After recently completing the movie Caught in the Crossfire in Grand Rapids this week, 50 Cent’s production company Cheetah Vision may bring their next project Jekyll and Hyde to Michigan. The movie is set to co-star Acadamey Award winning actor Forest Whittaker.

Mlive is also reporting that the Cinepro Pictures CGI action film Tribes of October; starring Ray Stevenson, Robert Duvall and James Caan; will likely film inside the Grand Rapids convention center DeVos Place in August.

The new Rob Reiner coming of age movie Flipped will be using Ann Arbor schools property for it’s production his summer. In total, the film company is paying the district more than $30,000 for use of several sites and custodial services.

Specs Howard School of Broadcasting is taking on film production with a new training program that pairs the school up with noted full-scale Metro Detroit production studio Grace & Wild.

Oakland University in Rochester Michigan will be adding this fall a major in Cinema Studies and a minor in Graphic Design.

The Metro Time has a behind the scenes look for the casting call for the upcoming Monster Garage Detroit Edition on Deiscovery Channel later this year.

This weekend a film crew will start shooting in Genesee Township outside of Flint, Michigan for a National Park Service movie on the 1862 Civil War Battle of Corinth (fought about 20 miles from the famous Battle of Shiloh.)

WXYZ Detroit has the first look at the new MoTown Motion Picture Studio opening up later this year in a former GM Plant in Pontiac Michigan.  The 7 sound stage studio is expected to bring in over 3,000 permanent and over 10,000 support positions to Southeast Michigan.  They also stated in the news piece that Steven Spielberg is looking to shoot an upcoming movie at the vacancy Pontiac Silverdome.

Grand Rapids Wood TV 8 has a behind the scenes look at the upcoming 50 Cent and Chris Klein crime drama Caught In The Crossfire, which is currently shooting in Grand Rapids

Robert De Niro is also the executive producer for the upcoming Val Kilmer and Martin Landau “dramedy” 20% Fiction – which will also be shooting in Troy Michigan this summer.

MLive.com reports that Warner Brothers has recently leased a building in Ann arbor to shoot the upcoming Rob Riner film adaption of the “coming of age” novel Flipped.  They also report that if the production goes well Warner Brothers will keep the space for a second movie.