Filmmakers vow to boycott Georgia after state passes controversial abortion bill

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

Filmmakers are vowing to boycott Georgia after the governor signed a controversial abortion bill into law earlier this week. While many people might not think of Georgia as a booming place for film production, more top-grossing films are produced there than anywhere else in the world, according to the state's website.

At least three prominent production companies said they will no longer shoot their films in the state. Christine Vachon's Killer Films, which is responsible for the Oscar-nominated movie "Carol," and the Oscar-Winning film "Still Alice," will no longer shoot in Georgia," the filmmaker tweeted Thursday.

David Simon said his Blown Deadline Productions will no longer consider the state as a shooting location. Simon is responsible for "The Wire" and HBO's "The Deuce."

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The filmmakers are outraged by the state's "fetal heartbeat bill," which Governor Kemp signed into law Tuesday. The law appears to violate Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that protects a woman's right to an abortion up until when the fetus is viable, which typically happens between 24 and 25 weeks.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/filmmakers-vow-to-boycott-georgia-amid-states-controversial-abortion-bill/

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Georgia has spent a lot of taxpayer money attracting the film industry, films shot in Georgia receive a 30% tax credit. This boycott is going to leave a mark.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Good on the Film Industry....

Boycott all states that pass laws like this.

Thank God we have a Governor who will veto such archaic laws. Film here, Hollywood. Minnesota is a lovely state.

[Leghorn21]

2. This'll leave a GREAT BIG mark - Atlanta is the filmmaking capital of the south, far as I can tell -

Here’s a list of what’s shooting there just this year:

https://atlantafi.com/heres-the-list-of-movies-being-filmed-in-atlanta-georgia-in-2019/

[iscooterliberally]

3. I know The Walking Dead is filmed there.

I was in Atlanta a couple of years ago and they have tours where you can go see all the sets that they filmed the show on. I live in FL and a lot of film makers left our state to go up there because of the tax breaks.

[Clarity2]

9. I was just going to ask that

I hope walking dead follows suit.

[Aristus]

13. I only watched a couple of episodes of 'The Walking Dead' before getting bored and moving on.

I think it was the first episode that had the tank in downtown Atlanta, and the zombie crewman. As an ex-tanker, I loved watching the scene. It wasn't an American-made M1 Abrams, though. Those hardly ever turn up in movies. Usually, the film-makers use a Canadian Army German-made Leopard IA1 tank, instead.

Often, when I think about a Hollywood-style zombie apocalypse happening in real life, I imagine that a tank would be the safest place to fight the outbreak. One could fight zombies all day from the safety of the crew compartment, then button up the hatches at night for safe sleeping.

[TlalocW]

18. I often annoy my sister, who's a fan, with what I think are good ideas for the show

I think they should have an episode where everyone gets a break. The zombies and gangs are quiet for whatever reason, and they stumble across a Piggly-Wiggly and find some cake mix so they make that in celebration of everyone's birthday.

An episode seen through the eyes of a zombie where we learn they think everyone else has turned into a zombie.

And finally, I told her there was an easy way to resolve everything going on in the show, get rid of the zombies, restart society, etc. "How?" my sister asked. "Batman," I replied.

She doesn't let me watch it with her anymore.

TlalocW

[Aristus]

19. The topsy-turvy notion of the zombies being the good guys and the humans hunting them being

the bad guys goes back as far as Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend. (None of the films based on the book had the courage to include that twist in the story). It was even the central theme in an episode of "Black Mirror". It wouldn't be a revolutionary idea, but it might make for an interesting episode.

[TlalocW]

20. If nothing else, it's tragic

So tragic, I can't even think about it anymore. (stifles a sob)

Yeah, not a new idea, but my sister is not a zombie connoisseur so she had never thought about it. I have no idea why she likes TWD so much.

TlalocW

[iscooterliberally]

23. That happened to me during the first season too.

I only watched a couple of episodes and that was it. Later on I got back into it for a bit, but I don't really watch it anymore. My wife loves it and still watches. She watches Fear the Walking Dead too. It's like non-stop zombies.

