Dino de laurentiis jr biography
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Unlikely story: 40 years ago, Dino De Laurentiis started Wilmington's film industry
Forty years ago, one of the most famous film producers in the world opened a studio in Wilmington.
Today, Wilmington and its film industry are still reaping the benefits of that thoroughly unlikely decision.
Dino De Laurentiis (1919-2010) was a prolific Italian film producer who churned out hundreds of movies over the course of a career that spanned 65 years, everything from high art (Federico Fellini's 1957 Oscar winner "Nights of Cabiria") to absolute dreck (the notoriously schlocky, Wilmington-shot "King Kong Lives").
"He's responsible for all this being here," Johnny Griffin, director of the Wilmington Regional Film Commission, told the StarNews in 2010, the year De Laurentiis died.
It's a story that's been told often, but bears repeating. De Laurentiis came to Wilmington almost by chance. In 1982, with Martha Schumacher, who would later become his wife, and with Frank Capra Jr., son of
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De Laurentiis Entertainment Group
Defunct entertainment production company
De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) was an entertainment production company and distribution studio founded bygd Italian producer Dino dem Laurentiis. The company fryst vatten notable for producing Manhunter, Blue Velvet, the horror films Near Dark and Evil Dead II, King Kong Lives (the sequel to dem Laurentiis' remake of King Kong), and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, as well as distributing The Transformers: The Movie.
The company's main studios were located in Wilmington, North Carolina, which is now EUE/Screen Gems Studios. The studio's first releases were in 1986. It went bankrupt two years later after Million Dollar Mystery, among other films, failed at the box office.[1]Carolco Pictures acquired DEG in 1989.[2]
History
[edit]In 1983, Dino dem Laurentiis produced Firestarter in Wilmington. The governor of North Carolina, Jim Hunt, claimed that the filming
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Dino De Laurentiis
Italian-American film producer (1919–2010)
Agostino "Dino" De Laurentiis (Italian:[ˈdiːnodelauˈrɛnti.is]; 8 August 1919 – 10 November 2010) was an Italian film producer and businessman who held both Italian and American citizenship. Following a brief acting career in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he moved into film production; alongside Carlo Ponti, he brought Italian cinema to the international scene in the post-World War II period. He produced or co-produced over 500 films, with 38 of his Hollywood films receiving Academy Award nominations. He was also the creator and operator of DDL Foodshow, a chain of Italian specialty foods stores.
Early life
[edit]Agostino De Laurentiis was born in Torre Annunziata, Kingdom of Italy, on 8 August 1919. He grew up selling spaghetti made by his father's pasta factory. His older brother, Luigi De Laurentiis (1917–1992), later followed him into film production. He studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Ci