Atlanta Weekly Filming Roundup: ‘Powers’, ‘The Walking Dead’ and More!

Here’s your Atlanta Weekly Filming Roundup covering the week of October 18th-October 24th, including sightings for Powers, The Walking Dead and more!

Coming Soon

• Donald Glover’s FX comedy Atlanta was picked up for a full season and will film here in the near future

• Lee Daniels’ new series Star will shoot in Atlanta beginning in December and is looking for it’s (yup) stars!

• More Marvel is headed our way! Thor: Ragnarock will shoot in the city at Pinewood Studios in 2016

• Guardians of the Galaxy 2 will film in Atlanta beginning in Feb 2016 (the exact date is allegedly Feb 15th)

• Will Packer is developing a TV show for NBC called Buckhead, that will be filmed, you guessed it, in Buckhead.

• Daniel Radcliffe’s new film Young Americans is heading here to film

Currently In Production

• Signs for Sully were spotted off Sugarloaf Pkwy at Gwinnett Tech College. The production also filmed at Lenox Mall this week

• The Walking Dead has been shooting off of Kalamazoo Dr in Griffin, GA this week

• Signs for Bastards were seen on Rogers Ave in Atlanta

• Game of Silence parking spotted in deck behind Metropolis, signs pointing down 9th street from Juniper (Thanks to FanBolt’s EIC Emma). The show also filmed at Fulton County Airport in Atlanta this week.

• Containment was seen filming in Hyundai Lot in Braves Stadium (Thanks Eunice Sibrian for the tip!)

• Powers was spotted filming at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta

• Chris Evans is still shooting Gifted out on Tybee Island

Celebrity Sightings

• Scott Eastwood was in town visiting his dad on the set of Sully, starring Tom Hanks

Like father like son. Out in Atlanta on the set of my dads new movie. #Sully. Staring Tom hanks and Aaron Eckhart. pic.twitter.com/w8SoiqAhr0

— Scott Eastwood (@ScottEastwood) October 22, 2015

• Owen Wilson was seen chowing down at Ponce City Market

• Steve Harvey was a guest at Park Tavern for the Easy Bacon launch

• Oprah live-tweeted her show Belief from Rathbun’s on Monday (her new series Greenleaf is filming in the city)

Hey Everyone .. Tweeting from a bar in Atlanta with @SheriSalata OWN not in my hotel. Anything for #Belief — Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah) October 20, 2015

• The Walking Dead star Andrew Lincoln was spotted hanging out at the Oakhurst Porchfest

• Ludacris stopped by the new Marietta location of Andretti Indoor Karting & Games for a little bit of fun

Casting Calls

• The Originals is looking for some sexy individuals that could pass as vampires who want to come play

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• Sleepy Hollow needs “bodyguard types” for next week and the week after….Also, if you’re one of the sexy people who applied for The Originals post above, check this one out for SH:

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• Containment needs twin babies!
  
• Bastards, starring Owen Wilson and Ed Helms, is looking for extras that can portray “airline passengers, doctor office extras, and Applebees background extras.”

• If you consider yourself a “biker type,” The Vampire Diaries needs you!

• Gabrielle Union will be in the state filming soon and the search for her stand-in is on!
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Decoded Production Signs

• S&K- Fist Fight

• LCP- Bastards

• KIKI- Sully

• PLASS-Passengers

• HSN-Hot Summer Nights

• T2P- Neighbors 2

• FALCON- Mother’s Day

• DS1- Detours

• SF-The Walking Dead

• SH-Sleepy Hollow

• OC-Offer and Compromise

• LANTRAC- Miracles from Heaven

• HF-Home Free

• SN- Sleepless Nights

• WTM-Mena

• Scorpion- Keeping Up with the Joneses

• Element- Divergent: Allegient

• IDB- In Dubious Battle

• SAT-Satisfaction

• SRS2- Survivor’s Remorse

• BIA- Brothers in Atlanta

• SNC- Being Mary Jane

• GOS- Game of Silence

• 1159- Containment

• WHO- Finding Carter

• HCF- Halt and Catch Fire

• TOGS- The Originals

• SDS- The Game

• DM- Devious Maids

• LOC- The Vampire Diaries

• RR2- The Red Road

• Sic’Em- Powers

Miscellaneous (But Still Interesting) Stuff

• If you’re interested in getting a foot into the film industry door, there’s a new film industry training program that could be of interest to you

• 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 thanks to FanBolt Editor-in-Chief Emma Loggins,  Atlanta Movie Tours and Carrie Burns,  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 @TheJasmineAlyce 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.

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