ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) – A lot of states have Georgia on their minds relating to attracting movie corporations working within the Peach State – away from us and over to them.
However these on the Atlanta movie scene say Georgia is and can proceed to be a high filming vacation spot.
“I don’t wish to diss on different southern states however I believe as an general bundle, we actually have every thing and our incentives are an enormous a part of that,” Atlanta Movie Society’s Linda Burns advised CBS46.
Georgia has been working to entice TV and film producers since 2005 – when former Governor Sonny Perdue signed a beneficiant tax incentive program. Since then, the tax credit score for manufacturing corporations has solely elevated – now as much as 20% with an additional 10% if the movie consists of the “Made in Georgia” emblem of their credit.
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The tax credit score for Georgia productions is 20% with an additional 10% if the movie consists of the “Made in Georgia” emblem of their credit.(Rachel Polansky)
However Burns stated it’s not simply incentives that make Georgia so particular.
“We don’t have one iconic look. You may make it appear like New York. You may make it appear like L.A. You may make it appear like a small city. You may make it appear like a giant metropolitan metropolis,” Burns added.
It seems Georgia’s efforts have paid off. Within the fiscal yr 2021, 366 productions had been filmed within the Peach State with $4 billion in direct spending going into Georgia’s financial system.
In fiscal yr 2021, 366 productions had been filmed within the Peach State with $4 billion in direct spending going into Georgia’s financial system.(Rachel Polansky)
Different states are taking discover – like New Jersey.
“Georgia is the largest participant on the East Coast,” stated Darryl Isherwood, who leads the New Jersey Financial Improvement’s movie and digital media efforts. “We’d be silly not to take a look at what they’ve executed. However we provide a greater deal in a sequence of incentives which can be capped at extra accountable ranges.”
In 2018 and 2020, New Jersey reinstituted a 35% tax incentive for movie and digital media manufacturing and desires to construct a brick-and-mortar manufacturing trade like Georgia’s however at ranges which can be capped. Georgia’s movie tax incentives don’t have any cap.
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A complete of 31 states now have tax credit designed to carry productions to their state. Michigan has handed a 40% tax credit score, whereas New Mexico has already lured the favored Netflix sequence “Stranger Issues” from Georgia to metropolitan Albuquerque.
About 9,000 New Mexico residents work within the state’s movie, tv, and digital media trade. Based on the state, a 2021 financial affect examine indicated the trade generated greater than $1 billion in financial output. (The New Mexico Movie Workplace declined a CBS46 interview request, saying the workplace was short-staffed.)
Louisiana’s movie trade might lastly have the soundness it was searching for 5 years after the state of Louisiana restored a 25% tax credit score for motion pictures being filmed right here. Final yr, the movie trade spent greater than $1 billion in New Orleans and the town is on observe to interrupt that file in 2022.
“There are extra productions within the metropolis than ever earlier than and there seems to be no slowing up,” New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell advised KVUE Fox 8. The New Orleans Movie Workplace’s Carol Morton additionally advised the station that since January 1, productions have spent $435 million within the metropolis.
As Hollywood movie prices started hovering within the Nineteen Nineties, different nations started passing tax credit to lure movie corporations exterior the U.S. Hollywood and the Movement Image Affiliation started lobbying Congress to offer monetary incentives to spur home movie manufacturing.
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In 2004, as a part of the American Jobs Creation Act, Congress included an addendum that offered rapid tax write-offs for home movie manufacturing. That spurred states resembling Georgia to offer their very own tax incentive packages.
The Georgia Leisure Business Funding Act was handed by the Basic Meeting in 2005 and signed by Gov. Sonny Perdue. It offered a ten% tax credit score for manufacturing corporations that spent cash within the state. Three years later, that tax credit score was elevated to twenty%, and an extra 10% was tacked on for any movie that included the “Made in Georgia” emblem in its finish credit.
By the numbers: Georgia movie trade
No cap on the movie/ TV tax credit score program
In fiscal yr 2021, 366 productions had been filmed within the state, represented by 21 characteristic movies, 45 unbiased movies, 222 tv and episodic productions, 57 commercials, and 21 music movies.
In fiscal yr 2021, the movie and tv trade set a brand new file with $4.1 billion in direct spending on productions within the state.
In fiscal yr 2021, Georgia doled out $1.2 billion in movie and TV tax credit. That was 40% larger than the state’s earlier file, $860 million, which was set in 2019.
