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‘Nights in Rodanthe,” the latest big-screen romance based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks, opens Friday at cinemas everywhere.

The story is supposed to be set at an inn in the Hatteras Island village of Rodanthe. Folks in Wilmington, though, will be watching especially closely, since scenes were shot at EUE/Screen Gems Studios and other area locations between May 21 and June 29 of this year.

“The challenges involved with making a film of this scale in this place are immense,” said the location manager, Phillip Roope, whose film credits include Superman Returns, The Beach and Tomorrow Never Dies. “We have our own water trucks, a grader for making roads and I think we must have hired every rental car in the Top End.” …

…the countryside looks lovely. The star of this series is the location scout. The lingering longing for a defunct landscape seems to make the callous treatment of Tess all the worse …

A crew from cable network CNN visited Chambersburg on Thursday, asking residents for their views on the economy and the presidential race.

CNN producer Joshua Rubin said Chambersburg was selected as an interview site after reviewing maps and researching towns on the Internet. Chambersburg’s picturesque fountain on its square was a factor in the town’s selection, Rubin said, as was a location scout’s favorable opinion of Chambersburg’s downtown.

Dowling: I was first hired to work with the Inland Empire Film Commission. We worked in conjunction with the state film office, and we recruited filming …

Media: NZ millions invested in British movie New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - Sep 18, 2008 Photo / Supplied The New Zealand Film Commission is putting millions of taxpayer dollars into a movie set in Edwardian England and says it will boost Kiwi …

The filming of “Ugly Betty” has switched from Los Angeles to New York this season, but the Suarez clan has always called Jackson Heights home.

Shaw, who has worked for the Singapore Film Commission and as a media consultant and briefly as a branding and marketing specialist for the Hong Kong office …

Focus on movie box office hides fact fewer people buying tickets The Canadian Press,  Mo. - 7 hours ago Dergarabedian said moviegoers are also attracted to box office gross because it allows them to feel invested in a film's success, especially if a movie they …

If you really dig the “Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan,” then you’ve got two people to thank: Millan, the dog trainer and star, and SueAnn Fincke, a Belvidere native who is the series producer and director. “Cesar says she is the heart and …

Chris Smith doesn’t set out to make films about class. “Honestly, it’s really just working instinctually to see what seems interesting to me,” he says. But class keeps popping up. His credits include the documentaries The Yes Men (2003), about a …

DC names director of film office Bizjournals.com, NC - 11 hours ago Kathy Hollinger is the new director of the Office of Motion Picture and Television Development, which promotes DC as a location to produce film and TV and …

The hangars in Playa Vista south of Marina del Rey where aviator Howard Hughes built his Spruce Goose transport plane are a popular film location, however, …

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But she said one of the most popular examples of a filming location becoming a lucrative business attraction is what happened in Iowa after the Kevin …