InTucker Magazine

From the Mayor – June 2023

A few years back, the state of Georgia changed some things around and offered filmmakers as well as other productions like tv commercials a significant tax break if they filmed in Georgia and put the peach logo in the credits of their film. The idea was to create jobs and economic benefits around the state. As movies have become more expensive to make, many productions have taken up the offer and Georgia now rivals California for the number of movies permitted for filming. Even before Tucker started officially providing services to residents, we have had representatives working on behalf of Tucker with the film industry.

Once we opened as a City, we partnered with the DeKalb Entertainment Commission to receive and vet applications and issue permits to film here in Tucker. They have done their due diligence and worked closely with the State to set forth a legal and logical process for a film permit application. Property owners are allowed to rent their space as they want but we always caution them to fully investigate any productions that approach them and to insist on seeing the final permit to film issued by the DEC.

If you would like to add your property to the production site list, you can register it on the DeKalb Entertainment Commission’s Film Locations Registry found on their website,  dekalbentertainment.com

Tucker seems to be a favorite with HBO and Netflix and has had several productions from each. Stanger Things, Ozark, The Outsiders and even Academy award-winning films like I Tonya, all have a piece of Tucker in the background. The most notable recently was in the fall of 2021 when Pierce Brosnan graced our Main Street for a week shooting The Out-Laws, a Netflix original film production. Netflix transformed an empty building in the heart of Tucker into a vegan bakery full of intrigue, hijinks and hilarity. The Out-Laws releases on Netflix July 7 and I hope you enjoy watching it and seeing our beloved Main Street as the main star…at least in my eyes!