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Success Of ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Could Bring Even More Film Production To Georgia

April 30th, 2018

This image released by Marvel Studios shows, front row from left, Danai Gurira, Chadwick Boseman, Chris Evans, Scarlet Johansson and Sebastian Stan in a scene from “Avengers: Infinity War.”

Chuck Zlotnick / Marvel Studios via AP

The latest movie in Marvel’s Avengers series, which is just coming off the biggest opening weekend in history, was filmed in Georgia.

Producing movies like “Avengers: Infinity War” — which raked in more than $250 million in the U.S. over the weekend, according to Disney — pumps a lot of money into the state: about $60 million, according to estimates from the Georgia Film Office.

One film’s success can also attract other productions.

“It just sets a confidence in the ability for Georgia production teams and our infrastructure and everything: that they’re world class,” said Lee Thomas, deputy commissioner of the Georgia Film, Music and Digital Entertainment Office.

Thomas said key parts of that infrastructure are the large sound stages that have popped up around Atlanta in recent years.

One of those, Pinewood Studios in Fayetteville, served as the headquarters for the Avengers film.

“Now with all of the new sound stages that have been built here since 2010, we have the ability to attract shows [and films] that we were never able to attract in the past,” Thomas said.

“Avengers: Infinity War” is one of many successful Marvel films produced in the state. “Black Panther,” produced in-part in Georgia, has become one of the top grossing movies of all time.

And Marvel’s already has another one in the works: production on the next movie in the Guardians of the Galaxy series is set to start later this year.