Tim McGraw’s new movie is filming in Nashville this week

Country star Tim McGraw is still riding pretty high on the success of his latest film, The Blind Side (Variety shows a box office cache of almost $220 million), which teamed him with top leading lady Sandra Bullock. But he’s already moved on to another movie, and another blockbuster leading lady — Love Don’t Let Me Down, with co-star Gwyneth Paltrow, which began production this week in Nashville.

Along with McGraw and Paltrow, Love will also feature Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester (who shares McGraw’s musical inclinations — you’ve likely heard her in Cobra Starship’s major hit “Good Girls Go Bad”) and Garrett Hedlund (who joined McGraw in the cast of 2004 football flick Friday Night Lights).

Since it’s being done here in Middle Tennessee, McGraw isn’t the only local being put to work on the $15 million project: Production company Screen Gems intends to tap area residents for “almost 75 percent of the film’s crew and 90 percent of the film’s cast,” the Tennessee Film, Entertainment and Music Commission announced Monday.

The gist of the plot, according to writer and director Shana Feste, focuses on “a rising young singer-songwriter (Hedlund) who becomes involved with a fallen country singer (Paltrow). As they embark on a career resurrection tour with her husband and manager (McGraw) and a beauty queen-turned-singer (Meester), romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.”

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