EUE/Screen Gems Ltd. is an American

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and

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studio production company that owns and operates facilities in

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;

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; and

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. The company collaborates with other studios and producers for the development, production, marketing, and distribution of entertainment for feature film, television, and digital content.

History

Brothers Stephen and Michael Elliot founded a studio in New York City just before World War II, as photographers for department stores and advertising agencies. After the war, they saw the commercial potential of television as an advertising medium. In 1948 they teamed up with William Unger to form Elliot, Unger & Elliot (EUE), one of the earliest commercial-production companies for the television industry. In 1959,

Columbia Pictures Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production studio that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the mu ...

acquired EUE and eventually merged it with

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, Columbia's then-television production division, and renamed the entity EUE/Screen Gems. EUE/Screen Gems was managed by Columbia production executive George Cooney. In June 1982, Columbia Pictures was sold to

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. The following year, Cooney acquired EUE/Screen Gems' New York production facility from Coca-Cola. In 1996, EUE/Screen Gems acquired

Carolco Pictures Carolco Pictures, Inc. was an American independent film studio that existed from 1976 to 1995, founded by Mario Kassar and Andrew G. Vajna. Kassar and Vajna ran Carolco together until 1989, when Vajna left to form Cinergi Pictures. Carolco hit ...

' Wilmington, North Carolina, film and production studios, after Carolco had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. The facility became EUE/Screen Gems Studios. In May 2009 EUE/Screen Gems Studios opened a 10th "Dream Stage" in Wilmington, the third largest film and television production stage in the U.S. The studio is a columnless structure with a 60x60x10.5-foot, 186,000 gallon

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s water tank. In 2010, EUE/Screen Gems signed a 50-year lease with the City of

to use the historic

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as a film and TV production studio. In addition to refurbishing and using the historic structures already on the property, the company built a sound stage. With expansion, the complex now offers eleven sound stages with 250,000 square feet of production space. In 2015, EUE/Screen Gems launched studios in Miami, Florida, in partnership with Viacom Inc. The two-stage, 88,000 square foot production facility was built by the Miami Omni Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) as a public-private partnership with EUE/Screen Gems Studios.

Notes

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show '' One Tree Hill'', The WB's '' Dawson's Creek'' and over 300 films, commercials and television projects have been shot at the Wilmington studios. Other productions produced in Wilmington include CBS's '' Under the Dome'', HBO's '' Eastbound and Down'', and Fox's '' Sleepy Hollow''; plus 2013 box office #1 films '' Iron Man 3'', '' The Conjuring'', and '' We're the Millers'', and 2022 #1 '' Scream (2022 film)''. * '' Rachael Ray'' is produced for Harpo Productions and distributed by

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at the New York facility which has also hosted hundreds of productions since 1965. *

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was killed at the Wilmington studios following a firearms malfunction during filming for '' The Crow''.

References

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