Several productions wrapped filming in the area last month. Tyler Perry's The Marriage Counselor, starring Kim Kardashian, Jurnee Smollett, Vanessa Williams and Jerry Stiller, packed up in late November after shooting scenes in Castleberry Hill, Dunwoody, Virginia-Highland, Midtown, on Moore and Decatur Streets and at Charlie Brown Airport. Parental Guidance (a.k.a. Call Me Artie, a.k.a. Us and Them) wrapped Nov. 18th after filming at, among other locations, Atlanta International School, Ocee Park in John's Creek, Dunwoody's First Baptist Church, Turner Field, and Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. My Super Psycho Sweet 16, Part 3 and Season Two of The Walking Dead also finished up early last month.
Meanwhile, Denzel Washington's movie Flight, also starring John Goodman, Don Cheadle and Melissa Leo, recently shot scenes at Atlanta's Marriott Marquee, St. Josephs Hospital and the St. Regis in Buckhead. Production is currently scheduled to conclude on Dec. 8th.
Atlanta-based McGee Street Productions has been filming the Hallmark movie Crew Nine (a.k.a Crew Six) at Patterson Dairy Farm on Highway 166 and other locales in Douglas County. Based on a true story about girls in a juvenile detention center fighting fires at the facility, the movie stars Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry McGuire, Boyz N the Hood) and Q'orianka Kilcher, and is slated to wrap shooting on December 16th.
The USA network's pilot On We Go will be filming in Atlanta Dec. 5th through 14th. The single-camera comedy stars Nathan Lane as a struggling Broadway actor who looks like Lane but isn't, and who puts his career on hold to move back to Texas to care for his ailing dad. Cheyenne Jackson and Ken Jenkins (Scrubs) also star.
According to Nigel Lythgoe's Twitter account, auditions for the ninth season of So You Think You Can Dance, for which he serves as a creator, producer, director, writer and judge, will be held at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta on January 5th. Last year's winner was Marietta's Melanie Moore.
According to The New York Post, Oprah Winfrey will film an episode of the upcoming OWN reality series, Lovetown USA in Kingsland, Georgia. The show aims to match locals in what the production company's press release describes as "the biggest dating challenge in TV history." Matchmaking experts will set up shop in the town for 30 days and involve the entire community in the process of setting up residents with each other. In addition to helping townsfolk find love, the series will look at "the effects [looking for love] can have on the DNA of one American community." Mega-barf.
The National Geographic Network will tape an episode of its newest show, America's National Treasures, in the Savannah History Museum on Dec. 5th. The show's goal is to discover items such as family heirlooms that help tell the history of our nation.
Also shooting in Savannah is the independent psychological thriller When the Bough Breaks. Not much detail other than the flick is slated to wrap in January.
Game of Your Life, formerly known as Gamers, the computer-themed drama that filmed in Georgia earlier this year, airs on Friday, December 2 on NBC. The made-for-TV flick stars Lea Thompson (Back to the Future), Nathan Kress (iCarly) and Titus Makin, Jr. (Glee).
