https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWtJpUCxU4Y A group of Catholic school friends get in trouble with the headmistress after she finds a comic they've created in which she is the villain. They plan a prank as payback that will make them local legends. Emile Hirsch, Kieran Culkin, Jena Malone, Jodie Foster and Vincent D'Onofrio star in the film. Filmed In: Charleston, South … [Read more...] about Film Friday: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
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Film Friday: Blue Velvet
In one of David Lynch's most iconic films, Blue Velvet, a college student finds a severed human ear in a field. The police become involved, which implicates a nightclub singer. Curious about the case, he breaks into her apartment while she is at work and finds out more than he bargained for. Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern star in the film. … [Read more...] about Film Friday: Blue Velvet
Film Friday: Idlewild
In Idlewild, a musical set in Prohibition-era South, a speakeasy owner and performer Rooster goes head to head with gangsters. The all-star cast includes Andre Benjamin and Big Boi of Outkast fame, Paula Patton, Terrence Howard, Macy Gray, Cicely Tyson and Patti LaBelle. Specific scenes were filmed at Orton Plantation. Filmed In: Burgaw and Wilmington, North Carolina If … [Read more...] about Film Friday: Idlewild
Film Friday: Weekend at Bernie’s
A pair of unlikely employees at a corporation are invited by their boss to spend the weekend at his beach house, but he really plans on having them killed. Instead, the boss is killed and the duo pretend he's still alive while the mafia tries to finish him off. Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman and Catherine Mary Stewart star in Weekend at Bernie's, which was filmed … [Read more...] about Film Friday: Weekend at Bernie’s
Exploring Wilmywood’s Filming Locations
This post has been updated in June 2019 to reflect places that have since closed. New information is in bold. Wilmington aka Wilmywood and Hollywood of the East: A small town in North Carolina that superstar celebrities visit every year to film television shows and films. I have to admit, the reason I chose to visit Wilmington initially was because it was once Tree Hill and … [Read more...] about Exploring Wilmywood’s Filming Locations
