EUE/Screen Gems Ltd. is an American

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and

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studio that owns and operates facilities in

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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

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just before

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, 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,

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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' assets from Coca-Cola. In 1996, EUE/Screen Gems acquired

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film and production studios, after Carolco had filed for

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reorganization. The facility became EUE/Screen Gems Studios. In May 2009, EUE/Screen Gems Studios opened Stage 10 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

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to use the historic Lakewood Fairgrounds as a film and television 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

, in partnership with Viacom Inc. The two-stage, production facility was built by the Miami Omni Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) as a public-private partnership with EUE/Screen Gems Studios. In September 2023, Cinespace Studios acquired the Atlanta and Wilmington studio facilities from EUE/Screen Gems.

Notes

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'' and over 300 films, commercials and television projects have been shot at the Wilmington studios. Other productions produced in Wilmington include

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's '' Under the Dome'',

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's '' Eastbound and Down'', and

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's '' Sleepy Hollow''; plus 2013 box office #1 films ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' We're the Millers'', and 2022 #1 '' Scream''. * ''

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'' is produced for

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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 ''

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''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:EUE Screen Gems American film studios Television studios in the United States Entertainment companies established in 1965 Companies based in New York City Companies based in Wilmington, North Carolina Buildings and structures in Wilmington, North Carolina