What’s filming in Georgia in January 2025?

The new year for TV and film production in Georgia is starting slowly, but new projects are forthcoming.

The Georgia Film Office has 17 active projects listed on its website as of Jan. 10, the fewest since the end of the writers and actor’s strikes in fall 2023. A year ago, the state had 28 film and TV shows on tap.

Just one major production has started up in metro Atlanta since the beginning of the new year: “Scream 7,” the seventh installment of the sturdy horror franchise that debuted in 1996. Two actors from the first “Scream” are in the cast for the seventh run: Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox. Parts of “Scream 2″ were shot in metro Atlanta in 1997.

Credit: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

Credit: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

And would-be felons beware: Fox’s ‘America’s Most Wanted” is wandering the streets of metro Atlanta.

Shows and Films set to begin in the coming weeks in metro Atlanta include, according to Productionlist.com and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), a new season of Tyler Perry’s “Sistas,” the film “Songs of the Gorilla Nation,” an HBO series “DTF St. Louis” starring David Harbour and Jason Bateman, a TV movie “Wife Stalker,” a horror thriller ‘Help,” a teen comedy “Driver’s Ed,” a Hulu series about the Murdaugh murders and a Peacock limited series “The Good Daughter” starring Rose Byrne.

Several major productions wrapped before the end of the year including the final season of “Stranger Things,” the second season of John Cena’s HBO show “Peacemaker” and “I Love Boosters,” a film starring Keke Palmer and Demi Moore about a group of female shoplifters.

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The Georgia Film Office provides an ever-changing list of active productions, but it is not necessarily complete because production companies are not obligated to update the state office.

And if a company requests the production stay off the list or asks to use a pseudonym, the film office will oblige. The only production that appears to have a false name on the Georgia film office list is “Scream 7,” which is going by the name “Scar Tissue.”

WHAT STARTED FILMING BETWEEN DEC. 3 AND JAN. 10

“America’s Most Wanted,” reality show, Fox

“Scream 7,” sequel of the “Scream” movie series

“The Ms. Pat Show,” season 5, BET+

“Married to Real Estate,” season 4, HGTV

WHAT WRAPPED BETWEEN DEC. 3 AND JAN. 10

“Black Dagger Brotherhood: Dark Lover,” Passionflix TV series

“Stranger Things,” Netflix, final season

“Double Life,” reality show, Paramount+

“Give Me Back My Daughter,” TV movie

“His & Hers,” Tyler Perry Netflix drama

“I Love Boosters,” Keke Palmer, Demi Moore movie

“Love & Hip Hop Atlanta,” VH1, season 11

“Mermaid,” Mel Gibson movie

“Peacemaker,” HBO, season 2, John Cena drama

“Poetic Justice,” feature film (unclear if this has any connection to the 1993 film of the same name)

“Single Black Female III,” TV movie

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Rodney Ho

Rodney Ho writes about entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution including TV, radio, film, comedy and all things in between. A native New Yorker, he has covered education at The Virginian-Pilot, small business for The Wall Street Journal and a host of beats at the AJC over 20-plus years. He loves tennis, pop culture & seeing live events.

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