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Tommy Lee Jones, James Franco & more are coming to film an action movie, The Razor’s Edge, in the next month⚡️ They will be shooting mostly downtown & we can’t wait to share more behind the scenes with Producer & Actor @siralexanderkane 📣 The movie originally was planned to be filmed in Vancouver and set in New Jersey. However, Alexander and partner Mike Donovan (of Workhorse Cinema) worked to lure the film to Georgia (with producer Corey Large and filmmaker Demian Lichtenstein). Kane has recruited & shot several big budget films in South Georgia. He plans to bring two more here, if this one goes well! Since our first Meeting of the Minds in AUG 2015, when we created the first high profile film festival for four years & recruited several films here, we’ve hosted several film specific community meetings, always agreeing that we need more folks with film experience for our Film Office & Film Commissioner to help recruit & host film in area. We’ve been working locally to internationally, supporting & creating film opportunities in our area since 2015, we look forward to more in 2024⚡️ #columbusgafilm 👀 #columbusga #electriccitylife #georgia

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On January 18, the curtain will rise on the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Dozens of brand-new feature films will make their world premieres and send film fans and film critics alike scurrying to theaters throughout the year to catch up as these new titles find distributors large and small. So, before this new slate of cinema takes over the cultural conversation, I’m taking one last opportunity to point out a few of the best films of 2023 that may have flown under your radar.

American Fiction: The brilliant Jeffrey Wright (The Batman, Westworld) plays Monk Ellison, an African American university professor and author of literary fiction. When he’s told by his agent that publishers feel his newest novel isn’t “black enough," Monk sets out to write the most offensive novel filled with racial stereotypes that he can imagine … and it becomes a runaway bestseller. American Fiction is a hilarious satire that explores racial identity and the appropriation of that identity for commercial gain. Writer-director Cord Jefferson makes an impressive leap from television to motion pictures with this debut film. He’s a filmmaker to keep an eye on.

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