Camera assistant Alex Buhlig plays his guitar outside his Atlanta apartment on Oct. 18, 2023. With the actors' strike still ongoing and filming largely shut down, Buhlig has been teaching guitar lessons to make ends meet. (AP Photo/R.J. Rico)
October 29, 2023
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As the 'Hollywood of the South,' Atlanta has boomed. Its actors and crew are now at a crossroads
For more than a decade, work had been nonstop in Atlanta's booming film industry thanks to Georgia's extremely generous tax break. Dubbed the "Hollywood of the South," metro Atlanta became a ubiquitous backdrop for huge projects, including Marvel films and Netflix's "Stranger Things."