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Atlanta Movie Tours allows visitors to trace the footsteps of their favorite characters! Check out Midtown Atlanta and Midtown West where The Walking Dead filmed at the Bellwood Quarry.
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The movie filming business is hopping in Atlanta! You never know who you will see and when!!
Just this past week, I saw Kevin Bacon in a SmartCar in Buckhead! (Thanks Kevin for going green and not hauling around in a big Surburban….although I’d LOVE to have one!) Anyway….
What To Expect When You Are Expecting was filmed here in Atlanta last summer, and the Lionsgate film was shot at various locations around the Midtown area including Piedmont Park and Smith’s Olde Bar. The film, which stars Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth Banks, Dennis Quaid, Cameron Diaz, Chris Rock and Anna Kendrick among others, is based loosely on the popular pregnancy manual, “What to Expect When You’re Expecting.”
The movie features four couples who are all expecting children and how they deal with the upcoming additions to their families.
The trailer cannot be embeded here, so here is a link to What To Expect When You Are Expecting! You’ll see lots of the Midtown skyline in the background, and Piedmont Park!
Via Scoop.it – Georgia Film & TV
Money talks and Georgia aims to continue throwing it around to Hollywood in order to keep actors and moviemaking within the Peach State. In fact, Georgia is one of the leading states in the country when it comes to enticing film production companies to park their celebrity trailers on red clay soil, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
That’s because the state doesn’t have a cap limiting the dollar amount a production company can save through its generous tax credits. And legislators expect Gov. Nathan Deal to sign a bill that will ensure those credits stay that way.
Continue reading on Examiner.com Georgia enticing film production companies with tax incentive credit – Atlanta Pop Culture | Examiner.com https://www.examiner.com/pop-culture-in-atlanta/georgia-enticing-film-production-companies-with-tax-incentive-credit#ixzz1r4xMsJ2N
Via www.examiner.com
Via Scoop.it – Georgia Film & TV
Queen Latifah has joined the high-profile cast of Lifetime’s Steel Magnolias, a contemporary take on Robert Harling’s 1989 feature.
In Lifetime’s modern iteration, Steel Magnolias will chronicle the lives and friendship of six Louisiana-based women who congregate regularly at Truvy’s beauty shop. The project will begin production in April in Atlanta for a premiere this year.
The telefilm, which begins shooting in Atlanta in April, also includes Alfre Woodard, Adepero Oduye and Condola Rashad among its cast members.
Via Scoop.it – Georgia Film & TV
Some of the Georgia’s top high school football prospects got a taste of Hollywood while visiting Georgia Tech this weekend.
Some scenes from the Clint Eastwood movie “Trouble With the Curve” are being filmed at Georgia Tech’s baseball stadium. The movie “revolves around an aging baseball scout (played by Eastwood), who goes on a road trip to Atlanta with his daughter to check out a potential recruit,” according to MTV.com. Justin Timberlake also appears in the film.
Via blogs.ajc.com
Via Scoop.it – Georgia Film & TV
Queen Latifah — entertainment mogul, young Oprah, and all-around bad mothereffer — has long been a fan of Miami….and may move her base of operations to Miami from Atlanta! I wonder if anyone from the ATL is trying to KEEP her here with some tax incentives of our own? Doubt it!
Via blogs.miaminewtimes.com
