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Udpate: The “Atlanta Black Panther Movie Festival” will take place on Thursday, February 15, 2018, at Regal Cinemas located at Atlantic Station 261 19th Street NW Atlanta, GA at 7:00 pm. Doors open at 6 pm with activities for photos and award ceremony.
“Black Panther” is the biggest cultural in entertainment event of 2018, and Atlanta, which is where the majority of the film was produced, is front and center.
Celebrities have already held an exclusive screening of the Marvel film in Midtown but what about the people? How can the regular Joes and Janes and Jamals see the movie? Well, it’s selling out everywhere fast. But there are still some tickets to grab.
Rapper T.I. is giving away tickets on Monday evening at a local Walmart. The free screening will be at an undisclosed location.
According to the AJC: T.I. will join associates at the Walmart at 1105 Research Center Dr SW, Atlanta, GA 30331 (off Cascade Road )at 5 p.m. Monday to give away tickets, in the toy aisle. While you’re there, check out Walmart’s selection of exclusive “Black Panther” action figures, toys, merchandise, and apparel and take a selfie with the “Black Panther” signage.
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Actor Chadwick Boseman is living high off the hog these days thanks to his recent movie credits, including a star turn as James Brown, Thurgood Marshall and now “Black Panther.”
The actor said that when he stayed down South to film (largely in the Atlanta area) he was reminded of the progress the nation has made — and the lack thereof. He told culture website Mr. Porter that he witnessed firsthand a gathering of the Ku Klux Klan as he drove home to visit family in South Carolina.
“When I was shooting Black Panther in Atlanta, I used to drive back on off-days to go see my family in Anderson. It’s about two hours,” he told the website.
“And I would see the Klan holding rallies in a Walmart car park,” he added. “So it’s like we’re going forwards and backwards at the same time. People don’t want to experience change, they just want to wake up and it’s different. But this — shooting Black Panther and then driving past the Klan —that’s what change feels like.”
“Black Panther” has gotten super reviews since it screened for celebrities last week on the big screen. The film debuts Feb. 13 in select markets and opens up nationwide two days later.
During a special screening on Tuesday, Feb. 6 in Atlanta, MPAA Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin said that the film’s production has generated $83.9 Million to Georgia’s economy, according to Deadline.
At the 2018 Chicago Auto Show, a Lexus exec crushed over the fact that the automaker’s new LC 500 model is featured prominently in the movie.
“There is one scene I’m not happy about. There’s a scene when [King T’Challa] slid across the hood and left a huge scratch on the car,” said Koji Sato, the executive general manager of the Lexus LC 500, according to Thedrive.com. “What is wrong with you, that’s my baby! Why would you do that? You are crazy!”
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Lao restaurant Snackboxe Bistro has opened its doors in DeKalb County, AtlantaFi has learned. Snackoboxe opened Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018 to such success that the establishment ran out of food and had to close.
The restaurant has been operating on a limited menu featuring several Asian hits such as khao poon, spicy thum and Lao sausage.
“Come one, come all!! Just in time for super bowl weekend, place your party platter orders with us 😁” the eatery posted on Facebook this weekend. #snackboxebistro #grandopening #laofood#laorestaurant
The restaurant is located at 6035 Peachtree St. Suite C-114, Doraville, GA. 30360.
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People around Atlanta are preparing for an arctic blast Friday evening. That means it’s going to be frigid temps for most of the weekend.
Forecasters said a wintry mix would be possible for metro Atlanta at some point. The center will open Friday February 2, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. and remain open until 12:00 p.m. Saturday, February 3, 2018.
The City of Atlanta has opened a warming center for those in need of a warm place to stay. It is located at the Old Adamsville Recreation Center, 3404 Delmar Lane NW, Atlanta, GA 30331.Central Park Recreation Center Grant Park Recreation Center Old Adamsville Recreation Center.
For more info, please call 404-330-6023.
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Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms preached unity as she addressed a room of influential Wednesday, Jan. 31 at the Buckhead Coalition’s annual meeting.
“We now that when Buckhead is strong, we know that the South Side is strong. We know that when the South Side is strong, we know that the North Side is strong.”
“I am committed to making sure that we continue to work together to make sure that our entire city is as strong as it can possibly be,” she said to a room packed with Atlanta’s elite. “It’s so incredibly important that we remember we really are one Atlanta,”
The theme of the invitation-only event was “Atlanta Together.”
Bottoms’ speech was a salve for business leaders looking for guidance from the new mayor as the city courts Amazon for arguably its biggest power move since the Olympics. Bottoms said that she was all on-board to lure Amazon, but cautioned that there were smaller players she had to cater to as well.
After the event, she tweeted: “t was my pleasure to deliver the keynote address at the 2018 #BuckheadCoalition Annual Luncheon. A reminder that we need all of our diverse communities to come together and move forward as #oneAtlanta to ensure our collective success. Thank you for having me.”