[unc70]

4. Georgia benefited from NC bathroom bill

The combination of the infamous bathroom bill and the reduction in state incentives in NC caused a lot of filming to shift elsewhere, particularly to Georgia. With the bathroom issue neutralized, maybe some of the business will return to NC studios and locations.

[Cattledog]

5. Not really unless the big Studios and Stars get on board.

Those are two small independent production companies. The films sited weren't even shot in GA. In 2018 there were 455 productions filmed here in GA for a total of $2.7 billion spent. Unless Marvel and the big boys get on board, it's spitting in the wind, and the jackasses in the State Capitol know it.

[LanternWaste]

6. Just in the fiscal year 2017 film and TV production had an economic impact in GA of...

Just in the fiscal year 2017 film and TV production had an economic impact in Georgia of $9.5 billion.

There were 348 productions shot in the state in 2009. Films shot in Georgia include Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008), Life as We Know It (2010), Contagion (2011) and a number of Marvel Studios productions including Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, as well as Ant Man and the Wasp and Black Panther. Atlanta has been called the "Hollywood of the South".


(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_industry_in_Georgia)

While I like that Hollywood puts a ton of locals to work in poor states, I like more that the film-makers are sticking to their guns and drawing the only line in the sand the GOP can see: revenue.

[Submariner]

7. That's the white trash cracker who stole the election from Stacey Adams

I hope the entire film industry boycotts the state. That cracker will flip flop real fast when the Hollywood cash cow leaves town.

[yaesu]

8. good on them. nt

[Chipper Chat]

10. Delta - are you listening.?

[progressoid]

11. Now Filming in Georgia:

Along Came the Devil 2 - Feature Film indie
Ambitions - TV Special/Series OWN
Bigger S1 - TV Special/Series BET
Christmas on the Square -TV Movie Netflix
Conjuring 3 - Feature Film Warner Bros.
Couples Court with the Cutlers - TV Reality syndicated
Deadly Cult - TV Reality Oxygen
Dish Nation S7 - TV Reality FOX
Dollar Toy Squad - TV Special/Series Pocket.watch
Dwight in Shining Armor S2 - TV Special/Series BYUTV
Encore - TV Reality Disney Platform
Fear Street - Feature Film FOX
Good Eats: The Return - TV Reality Food Network
Greenland - Feature Film STX
Greenleaf S4 - TV Special/Series OWN
Holidate - Feature Film Netflix
Insatiable S2 - TV Special/Series Netflix
Intolerable with Nancy Grace - TV Reality Oxygen
Irresistible - Feature Film Focus Features/Universal
Live to Tell - TV Reality Investigation Discovery
Love & Hip Hop Atlanta S8 - TV Reality VH1
Married to Medicine S7 - TV Reality Bravo
One Heart vFeature Film indie
Ozark S3 - TV Special/Series Netflix
P Valley - TV Special/Series Starz
Real Housewives of Atlanta S12 - TV Reality Bravo
Robbie - TV Special/Series Comedy Central
Saints & Sinners S4 - TV Special/Series Bounce TV
Say Yes to the Dress vTV Reality TLC
Stargirl S1 - TV Special/Series DC Universe
Sunday Best - TV Reality BET
The Aquarium - TV Reality Animal Planet
The Encounter - TV Special/Series Pureflix
The Liberator - TV Special/Series Netflix
The Outsider - TV Special/Series HBO
The Plath Family - TV Reality TLC
The Real World - TV Reality Facebook Watch
The Walking Dead S10 - TV Special/Series AMC

[IcyPeas]

21. that's a lot of $$$$$ right there

[certainot]

12. 2 ways to punish GA GOP - 3 universities in GA helped do this and can be protested

those schools broadcast sports on 14 limbaugh stations. they give them cred and help them attract advertisers. all those stations follow the limbaugh lead. the local blowhards on those stations have to be pro republican and anti choice or they lose their jobs.

