![]() ![]() This 90-minute humorous tour with a “self-important director” visits locations of productions filmed in downtown Wilmington. It’s shown in the screening room where directors and producers watch the dailies for things like continuity (an example is ensuring hairstyles and clothing visually match in separate scenes). ![]() Our hour-long tour kicked off with a short sizzle reel that highlights TV shows, commercials and movies shot in North Carolina. Fox’s “Sleepy Hollow” and CBS’s “Under the Dome” began filming second-season shows this past spring. Recent movies include “Iron Man 3” “The Conjuring” and “We’re the Millers”. More than 350 film, TV and commercial projects have shot on the 50-acre sound stage lot, which boasts 10 stages and the largest special effects water tank east of Los Angeles. It hosted them for 15 years but stopped in 2011 after the TV show “One Tree Hill” wrapped final production. Before you drive there, call the hotline for updates.ĮUE/Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington is once again offering public tours. Note: At press time, it wasn’t definite that tours would continue past August 2014, and tours can be canceled when productions are in delay. Tickets: $12 adults $10 students and military personnel with an ID $5 children under 12. “It is a local story,” Chris Cooney said, “but that they could pull the story out of the 19th century and bring it into modern times is impressive and we are pleased to be part of this in our own way.Saturdays and Sundays, 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m., weather permitting. “Sleepy Hollow,” they say, is a fun show that appeals to all ages, including older viewers who remember the age-old legend. Today they live in Westchester, where they are raising their families. He is currently developing a film based on Walter Isaacson’s biography of Albert Einstein. Jeff Cooney has directed celebrities like Shaquille O’Neal and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Both were child actors and Jeff Cooney was the Cream of Wheat boy on the cereal company’s commercial. They say they were “smitten by the business” at very young ages. They graduated from Bronxville High School and both played football.Įach studied English at college - Chris Cooney, 53, at Boston University and Jeff Cooney, 55, at Holy Cross, where he was a Division 1 wide receiver. Some of their work includes commercials, along with television and film projects.īoth brothers have Westchester roots. When EUE had a film studio center in New York, now closed, it was known as the home of the serial television show “The Guiding Light.” In addition to the Wilmington facility, EUE/Screen Gems has another studio complex in Atlanta, and offices in New York City and Los Angeles. “That it is about Sleepy Hollow makes this even better,” said Jeff Cooney, the creative director.ĮUE/Screen Gems was started 50 years ago by the Cooneys’ father George Cooney, a longtime film executive at Columbia Pictures. So while the Cooney brothers aren’t involved in the actual production of the show, it all happens at their facility The brothers say they feel part of “Sleepy Hollow” and are genuine fans of the show, which airs at 9 p.m. They also shot aerial views of Sleepy Hollow from a helicopter. The film crew, though, has come to Sleepy Hollow and waded through historical village records from the 1800s, village officials say. “This story is told in places that we’ve been and know well,” he added, like the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, a bridge over the Pocantico River and the Old Dutch Church.įor “Sleepy Hollow” - which brings Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman into present day, confronting modern police, contemporary society and current technology - the production team from 20th Century Fox built sets inside the Screen Gems studios and films the episodes there. ![]() “It’s a story that we both read as kids in Bronxville, so when we were approached by the producers, we were more excited than usual,” said Chris Cooney, the company’s chief operating officer. In 2012, “Iron Man 3” was filmed there other shows that have used the North Carolina studio campus include HBO’s “Eastbound & Down,” and CBS’ “Under the Dome” which will be back in 2014.Īdd to the list “Sleepy Hollow,” which Fox has picked up for a second season. Its studio in Wilmington, N.C., is one of the largest sound stages east of Hollywood, and one of the largest in the world at 37,500 square feet. Chris Cooney of Chappaqua and Jeff Cooney of Bronxville own EUE/Screen Gems Studios, which has offices in New York and Atlanta. There is no doubt the Fox television series “Sleepy Hollow” has boosted the profile of Westchester County’s eponymous village and other Lower Hudson Valley communities.īut the show has a more local connection than just its subject matter, Washington Irving’s legendary tale of Ichabod Crane.įor two brothers raised in Bronxville, the show is a successful work venture that blends a longtime family business with the love of a good yarn. ![]()
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