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Article: Action: take 2 for Hollywood East. (motion pictures being filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina) (Tar Heel Tattler)
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- Business North Carolina
- Article date:
- February 1, 1991
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In 1985 and 1986, as many as 1,000 people at a time -including Diane Keaton, Nick Nolte and Jessica Lange-were at work on films in Wilmington ["Will The State's Film Deal Go Down?" April 19881. That's back when Dino De Laurentiis was trying to turn the city into Hollywood East.
But after a bout with bankruptcy, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group sold its 32-acre complex to Los Angeles-based Carolco Pictures Inc. - the people that brought you Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Recall and all those Sylvester Stallone Rambo flicks.
The deal went down last May Since then, Carolco, with 1989 revenues of $150 million, has arrived with a brand-new script.
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