January 2016 Atlanta Filming Update: ‘Sleepy Hollow’, ‘The Originals’, and More!
What filmed in Atlanta this week? The Originals, Sleepy Hollow, and Greenleaf just to name a few! What’s heading here? Fast 8, Baywatch, and more!
From local promotional events to all those yellow signs you see around Atlanta. We have our full filming roundup for you below for January 18 – 22, 2016!
January 2016 Atlanta Filming: Coming Soon
- Fast 8 is set to begin filming in Atlanta and is hiring crew!
- If picked up, Jamie Foxx and Amy Pascal’s new series based off an upcoming crime novel (written by Atlanta-based author Thomas Mullen) may film in Georgia.
- Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween is filming in Atlanta.
- The Baywatch movie will be filming in Savannah this March and April. The film stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Zac Efron.
- Miles Teller’s latest project, Thank You for Your Service will film in Atlanta
- Edgar Wright’s new film Baby Driver will film in Atlanta (The film stars Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, and Ansel Elgort)
- It’s confirmed that the new Spider-Man will film in Atlanta
- Jermaine Dupree and Queen Latifah’s new Lifetime series The Rap Game will film in Atlanta
- Lee Daniels’ new series Star will shoot in Atlanta beginning this month!
- Guardians of the Galaxy 2 will film in Atlanta beginning in February 2016 (the exact date is rumored to be Feb 15th)
- Will Packer is developing a TV show for NBC called Buckhead, and that will be filmed, you guessed it, in Buckhead!
- Daniel Radcliffe’s new film Young Americans is heading to Atlanta to film
January 2016 Atlanta Filming Spotted: Currently in Production
- Greenleaf was spotted in Midtown (we’re pretty sure they were filming at the Civic Center
- All Eyez on Me is still filming across all across Atlanta
- The Originals is filming today at Collier Metals off Stephens St in Southeast Atlanta
- Sleepy Hollow was spotted filming on Wednesday at Olde Blind Dog Irish Pub
- Boo! A Madea Halloween was spotted filming in Midtown on Wednesday
Celebrity Sightings in Atlanta
Atlanta Casting Calls
Decoded Atlanta Production Signs
- 1159- Containment
- AEOM – All Eyez on Me (Tupac Biopic)
- AMC- A Meyers Christmas
- BIA- Brothers in Atlanta
- CAMP HERO- Stranger Things
- DM- Devious Maids
- DS1- Detours
- DV3- Shadow
- FALCON- Mother’s Day
- GOS- Game of Silence
- GL- Greenleaf
- HCF- Halt and Catch Fire
- HF- Home Free
- HP- Unknown (If you know, please let us know!)
- HSN- Hot Summer Nights
- IDB- In Dubious Battle
- KIKI- Sully
- LCP- Bastards
- LOC- The Vampire Diaries
- MARY- Gifted
- MS – Middle School: the Worst Years of My Life (Wrapped January 2016)
- OA- Overanalyzers
- OC- Offer and Compromise
- PLASS- Passengers
- RR2- The Red Road
- SAT- Satisfaction
- SDS- The Game
- SF- The Walking Dead
- SPEEDEE – The Founder
- SH- Sleepy Hollow
- Sic’Em- Powers
- S&K- Fist Fight
- SN- Sleepless Nights
- SNC- Being Mary Jane
- SRS2- Survivor’s Remorse
- T2P- Neighbors 2
- TM- True Memoirs of an International Assassin
- TOGS- The Originals
- TYB – The Yellow Birds
- ULDMP – Unknown (If you know, please let us know!)
- WHO- Finding Carter
Miscellaneous Atlanta Filming News
- Two Georgia-filmed movies come out this weekend, check out our reviews: The 5th Wave Review and Dirty Grandpa Review
- Middle School: the Worst Years of My Life has wrapped, so we hope that means that Lauren Graham is headed to Stars Hollow!
- More movies continue to film in Georgia and Louisiana than in California
- Moviemaker Magazine named Atlanta as the #1 place to live for moviemakers.
- Donald Glover describes his new Atlanta filmed FX comedy, appropriately titled Atlanta, as Twin Peaks + rappers.
- Walking Dead‘s Danai Gurira was cast in the All Eyez on Me which is currently in production in Atlanta.
- Vampire Diaries star Kat Graham was cast in All Eyez on Me as well.
- The 5th Wave spent 21.7 million in the state of Georgia!
- Find out who’s hiring in the film industry on the Georgia Help Wanted Hotline page.
- Project Casting and the GA Film & Music site both have great lists of all of the productions that are currently filming or headed here soon.
A huge thank you to all the amazing contacts I have that send in tips on what they seeing filming around town! A special thank you to Jasmine Alyce, Jennifer M, Matty R, Atlanta Movie Tours and Carrie Burns, Atlanta Filming, Creative Loafing, The Buzz, @ATLWood411, On Location Vacations, Atlanta Magazine, Jennifer Brett and @Peachyscoop for the tips!
If you have any filming location tips and/or celebrity sightings, be sure to tweet us at @FanBolt or me at @EmmaLoggins with the hashtag #ATLFilm or #AtlantaFilming and you could end up in the weekly roundup! Also, if there’s anything you’d like to see included that we currently don’t, let us know!
Be sure to check back every Friday and see where some of your favorite TV shows, movies and stars have been spotted in Georgia!
Sources:
http://www.projectcasting.com/tag/atlanta/
I worked in Atlanta a couple seasons ago on The Originals! I was amazed how many fans stood outside across the street until 2am waiting for a chance to meet one of the principal actors. Too bad for them it didn’t work out, everyone was dead tired and ready for bed!