Who could have guessed that the Georgia Legislature would inadvertently keep bringing Kim Kardashian to town?
The reality starlet was spotted in Atlanta in early May while her beau Kanye West filmed a bit role in “Anchorman 2.” The comedy finished filming here after a week-long stint in Woodruff Park that was so stuffed with stars you had to wonder who was left in Hollywood. Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, Dave Koechner, Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Vince Vaughn, Christina Applegate, Nicole Kidman and Harrison Ford were joined by a horde of additional talent in the movie’s final days as West, along with Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, John C. Reilly, Jim Carrey, Sacha Baron Cohen, Liam Neeson and Kirsten Dunst headed to Atlanta.
In March, Kardashian was here for a red-carpet screening of the Tyler Perry movie “Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor,” followed by a private party at Perry’s home. Before that she’d been to Atlanta last year to film a guest-star role in Lifetime’s “Drop Dead Diva.”
Kardashian’s just one of a slew of stars coming to Atlanta for work these days. Robert De Niro was here twice last year, for “Killing Season” and “Last Vegas.” His “Last Vegas” co-star Kevin Kline filmed “The Last Robin Hood” with Susan Sarandon and Dakota Fanning earlier this year.
A-listers heading our way since the 2008 tax credits were enacted have included Oscar-nominated Jessica Chastain, who filmed the 2012 movie “Lawless” here with her “Zero Dark Thirty” co-star Jason Clarke, and Jennifer Garner, who filmed “The Odd Life of Timothy Green” with Joel Edgerton (who also appeared in “Zero Dark Thirty,” and was seen more recently in “The Great Gatsby.”)
This summer Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are appearing in locally made “The Internship,” and each has shot movies here in the past. Vaughn starred in “The Watch” and Wilson in “Hall Pass,” both shot in metro Atlanta. Jason Bateman stars in the recently released “Identity Thief” and was in the 2011 comedy “The Change-Up,” both of which were shot here.
Other stars and their Atlanta-made movies include Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams and Justin Timberlake (“Trouble With the Curve,” 2012), Jennifer Aniston (“Wanderlust,” 2012), Denzel Washington and John Goodman (“Flight,” 2012), Jennifer Lopez, Cameron Diaz, Anna Kendrick, Matthew Morrison, Dennis Quaid, Elizabeth Banks, Brooklyn Decker, Chace Crawford, Chris Rock and Rodrigo Santoro (“What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” 2012), Billy Crystal, Bette Midler and Marisa Tomei (“Parental Guidance,” 2012), Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Whoopi Goldberg, Phyllicia Rashad and Thandie Newton (“For Colored Girls,” 2010), Reese Witherspoon (“Devil’s Knot” and “The Good Lie,” due for 2013 and 2014 releases respectively).
Stars in town these days for various movies include Anthony Hopkins and Colin Farrell (“Solace”), and Jon Hamm and (“Million Dollar Arm”) and Andy Garcia, James D’Arcy, Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. have been in town filming “Let’s Be Cops.” That movie also stars Nina Dobrev, a cast member on locally produced “The Vampire Diaries.”
Movies scheduled to film here this summer will included “Blended” with frequent co-stars Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. In August the long-awaited sequel to “Dumb and Dumber” gets cranking. That one reunites Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey — who was just in Atlanta filming a role in “Anchorman 2.”
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