While other industries may be struggling to return to post-pandemic levels, Georgia’s television and film industry was in full swing this past fiscal year. The entertainment industry spent $4.4 billion thanks to Georgia re-opening more quickly and production companies relocating here.
“The last 12 months have been busier than ever at the OFS/Gwinnett Studio Campus. In July of 2020, we came out of the COVID shutdown with our biggest television commercial tenant (KIA) since we started licensing space to the film industry in 2012 – you have likely seen one of their spots between innings of a Braves game,” said studio manager at OFS and Gateway85 CID board member Mike Reams. “We also had our first music video production last August (Lil Baby’s Errbody). We also hosted some feature films that had been forced to stop production in March – Netflix’s Red Notice (Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot), Marvel/Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Samaritan (Sylvester Stallone). We rolled into 2021 working with another Netflix feature (Day Shift w with Jamie Foxx and Snoop Dogg) that wrapped production in June and also with a major Marvel feature that is scheduled for release in 2022. The Marvel team will be with us for a few more months and a second major Marvel film is also set to start work here in August, so it is no surprise that FY21 was a record year for the Georgia film industry and I will be shocked if FY22 does not top it, easily,” Reams added.
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