Georgia was the primary state to permit filming in the course of the pandemic.
“The largest threats to the trade are some people within the state senate,” stated state Rep. Ron Stephens (R-Lyons), who was a co-signer of that 2005 legislation. “They consider taxpayers aren’t getting the bang for the buck and that we’re freely giving an excessive amount of to the trade. They wish to cap the credit score and sundown the credit score, which can kill the trade.”
“While you cap a tax credit score, you’re capping prosperity,” Stephens stated. “It received’t work.”
“It’s arduous to say what the trade will appear like in 20 years,” stated Lee Thomas, deputy commissioner of the Georgia Movie, Music & Digital Leisure Workplace. “You see the proliferation of all this new expertise and the worlds of gaming or melding with characteristic movies and tv. Once we take a look at movie and tv and gaming, they’re simply turning into as one.”
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Meeting Atlanta is a 135-acre mixed-use actual property advanced centered across the studio trade on the former web site of the Basic Motors plant in Doraville.
The signature element of the Meeting Atlanta growth is the 43-acre Meeting Studios advanced that includes soundstages, manufacturing places of work, warehouse and mill buildings, studio bungalows, occasion house, and a parking deck. Subsequent to the Meeting Studios advanced is Third Rail Studios, a film and tv manufacturing facility spanning seven acres that opened in 2016, and that Grey acquired in September 2021.
Researchers at Georgia Southern University’s Institute for Water and Health have launched a collaborative pilot project in Marion, Alabama, to address aging water infrastructure, promote workforce development, and advance environmental justice through community-based research and training programs.
Researchers at the Institute for Water and Health (IWH) at Georgia Southern University initiated a new project in Marion, Alabama, to address the city’s aging water infrastructure and its impact on human health with a focus on community-based research, workforce development and environmental justice.
The pilot project in Marion, Alabama, is a collaborative effort between Georgia Southern and the University of Alabama. IWH Director Asli Aslan, Ph.D., is the principal investigator (PI) and Lacey Huffling, Ph.D., from Georgia Southern’s College of Education, and Lanna Nations, director for education and outreach for the Alabama Water Institute at the University of Alabama, are co-PIs.
In partnership with the city of Eastman, Georgia, the project includes an internship program for next-generation water operators and a peer mentorship program for current water managers. Project leaders seek to improve communication and foster trust between local authorities and residents, contributing to long-term environmental health and equitable access to safe drinking water.
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Aslan sees workforce readiness as a critical component to maintaining standards in water management.
“Nationwide, community water systems are managed by specialized professionals to ensure safe water every time we turn on the tap,” noted Aslan.
According to her, about 50% of water operators working at these facilities will retire in the next decade, but only 10% are expected to be replaced. Training the next generation of water operators and developing leaders for rural water systems is a matter of national security.
“The Institute for Water and Health is committed to launching a regional program to equip future water managers with the necessary skills to ensure safe water for all,” Aslan continued. “This pilot project will lay the foundation for this goal and aims to expand the program throughout the southeastern United States.”
The project is funded by Alabama Power and Partnership for Inclusive Innovation, a Georgia-based program that funds and supports networks through resources across businesses, research universities and government entities.
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To learn more about this project and other IWH research and educational programs visit here or email [email protected].
A trend that Georgia will need to break to be successful in the college football playoffs.
The Georgia Bulldogs are tasked with going up against Notre Dame in the college football playoffs in the Sugar Bowl. A battle between two of the sport’s biggest brands and one that will have to of college football’s best defenses on the field. That also means offensive success will have to be earned in this matchup but there is one offensive trend Georgia will need to break in order to be successful in the playoffs as a whole.
With Georgia expected to be without starting quarterback Carson Beck, the offense will likely be more predicated on running the football with Gunner Stockton in the mix. Stockton himself can add to the run game but getting the ground game going has not been Georgia’s strong suit this season.
Georgia ranks 98th in the country for rushing offense, averaging 129.2 yards per game, 4.2 yards per carry on an average of 30 attempts per game. Some of that can be attributed to Georgia being banged up at running back this season. Trevor Etienne has missed multiple games this year, Roderick Robinson didn’t play his first game until the final week of the regular season and Branson Robinson got hurt against Auburn earlier in the year. That has left Georgia at times with true freshman Nate Frazier and walk-on Cash Jones leading the charge.
