they can do in the weeks following.

Apple selected three teams of young filmmakers for a month-long workshop that connected the students with Apple’s professionals with creative talent.

The House of Delegates engaged in a vigorous debate about the value of West Virginia’s film tax credit and then left off on a cliffhanger.

GreenScene of Coastal Georgia is accepting short film submissions for its annual Green Screen Environmental Film Festival. The Festival will…

Last March, the first-ever tax incentive for Georgia’s music industry was passed by the state legislature. The Georgia Music Investment Act officially went into effect with the new year and now the state of Georgia is open for business.

The mother of a stuntman who fell to his death on the set of “The Walking Dead” in Georgia has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the show’s network and other parties, saying unreasonably low budgets led to inadequate safety precautions.

Kennesaw State University, Georgia State University, SCAD-Atlanta , Georgia Tech and SCAD-Savannah/Guild Hall have already registered sites for the 2018…

For its 18th year, the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival returns to local cinemas with a robust lineup of movies that showcase such themes as Jewish-American life, the Holocaust, Israeli cinema and, particularly this year, the realm of arts and entertainment.

If you’re in the mood for catching a movie or other specialty program in a cinematic setting, you’ve found the right column. Each week Film Scene takes a look ahead at the next seven days’ worth of alternative cinema events taking place around the greater Savannah area.

Georgia is now a top location for film and television production, and aspiring film workers are flocking to Atlanta for a chance to get in on the action.

As Eatonton, Putnam County and all of Georgia, begin to tap into the film industry, the PDA contacted GDEcD film specialists for suggestions about how local officials can attract film producers to Putnam County as well as prepare to accommodate what was once a predominantly west coast industry.

The federal government shutdown – aka the Trump Shutdown or the Schumer Shutdown, depending on your perspective – continues apace, as Senators head into yet another day of talking, arm-twisting and finger-pointing as they work to strike a deal.

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This is an athletic conference (competitive league) within Div II. It’s headquartered in Georgia (hence the peach name), and has 12 member schools across Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina.

An impressive cadre of artists including Carole King, Carly Simon, Melissa Etheridge, Dionne Warwick, Mary Wilson (the Supremes), the Isley Brothers, John Densmore (the Doors), Judy Collins and many others recently added their names to a groundbreaking legal filing in California seeking compensation for pre-1972 recordings from digital radio services like SiriusXM and Pandora.

The 2013 lawsuit filed by Darabont, the show’s co-creator and first executive producer, is still very much active, and the parties are eagerly awaiting a judge’s summary judgment decision determining if that $280 million case goes to trial.

There are top-rated programs in film at the state’s public and private universities along with a full-fledged film production program at schools such as Salt Lake Community College, a rarity among two-year schools.

How did this happen? After all, globalization marches forward, and staying competitive is harder than ever, right?

“Just 10 years ago, this industry generated $241 million in economic impact for the state,” Deal told lawmakers Thursday at the Capitol in Atlanta.

Compare that to West Virginia’s $5 million cap, and there’s stiff competition for films. Because of the increased competition, Ruby said, eight states have recently eliminated their film tax credits.

The company’s announcements included new deals to add more premium TV series and films to Hulu in 2018, as well as the premiere date of the highly-anticipated second season of The Handmaid’s Tale.

USTR report makes clear, online content theft undermines America’s creative economy. Illicit streaming devices (ISDs), specifically, represent a considerable and growing threat to the film and television community.

Long time TWD writer Angela Kang is taking over from Scott M. Gimple with the latter shifted over to a newly designated Chief Content Officer of the mothershow, its Fear The Walking Dead.

Finding your next big gig on a film or TV show can be difficult, but few consider the opportunities in the commercial industry.

Group said state is losing out to Georgia and Texas for Florida-based films, television shows and novellas.

Catherine Bell is an engineering PhD student working in the Virtual Experiences Lab at the University of Georgia. She works with various VR headsets and the Microsoft Kinect to build virtual experiences using Unity.

Russell Bobbitt is Marvel’s Head Property Master. He has spent more than thirty years in the industry, working as an actor, director, producer, and writer. He currently resides in Peachtree City, Georgia.

