9/1/26
What 1986 feature filmed primarily in the Mississippi Delta starred Ralph Macchio?
Answer: Crossroads.
8/25/26
What are the three made-in-Mississippi feature films directed by Tate Taylor that feature Oscar-winning actress Allison Janney?
Answer: Breaking News in Yuba County, Ma and The Help.
8/11/26
Get on Up, the star-studded Made-in-Mississippi James Brown biopic directed by Jackson native Tate Taylor, hit theaters in August 2014. What rock ‘n’ roll legend served as a producer on the film?
Answer: Mick Jagger.
8/4/26
Today is actor Dylan Sprouse’s birthday! Though he’s most known for Disney’s The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, what recently released, filmed-in-Mississippi feature thriller stars Sprouse?
Answer: Neglected.
7/28/26
What legendary and prolific director made two of his feature films in Mississippi – the first released in 1974 and the second in 1999, 25 years later?
Answer: Robert Altman. The films: Thieves Like Us and Cookie’s Fortune.
7/21/26
What Oscar-nominated made-in-Mississippi feature film is a loose, comedic retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey?
Answer: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
7/14/26
What film starring John Travolta prominently features the Scarlet Pearl Casino in D’Iberville, MS? Hint: the sequel, The Gentleman Thief, which also filmed on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, will be released on demand and in select theaters July 28.
Answer: High Rollers
7/8/26
What Oscar-winning actor portrayed baseball legend Satchel Paige in Don’t Look Back: The Story of Leroy “Satchel” Paige, a 1981 made-for-TV movie filmed in Hattiesburg?
Answer: Louis Gossett Jr.
6/30/26
How many film or TV versions
of Huckleberry Finn have been made
in Natchez, MS?
Answer: Four. Huckleberry Finn (1974), Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1982), The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn (1985), The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993).