Led by former Mayor Sam Massell, the Buckhead Coalition is a powerful business group made up of the region’s movers and shakers.
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A new townhome development is coming to the Reynoldstown section of Atlanta, turning the landscape near the city’s downtown area on its head. The project will be anchored between Moreland Avenue and the Beltline’s Eastside Trail, according to Curbed Atlanta.The development will be called Mattie Branch and consist of rentals as well. Five of the 11 townhomes have already been purchased, but more are on the way.
The remaining townhomes will be priced around $550,000 for about 2,000 square feet, Curbed reports.
The townhomes will be designed in three styles — “Full Modern,” “Midcentury,” or “Farmhouse Modern”— “with siding made from trees felled on the site and steel porches forged by Reynoldstown’s own Stein Steel,” according to Curbed.
The new project joins a development of 20 condominiums at 45 Moda Reynoldstown townhomes, which will be ready somewhere in the second quarter of 2018.
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Trap Du Soleil will be held Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at an undisclosed location. But it needs exotic dancers to make the event a success. Do you have smooth moves? If so, get in touch.
Here are the deets:
Date: Thursday, Feb 2, 2018
Casting Time: 4PM-8PM
Location: @vlive.atlanta
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Georgia is clearly the epicenter of the moviemaking universe. In 2017, the collective economic impact from the film industry bought $9.5 billion to the state, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle, further solidifying the Peach State as a movie powerhouse.
Last year an analysis from FilmLA found that Georgia’s ascension atop the movie-making mountain caught much of the nation off-guard. “The rapid growth of the film and television industry in Georgia and the state’s steadfast commitment to its support is remarkable,” the report said. “With 17 projects in 2016, the first-ranked Peach State hosted nearly three times as many feature films as fifth-place New York and Louisiana.”
Venom
The film based in the Marvel universe stars Tom Hardy in the title role along with Michelle Williams (The Greatest Showman), Riz Ahmed (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Jenny Slate (Zootopia) and Woody Harrelson (the Hunger Games franchise, True Detective).
Boy Erased
Boy Erased a movie starring Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe will film in Atlanta. The movie centers around a Baptist preacher’s son who is forced to go through a gay conversion program. Joel Edgerton will direct the movie as well as star in it.
A sequel to the 2015 hit Marvel movie, this newest installment plays off cameos in the “Avengers” and “Captain America” movies and stars Evangeline Lilly, Paul Rudd, and Michael Douglas. Marvel has picked Peyton Reed to direct the feature film.
According to Deadline, Dumplin stars Jennifer Aniston’s and centers around a former beauty pageant queen who now runs the local Texas pageant. The movie will be directed Anne Fletcher and is produced Michael Costigan (Ghost In The Shell).
In the upcoming Georgia-filmed production Ryan Gosling will play Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, in a new biopic directed by La La Land and Whiplash director Damien Chazelle.
Stay with us as we update this list periodically to bring you the latest movies coming to ATL.
Son of Shaft
Superfly
The remake to the 1970s franchise is reportedly being co-produced by Atlanta rapper Future. Production began in January and is set to wrap in early June.
Based off the popular 1970s movie, “Son of Shaft” will star Samuel L. Jackson as a crimefighting vigilante and one bad mother. Production started last fall and will wrap in the next couple months.
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if you want to attend a really cool auction and dabble into culture, this weekend’s Art Crush in Atlanta is a can’t-miss occasion.
The fun starts at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 3. Attendees can bid on artwork by emerging and established artists from around the South, including Atlanta.
Buy tickets online; general admission is $50 per person or choose one of the VIP table host opportunities.
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Aspiring filmmakers are getting a boost in Atlanta, thanks to the banking industry. Georgia State University’s Alonzo A. Crim Center for Urban Educational Excellence was recently awarded a $125,000 planning grant from JPMorgan Chase to help prepare local young people for careers in film, media and entertainment industry in Georgia.
Adults ages 18 through 24 who are not enrolled in school and not employed will be required to come to Georgia State’s campus, take courses and gain skills as part of the Careers In New and Emerging Media Areas (CINEMA) Project.
“The CINEMA project is an innovative solution to two pressing challenges facing Georgia today: The growing number of young people who are disconnected from work and education and the need for a trained labor force,” said Brian Williams, Crim Center director.
A trio of seven-week classes will be set up by the Crim Center, the Atlanta Film Society, Georgia State’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and the university’s new Creative Media Industries Institute. The initiative will include a four-to-six-week paid internship.
“We want more people to share in the benefits of a growing economy by creating sustainable paths to careers that lead to prosperity and wealth for more individuals,” said Mike Passilla, managing director at JPMorgan Chase. “Atlanta is becoming one of the world’s fastest growing TV and film destinations and our partnership with the Crim Center will help our local youth have long, successful careers right here at home.”