from republiconradio.org

GEORGIA 14 Georgia 7, Georgia Tech 5, Georgia Southern 2

if GA anti choice cons paid $1000/hr to support and elect republicans those stations would be worth $1,050,000/WEEK FREE to them (1000x15hrs/dayx5 =$75,000/ station)

students at those universities can protest right on campus - those schools have no excuse to keep supporting trump, global warming denial, and anti-choice motherfuckers

anyone anywhere can record programs and podcasts on those stations and can use artificial intelligence-enhanced transcription such as at sonix.ai for $5/hr, and list advertisers with contact info with very little listening required. the companies that are helping republicans with this shit can be associated directly with the crap they sponsor.

from republiconradio.org

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[mahina]

24. Really appreciate you posting this information

[delisen]

28. Great Information to act on . nt

[extvbroadcaster]

14. I lived in Georgia

There is Atlanta and everywhere else. But speaking for myself, I got tired of it. The confederate nonsense, General Lee, the backwoods attitude. Not to say there are not nice people there, but the old Georgia runs deep. I had a guy I considered a friend tell me flat out he would never vote for a black or a woman, period. Another friend used to take General Lee's birthday off work each year as a tribute. I left the state and have never been back. They love the GOP, guns, god, and that's it. You can't tell them anything. That goes for just about any social issue, gays, abortion, unions. Tell them you are from New York, and see the reaction.

[Ilsa]

16. North Georgia is changing.

Lots of immigrants coming for tech education and tech work. Hospitals in N. Ga are exploding in size, building everywhere, bringing in people from out of state and out of the US.

It's just a matter of time before that stupid flag is only found on the graves of your ex-friend.

[Ilsa]

15. This is a BFD, as Joe would say.

TV series, like The Vampire Diaries, were filmed in GA. The Georgia Film Commission indirectly is a big moneymaker for GA revenues.

[NurseJackie]

17. Walking Dead is filmed there, right? Filmed in GA set in VA...

... maybe they'll actually move shooting to VA.

[barbtries]

22. that's good news.

GA should look to NC and the bathroom bill for some insight into unintended consequences.

[Lady_Chat]

25. Hit them in the wallet

If these fanatics worship anything, it's the Almighty dollar. They care nothing about women's health care or rights. And they certainly don't care about babies that are already born.

[democratisphere]

26. Time for Georgia to get rid of their "good ol' boy" politicians

and lead the South out of their 19th Century thinking.

[Hortensis]

27. These 20-week limits are being driven by new ages of viability,

due to science ironically but totally predictably, not just religious conviction.

As of 2017, the youngest babies to survive were born @21 weeks. The current general limit of viability is considered to be @24 weeks, but viability is just the point at which most babies will survive, not the point at which any will. The U.S. has no law setting an age of viability, at which all efforts must be made to save the life of the person. Both before and after 24 weeks, many extremely important and crass factors come into the decision of whether to try to save or let die each new person.

However, advances in neonatal science, such as artificial wombs, will be increasing the chances of healthy life at earlier and earlier gestations. With current widely available science, 22 weeks as a generally accepted age of viability would probably already be more accurate than 24. And thus we are seeing these abortion limits set at 20 weeks.

The enormous costs of neonatal care, and care for survivors with health problems, are, of course, huge issues. We hear a lot from the right about the evils of abortion as a political weapon, but nothing about the evils of a nation letting newborn people die without care because it would cost too much. That's entirely different politically. One would think it would already have lead to a major rift between the RW's religious and wealthy anti-tax factions, but no. Not yet anyway, not while Democrats are their Satan.

[Freethinker65]

29. Anyone ask Coca Cola their opinion?

[MosheFeingold]

30. It's not going to change anything

Think this through: the majority of politicians in Georgia think a fetus with a heart is a human being.

Be that what it may, if one holds that belief, (note I am NOT espousing that belief) how much money would it take for someone to kill said supposed human being?

Assuming said belief to be a sincerely held belief, finances are not relevant to the discussion. No amount of money could get me to kill a supposed innocent person.

The key to winning this debate is to change the hearts and minds so they abandon the belief that a fetus-with-a-heart-beat is a human being.

[meadowlander]

31. When has a conservative ever changed their mind about anything?

They're brainwashed from childhood in Jesus camps into believing that personhood starts at conception. You're not going to change that with reasoned arguments.

What you can do is get more of the sane middle of the road people (whose jobs depend on a functional economy) to stop voting for extremists who aren't acting in their interests.