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Southern Scares is the second feature film put on by director and screenwriter Paul Rowe’s Last Caress Productions, in partnership with producer Andy Carpenter and Trey Walker’s Mud Films. The project debuted on Saturday, Jan. 10, at the Springer Opera House in downtown Columbus, which also happens to be one of the locations featured in the project. 

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

Even though James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash isn’t as strong as the first two films stateside with an anticipated running four weekend total tomorrow of $342.6M, about -34% behind Avatar: Way of Water, the movie is powerful enough to be the roux of the January box office.

Refresh for analysis It’s a very good start to the year with all movies grossing $134.7M this weekend; in fact that’s the best first weekend of a New Year post-Covid, besting 2023’s $104.2M.

The weekend opening for James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash is slightly higher both domestic and worldwide respectively with $89M and $347M. Sunday came in better stateside with an estimated $24.5M than the $23M Disney called it at; yesterday holding at -13% from Saturday.

The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) is deeply alarmed by President Trump’s Executive Order to sue and investigate state laws which regulate artificial intelligence (AI).

The 50th weekend of the year is ringing up $80M per ComScore, off -13% from a year ago; See the updated Sunday chart.

Are you sick of hearing that it's been a rough couple of years in Hollywood? Between the bursting of the streaming bubble, the historic WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, and the pull of global incentives... things are kind of bad.

After just two weekends, Disney’s Zootopia 2 has already reached $915.8M worldwide, including $695.3M from the international box office. The $1B threshold will be crossed within the next week.

A popular Columbus tourist attraction that closed two years ago has reopened — and people are invited to the venue to be background actors for the filming of a promotional reel to help sell a TV series to a major network.