“I, Tonya” is also up for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes. It faces steep competition from “The Disaster Artist,” “Get Out,” “The Greatest Showman” and “Lady Bird.”

Bennett said the county is learning how to streamline the ability for filming in the county, and is eyeing ordinance revisions to streamline filming necessities, such as construction and certain permitting areas to be more fluid when the industry does come to the county.

The primary cause of the anticipated increase is the elimination of deductions for things like agent commissions, acting classes, and not incidentally, union dues.

Mathews is hoping to take the lessons Billups will share at the meeting to bolster support for the South Georgia Film Festival hosted by Valdosta State University’s mass media department in March.

“We want to get more of that post here in Georgia,” said Lee Thomas, deputy commissioner of the Georgia Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office. “We want to be able to compete with the Vancouvers and the Los Angeleses of the world.”

“This tragedy should serve as a wake-up call for the entertainment industry,” OSHA’s Atlanta regional administrator, Kurt Petermeyer said. “The entire industry needs to commit to safety practices for actors and stunt people involved in this type of work.”

The Georgia Film Academy in Fayette has a two-year program and graduates can get jobs making $80,000, Bonner said. 

The report follows a five-day tour of Hong Kong and China – Rivkin’s first in the region as head of the MPAA – during which he met with top industry leaders, filmmakers, and government representatives.

Don’t be fooled by the tranquil scenario below. If these trees could talk, they’d whisper of frantic horse races, Revolutionary War soldiers at camp, and Navy Seals stalking terrorists–at least in the story lines filmed here in Wilmington, NC.

SGFF is accepting 15-minute films, where everything is less than 15 minutes and there are three categories to enter – high school, college and other.

The annual three-day fest showcases a wide-ranging mix of established and up-and-coming, under-the-radar musical talent. Next year’s event takes place March 8th through 10th at various venues throughout Savannah.

In the face of a possible $4 billion deficit next fiscal year, some Republican lawmakers have called on the film-tax program to be scaled back or eliminated.

The MPAA applauds the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – under the leadership of HRH Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman – for its decision to end the prohibition on movie theaters.

At the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2018, thanks to House Bill 199, our beloved state becomes the Shangri-La of video game developers across the world.

Another slow pre–Star Wars weekend saw Coco – a nominee for the Golden Globe of Best Animated Picture –  take first place again both in the US and overseas, while James Franco’s The Disaster Artist scored big at home with a push into 840 theatres. 

Netflix has stepped up to its first major animated feature film. It will finance America: The Motion Picture, an R-rated revisionist history tale about the founding of the country.

“In general, economic research finds that tax incentives usually do benefit that targeted industry, though often at the expense of the economy as a whole. Somewhat surprisingly, only about 65 percent of the studies that I’m aware of find clear positive effects for the firms that receive the subsidies.”

Before that announcement, this year’s stunt ensemble honors nominees will be announced by SAG Awards Committee Chair JoBeth Williams and SAG Awards Committee Member Elizabeth McLaughlin.

“We can’t wait to build on the success Stephen’s achieved as a writer and producer.” said Eric Schrier, who is Presidents of Original Programming for FX Networks and FX Productions along with Nick Grad.

You can still make beautiful, engaging, high-quality films that, yes, “look like a film” without an ARRI Alexa, RED Dragon, or even a robust DSLR with a big sensor and high dynamic range, because you are the filmmaker here, not your camera.

Georgia is now the No. 1 filming location in the world, according to FilmL.A. And the media industry has had a giant impact on the state’s economy already.

“My goal is that within the next five years, women will direct and write 50 percent of what we see on our screens,” said Fran, one of the first American women to produce/direct her first feature film at age 60+.

The studio’s makeup and wardrobe rooms are located in the studio for accessibility and lockers are available for cast and crew to store personal belongings. The facility also has a drive-in door for easy access in unloading equipment.

The following is a statement from Charles Rivkin, CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), on today’s passage of H.R. 1 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in the United States Senate.

“It’s not like when we opened 11 years ago and they’d say, ‘You built a studio there? Why would you do that?’ We’ve really come a long way,” says Dana Arnold, CEO of Pacifica Ventures, which owns Albuquerque Studios. “There are ups and downs, but right now we’re on an up.”