ATLwood: 'Automated stunts, simulated combat' and more

• CHRIS MIHAL

Filming Updates:
- Fast & Furious 7 has begun filming a few weeks earlier than planned. This includes "automotive stunts, simulated combat, and special effects (explosions and simulated munitions fire)," according to a notice sent around Downtown. The week's street closures have already come and gone, but there are lane closures still in effect. Full list here.
- Vince Vaughn was back on Georgia Tech's campus, this time with his Term Life. (Tech played the part of Google in Vaughn's Google-y Google-set comedy The Internship.) The film also reportedly shot in Kirkwood through today.
- AMC's "Halt and Catch Fire" filmed at the American Cancer Society building.
- Mockingjay filmed near AmericasMart this week. The film is also returning to the Swan House, once/again the site of President Snow's mansion.
- Fox's "Red Band Society" filmed at the High Museum on Monday, in the Margaretta Taylor Lobby and the Robinson Atrium.
- ICYMI, did you notice NBC's "Constantine" pilot filming in the Krog Street Tunnel last week? (After dark, obv.)

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Sightings:
- Random Charles Barkley break!
- Shaq met with more than 150 people at Lenox last Saturday to promote his new clothing line.

Deals:
- Both "Cosby" star Keshia Knight Pulliam and "Real Housewife" Kenya Moore will appear on this season's "Celebrity Apprentice." As TMZ notes, the show has previously "helped re-launch the careers of Joan Rivers, Arsenio Hall, Trace Adkins and Piers Morgan," so.
- This is MattyB. MattyB is an Atlanta-based rapper/child. MattyB just signed a "premium content deal" with Endemol Beyond USA. (MattyB started doing this when he was 7.)

Miscellany:
- Kevin Bacon, no stranger to the completely unrelated BaconFest, has done something utterly ridiculous(/delightful) with Dad's Garage Theatre. Just ... see for yourself.
- Justin Bieber cut ties with L.A.??? Justin Bieber might still be on the home market??? "Atlanta, he's your problem now."
- NeNe Leakes does an alright cha-cha on "Dancing with the Stars."
- Everyone wants to talk about how nice we are: "We'd ask if it was OK that we were shooting Arnold Schwarzenegger blowing up the neighborhood and Atlantans would say, 'no problem.'"

Have any tips? Sightings? Encounters? Pictures? Filming news? We need 'em! Drop me a line: adamacarlson at gmail.com; or send me a tweet @acarlson91 (don't forget to use the hashtag #ATLwood).