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Atlanta has this delusion that they are the next Hollywood just like they thought the would be the New York of the South. A bunch of Tyler Perry movies & the Real Housewives of Atlanta along with tax cuts to the film industry does not make it the Hollywood of the South.
If you want a real job in the movie industry you need to be in LA or NYC.
Atlanta has this delusion that they are the next Hollywood just like they thought the would be the New York of the South. A bunch of Tyler Perry movies & the Real Housewives of Atlanta along with tax cuts to the film industry does not make it the Hollywood of the South.
If you want a real job in the movie industry you need to be in LA or NYC.
You need to do a little more research BOBBY.............
Atlanta has this delusion that they are the next Hollywood just like they thought the would be the New York of the South. A bunch of Tyler Perry movies & the Real Housewives of Atlanta along with tax cuts to the film industry does not make it the Hollywood of the South.
If you want a real job in the movie industry you need to be in LA or NYC.
You're about a decade out of touch.
2 of the 3 top movies in theaters this week alone were filmed exclusively in Atlanta. Sound stage and on location. In the last few years, there hasn't been a single week where an Atlanta-filmed movie hasn't graced the top ten at the box office. None of these were Tyler Perry productions (which do really well in their own right).
The top 3 in question are Vacation (starring Atlanta native Ed Helms who has spoken in interviews about the pleasure of getting to come home to make that movie) and Ant Man (where star Paul Rudd has stated that he prefers shooting Atl over LA). The one we couldn't nab was Mission Impossible 5. But hey, star Tom Cruise is currently in Atlanta filming his next movie.
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You need to do a little more research BOBBY.............
There is no research to be done. If Georgia did not give tax incentives & breaks do you really think Hollywood would come calling? Florida gave those incentives too decades ago & Miami was also too be the "Hollywood" south then and when that vanished you had CSI : Miami being filmed back in LA.
Atlanta has a "niche" in the film industry which is good but don't think once those incentives disappear they won't suffer a similar fate.
Just look at how many Canadians cities that Hollywood chooses in Vancouver & Toronto over American ones in movies.
There is no research to be done. If Georgia did not give tax incentives & breaks do you really think Hollywood would come calling? Florida gave those incentives too decades ago & Miami was also too be the "Hollywood" south then and when that vanished you had CSI : Miami being filmed back in LA.
Atlanta has a "niche" in the film industry which is good but don't think once those incentives disappear they won't suffer a similar fate.
Just look at how many Canadians cities that Hollywood chooses in Vancouver & Toronto over American ones in movies.
It's way more than a niche at the point. Again, you're about a decade behind in your analysis of this. Whatever flash-in-the-pan brush with film production that happened in Florida several decades ago pales in comparison to the amount of TV and film being made in Atlanta. And that includes pre-production work like casting. Sure, LA will always have the above-the-line talent. But supporting roles get cast in Atlanta now. And they don't just swing into town for a few weeks so their production designers and set decorators can recreate a NYC streetscape in downtown Atlanta. There are massive studios being built, among the biggest in the country, with enormous sound stages and camera houses and countless on-lot condos and apartments for cast and crew. I would wager that, at this point, no city in North America - other than LA and New York - has built so much permanent infrastructure for film production (pre and post work). Not even Vancouver, BC in the 90's saw this degree of investment.
Could it all go away? Yes, eventually anything could happen. Could it all go away tomorrow? Absolutely not. In order to bring over 5 billion dollars annually to GA's coffers, they have done this right and invested in million sq ft studios and sound stages all over the state. It is so bloody far beyond "tax incentives" at this point.
I'm trying to get into the film industry, and from all my research and searching for extra casting slots, something in Atlanta always pops up. It's definitely the new Hollywood at the moment.
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