Filmmakers love shooting at Atlanta landmarks including Turner Field, the Atlanta Botanical Garden, the Georgian Terrace and St. Regis hotels, the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre and the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center.
When it’s time for interior work, productions have a slew of studios to choose from.
Among the most prominent is EUE/Screen Gems, a sprawling complex at the site of the former Lakewood Fairgrounds. It features 10 stages with a combined 138,000 square feet of production space. Two sound stages offer more than 30,000 square feet of column-free space, handy when productions like football-themed “Necessary Roughness,” a USA show that has filmed there in the past, need lots of wide-open spaces.
Other projects to film there include Lifetime’s “Devious Maids,” BET shows including “The Game” and “Second Generation Wayans” and movies including “Flight,” “The Internship” and “The Watch.”
“We’ve got 33 acres and we’re using the majority of that space,” said spokeswoman Susan Dosier. “We’re in talks with people constantly. A lot of large films may be looking for space a year or year and a half ahead of time.”
Other area studios include:
- Atlanta Film Studios Paulding County in Hiram, where projects have included the Jackie Robinson biopic “42” and AMC’s pilot “Halt & Catch Fire”
- Mailing Avenue StageWorks in Grant Park, where the movie “Last Vegas” filmed last year and where “Necessary Roughness” now films
- Raleigh Studios-Atlanta in Senoia, which has worked with numerous projects including “Mama Flora’s Family,” “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Killers” along with hit AMC series “The Walking Dead”
- Atlanta Filmworks Studio in northeast Atlanta, which just opened and is in talks with several projects including a television show set to start filming in August. Studio officials weren’t able to discuss specifics.
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