Scheduled to begin shooting later in 2012 is Trouble With the Curve starring Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams. Eastwood portrays an aging baseball scout with failing eyesight who embarks with his daughter (Adams) on a final road trip to Atlanta to scout a hotshot prospect. It's the feature-length directorial debut of Eastwood's Malpaso partner Robert Lorenz, who's served as assistant director on many of Clint's films, including Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River and Blood Work. A bit of trivia – Curve is the first film starring Eastwood that he has not directed himself since1993's In the Line of Fire.
The Denzel Washington flick Flight filmed scenes at the Gwinnett Detention Center before wrapping in December. Reports by several media outlets stating that William H. Macy is starring in the film are incorrect. Perhaps Bruce Greenwood has been mistaken for the star of Fargo and Showtime's Shameless.
Neighborhood Watch, with Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Rock 100.5's Regular Guy Larry Wachs, is set to wrap January 19th. Yup, you read that last name right. Apparently a nude Wachs is featured in some sort of zany orgy scene. Do they want people to pay money to see this movie, or don't they?? Maybe I'm just bitter 'cuz they rejected me for the part, but I'm clearly better looking and more qualified – why, I film at least seven orgies at my house every month.
Coma, starring James Woods, Geena Davis, Richard Dreyfuss, Lauren Ambrose and Ellen Burstyn, is slated to wrap here on January 25th.
Roger M. Bobb, who started the Atlanta-based Bobbcat Films after leaving his post as Executive VP at Tyler Perry Studios in 2011, will direct and produce Raising Izzie for TV's GMC (Gospel Music Channel). Production begins in Atlanta in March. The script, from David Martyn Conley, tells of two orphan sisters and a teacher who changes their lives. The made-for-TV movie is scheduled to air in July.
Cranking up production on January 10th in metro Atlanta is the second season of VH1's hit series Single Ladies. Shooting is slated to last through October. However, don't look for the return of star Stacy Dash. EW.com says the star left the series "to spend more time with her children in L.A." Denise Vasi (USA's White Collar and All My Children), will play a new single lady named Raquel. VH1 says the second season will air in the summer.
A Procter & Gamble production called Crossing Paths will begin shooting in January in the Peachtree City area. No word yet on what network this is for.
MTV recently announced three cast additions to their series Teen Wolf which has been filming in the metro area – Michael Hogan (Battlestar Galactica, Red Riding Hood), Stephen Lunsford (Private Practice) and Daniel Sharman (Immortals, The Nine Lives of Chloe King).
The AMC reality TV show JJK Securities will continue filming its first eight half-hour episodes in Ringold, Georgia through April 15th. AMC says the show, slated to air in the fall, will revolve around employees of a family-owned private security firm in rural Georgia and is described as a "Southern workplace dramedy." And someone was paid to come up with that idea.
Author, comedian, radio personality and game show host Steve Harvey will soon add daytime TV talker to his resume. His new project, a comedy show with talk show elements, will be filmed in the metro Atlanta area and is slated to begin airing in the fall of 2012. Family Feud, also hosted by Harvey and filmed in Atlanta, was recently renewed until 2015.
Need proof that 2011 was a busy year for filming in Georgia? Here are the scheduled opening dates for some of the films recently shot here: Joyful Noise (Jan. 13th); Good Deeds (Feb. 24th); Wanderlust (Feb. 24th); The Three Stooges (April 4th); American Reunion (April 6th); The Wettest County (April 20th); What to Expect When You're Expecting (May 11th); Neighborhood Watch (July 27th); The Odd Life of Timothy Green (Aug. 15th); and Jayne Mansfield's Car (2013).
