
The WB/ The CW 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.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. In 2015, EUE/Screen Gems launched studios in Miami, Florida, in partnership with Viacom Inc. With expansion, the complex now offers eleven sound stages with 250,000 square feet of production space. In addition to refurbishing and using the historic structures already on the property, the company built a 37,500-square-foot (3,480 m 2) sound stage.
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In 2010, EUE/Screen Gems signed a 50-year lease with the City of Atlanta, Georgia to use the historic Lakewood Fairgrounds as a film and TV production studio. The studio is a 37,500-square-foot (3,480 m 2) columnless structure with a 60圆0x10.5-foot, 186,000 gallon special effects water tank. 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 facility became EUE/Screen Gems Studios. In 1996, EUE/Screen Gems acquired Carolco Pictures' Wilmington, North Carolina, film and production studios, after Carolco had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. The following year, Cooney acquired EUE/Screen Gems' New York production facility from Coca-Cola.

In June 1982, Columbia Pictures was sold to The Coca-Cola Company. EUE/Screen Gems was managed by Columbia production executive George Cooney. In 1959, Columbia Pictures acquired EUE and eventually merged it with Screen Gems, Columbia's then-television production division, and renamed the entity EUE/Screen Gems.

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.

After the war, they saw the commercial potential of television as an advertising medium. The company collaborates with other studios and producers for the development, production, marketing, and distribution of entertainment for feature film, television, and digital content.īrothers Stephen and Michael Elliot founded a studio in New York City just before World War II, as photographers for department stores and advertising agencies. is an American film and television studio production company that owns and operates facilities in Wilmington, North Carolina Atlanta, Georgia and Miami, Florida.
