BUSINESS & INDUSTRY The Caldwell Tanks buildings in downtown Newnan, top, have proven to be popular filming sites, and were used in “The Walking Dead,” above, and “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1.”
Newnan High School was the site of a pivotal search for medical supplies in season 2 of “The Walking Dead.”
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Photo by Jeff Leo
where content originates here. And it’s starting to happen,” Tigchelaar said. On the south side of Atlanta, there are Pinewood, Raleigh, Screen Gems at the old Lakewood Fairgrounds, the new Atlanta Metro Studios in Union City at the former site of Shannon Mall, and Tyler Perry’s new studio project being built at Fort McPherson, just north of East Point. Tigchelaar says he gets asked often if there are too many studios being built in Georgia. “Eventually, if people keep building them, we’re going to have too many,” he said. But not yet. Raleigh has been booked up with “The Walking Dead” since 2011. And “I still get calls for stage space every two weeks,” Tigchelaar said. Some movies filmed in Coweta are only here for a few days, and if the filming is done on private property out in the county, it may happen with very few people knowing about it. Other times, productions spend weeks or longer in Coweta. The movie “Lawless” set up its basecamp in the former Bible Baptist Church on U.S. Highway 29. “The Founder” used the parking lot of the Coweta Administration Building as the site for one of the very first McDonald’s. While the setup, filming and tear down was going on, county employees had to park elsewhere.