Written by Bo Shurling

ROF Productions, LLC is shooting the Lifetime TV movie currently titled Ring of Fire – The June Carter Cash Story in the Atlanta area through June 29th. Poet and chanteuse Jewel Kilcher will play June, while Matt Ross (American Horror Story) plays hubby Johnny Cash. Allison Anders (Gas, Food, Lodging) is directing, and the Peasall Sisters have been recording with Joe Henry, singing the songs of the Carter Sisters – June, Helen and Anita – for the movie. The biopic is based on Johnny and June’s son John Carter Cash's book Anchored in Love: An Intimate Portrait of June Carter Cash that follows the singer's life from her early beginnings through her stormy marriage to the Man in Black. Hard for us to believe it’s not going to be shooting in New York, but CBGB, a film about the iconic Bowery rock club, will film in Savannah from June 18th through July 24th. Alan Rickman will play Hilly Kristal, the venue’s legendary owner. The film is being directed by Randall Miller who also co-wrote the script with Jody Savin. The duo respectively directed and co-wrote 2008’s Bottle Shock, which also starred Rickman. One has to wonder if they’ll obtain the rights to the music of the 1970s New York punk and new wave bands that built the club’s worldwide reputation. The film’s Devil’s Knot, starring Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth, will be filming in Georgia from June 25th through August 3rd. The movie revolves around the West Memphis Three, three teenagers falsely convicted of satanic murders. The trio was released last August after spending 18 years in prison. The film will be directed by Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter, Chloe); Jessie Misskelley Jr. and Jason Baldwin, two-thirds of the West Memphis Three will co-produce. First they removed posters from Florida theaters and pulled the original teaser trailer. Now, depending on your views, either the extremely sensitive or ridiculous execs at Fox Studios shortened the name of the Vince Vaughn/Ben Stiller sci-fi/comedy Neighborhood Watch to The Watch following the uproar surrounding the shooting of Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. The movie – shot in metro Atlanta late last year and early this year – is still scheduled to open July 27th. Prior to that, however, Vaughn will return to Atlanta area for The Internship, in which he will be reteamed with his Wedding Crashers co-star Owen Wilson The two play friends who find themselves suddenly unemployed and passed by in the digital world, so they try to reinvent themselves by becoming interns at a major tech company. The movie is scheduled to shoot here from July 9th through September 20th. The Getaway, starring Jon Voight, Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez, wrapped its shoot in Bulgaria and moved to Atlanta in May. Hawke plays a race car driver in the film whose wife is kidnapped, so he races around trying to find her, taking orders from a mysterious man (Voight) watching him via cameras attached to Hawke’s car. Rumor has it the first order from Voight is: “Avoid Atlanta rush-hour traffic at all costs, or you’ll never find your wife in time!” The movie shoots here until June 15th. Not much info but if you have seen the others you can guess what this one is about: Scary Movie 5 will shoot in Georgia from July through September. Several independent films are either shooting or getting ready to shoot around the state. Grandma’s Blessings, about a down-on-his-luck TV personality who receives the promise of a special gift from his dying grandmother, is being filmed in Valdosta; the thriller Plus One begins shooting on June 4th; and Laughing Cow Productions plans an August 4-18 shoot in Atlanta for Catania, about five Italian sisters returning to Italy to divvy up the family estate, when “all hell breaks loose.” Sounds positively pippo. Two recent pilots recently filmed in Georgia have been picked up as series by their respective networks. Kevin Williamson’s The Following, starring Kevin Bacon as FBI agent Ryan Hardy who is in pursuit of a serial killer who has created a…well, following/cult of serial killers. According to deadline.com, Bacon has committed to 15 shows a season. A trailer for the pilot is online at YouTube, and sharp eyes will spot Fox 5’s Tom Haynes at about 50 seconds in. Meanwhile, JJ Abrams’ Revolution, about a group of people’s struggle to survive after all forms of energy have “seemingly” disappeared from the planet, will be on NBC. That pilot’s trailer is also online at YouTube. Although Williamson’s show Vampire Diaries is filmed in metro Atlanta, there is no official word yet if The Following or Revolution will return to the Peach State to shoot the series. The TV series The Ricky Smiley Show will shoot in Atlanta from June 11th through 29th. The show is being produced by Roger Bobb, former Executive Vice President of Tyler Perry Studios, now head of Bobbcat Films. The Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim TV series Your Pretty Face is shooting June 11th through August 15th in Atlanta. Atlanta area born rapper-turned-actor T.I. and Morris Chestnut have joined Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Amanda Peet and John Cho in ID Theft. T.I. will play a bounty hunter and Chestnut is a Boston police detective in the flick shooting here through June 25th. BET shot the pilot for Second Generation Wayans in Atlanta in late May. The pilot was written by and stars Craig and Damien Wayans, nephews of Keenan, Shawn, Damon and Marlon. Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva and MTV’s Teen Wolf both begin their new seasons on June 3rd; meanwhile, The Complete Season One of the latter series, filmed in the metro Atlanta area, is now out on DVD… USA’s Necessary Roughness starts its second season on June 6th… VH1’s Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta premieres on June 18th.