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The top three films — Venom: The Last Dance, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and Heretic — in a Veterans Day weekend sans a major tentpole, overperformed this weekend.

Whether you're a working actor or an aspiring one, you might be curious to know which movies and TV shows are casting roles near you.

The Columbus Film Office has launched a new resource on the VisitColumbusGA website for filmmakers and locals supporting productions in the region. The Columbus Production Directory offers directors and producers the ability to search for local crew and support services.

From out of the blue, Sony/Marvel’s Venom the Last Dance after registering the lowest opening in the trilogy with $51M, actually held fantastically with a -49% second weekend or $26.1M.

Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA), a strategic arm of the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD), today announced that more than $3.5 million in competitive grant funding will be distributed to recipients across the state through its Bridge, Project, and Arts Education Program grants.

The numbers speak for themselves, at least at the domestic box office, as Sony/Marvel’s Venom: The Last Dance saw the franchise’s lowest domestic opening with $51M after a $22M Friday/previews and a $16.8M Saturday, -23%.

Backstage compiled a list of projects casting right now in Columbus, Georgia, nearby cities, and nationwide, and which roles they're looking to fill.

In one of the year’s second-best triumphs for indie genre cinema after NEON’s Longlegs, Cineverse’s under $5M investment, Terrifier 3, is screaming to an estimated $18.3M+ 3-day after an $8.2M Friday, $5.9M Saturday and $4.2M Sunday.

Making Columbus the third leg of Georgia’s film industry became a goal in 2019, but the pandemic — followed by strikes — made building a local workforce and bringing in productions difficult.

If anyone was betting on Joker: Folie à Deux as being a winning tentpole in their fantasy box office league a year out, well, sorry, you just lost a ton of cash.