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The Dawgs have been efficient enough for the run game to not be a massive problem and at times the rushing attack has been productive, just not at the level of consistency that Georgia would like it to be at. All of that will need to change during the playoffs if the Dawgs have any hopes of winning their third national title in four years.
Whatever happened to the old fanshots section? I hadn’t really planned on writing a whole post, just providing a link to an article that summarized all of the reasons ND really should be considered the favorite in the Sugar Bowl. So here I am having to actually write out an entire post. Oh the life…
Georgia entered the season with all the pomp and circumstance you’d expect from a team fresh off two national championships in the last three years. Ranked #1 and everyone’s favorite pick to three-peat, they kicked things off in dominant fashion by dismantling a supposedly strong Clemson squad in Week 1. The “ESS-EEE-SEE! ESS-EEE-SEE!” chants were deafening. But then came Kentucky.
In a shocking turn, Georgia barely scraped by with a 13-12 win over the Wildcats. Yes, Kentucky. A game marred by an overturned Pick-6 that could have flipped the result and an offense that looked completely adrift, the Bulldogs survived more than they won. And it didn’t get better from there.
The following week in Tuscaloosa, the Dawgs looked shell-shocked from their near miss. Alabama, despite their own issues, came out swinging and stormed to a 28-0 lead before Georgia could even blink. While the Bulldogs managed to put points on the board later, the damage was done, and the Tide rolled on. Looking back now, with Alabama’s glaring flaws becoming more evident, that loss casts an even darker shadow over Georgia’s season.
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Then there was the Ole Miss debacle and the marathon against Georgia Tech on Thanksgiving. Four overtimes to beat Georgia Tech is not the stuff of legends—it’s the stuff of memes (and this coming from a Jackets Alumn). These games solidified what was already becoming painfully clear: Georgia is not playing like an elite team this year.
All of this underscores a significant downturn for a program with sky-high expectations. The Bulldogs’ talent pipeline and championship pedigree might keep them competitive, but this season has revealed cracks in their armor. Whether it’s a temporary blip or the beginning of a larger issue remains to be seen, but for now, Georgia’s struggles serve as a reminder that even dynasties can wobble.
Of course, in true SEC fashion, rival fans will have their fun. (Yes, we see you, “Roll Toilets.”) But for Georgia, it’s back to the drawing board—and maybe a long, hard look in the mirror.
Now that I have my official word count, I can get to the link I meant to originally post:
Georgia vs ND Season Stats
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I made a comment on a thread recently that the only reason Vegas has UGA as a 1.5 pt favorite right now is simply because of their name. If you look into any major stat, either simple or advanced ND comes out on top in just about every category. Here are a few that really will tell the tale IMO:
Yards per play
Notre Dame: No. 13 overall: 6.64 yards per play.
Georgia: No. 45 overall, No. 8 in the SEC: 6.11 yards per play
Total defense (yards allowed per game)
Notre Dame: No. 8 overall: 295.3 yards allowed
Georgia: No. 35 overall, No. 9 in the SEC: 336.5 yards allowed
Scoring offense
Notre Dame: No. 4 overall: 38.8 points per game
Georgia: No. 29 overall, No. 5 in the SEC: 33.2 points per game
Scoring defense
Notre Dame:No. 3 overall: 13.8 points allowed
Georgia: No. 21 overall, No. 7 in the SEC: 20.4 points allowed
Notre Dame holds clear advantages over Georgia in several key areas, making a strong case for their superiority this season. Offensively, Notre Dame outpaces Georgia by a considerable margin, both in production and efficiency. On defense, while the gap isn’t as pronounced, the Irish still hold a significant edge, with more consistency and impact across all phases.
What truly sets Notre Dame apart, however, is the sheer number and quality of their dynamic playmakers on both sides of the ball. Whether it’s explosive skill players on offense or disruptive defenders capable of flipping a game, the Irish roster appears deeper and more versatile. Meanwhile, Georgia is navigating a transition at quarterback with a sophomore at the helm—an undoubtedly talented player but one still finding his footing in the big moments.
It’s worth noting that advanced stats, which we know Hayden will dive into soon, may shed even more light on the nuances of these comparisons. For now, though, the eye test and baseline observations highlight a team in Notre Dame that feels more complete and prepared to execute at an elite level. Just some food for thought as we gear up for the deeper analysis.
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