Just because it makes me excited, a list of movies filmed in Wilmington:

The Secret Life of Bees
Bolden!
Nights in Rodanthe
The Marc Pease Experience
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
The Twenty-Seven Club
Twisted
Hounddog
The Beautiful Ordinary
The List
Dead Heist
White Men Can't Dance
Idlewild
Forgiven
RedMeansGo
Dirt Nap
Southern Belles
Loggerheads
20 Funerals
The Last Summer
A Touch of Fate
The Angel Doll
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
New Best Friend
A Walk to Remember
The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys
Black Knight
Domestic Disturbance
Summer Catch
Kyoko
Longshadow
Bruno
Takedown
28 Days
The Pavillion
Morgan's Ferry
Waterproof
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
Muppets from Space
Virus
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Enchanted
Black Dog
Shadrach
The Cutoff
Dreams and Wishes
Off-Season
The Night Flier
The Jackal
Bloodmoon
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Lolita
This World, Then the Fireworks
Traveller
The Grave
Horry Story
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
My Teacher's Wife
Empire Records
Fall Time
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
Stateside
The Road to Wellville
Radioland Murders
It Runs in the Family
The Crow
Chasers
The Hudsucker Proxy
Houshold Saints
Super Mario Bros.
Amos and Andrew
Alan & Naomi
The Butcher's Wife
Rambling Rose
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Secret of the Ooze
Sleeping with the Enemy
Billy Bathgate
29th Street
Tune in Tomorrow
The Exorcist III
Betsy's Wedding
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Loose Cannons
Everybody Wins
Little Monsters
Weekend at Bernie's
Collision Course
Cyborg
Dream a Little Dream
Dracula's Widow
Track 29
Traxx
Date with an Angel
Hiding Out
Weeds
The Squeeze
From the Hip
The Bedroom Window
No Mercy
King Kong Lives
Crimes of the Heart
Trick or Treat
Manhunter
Blue Velvet
Raw Deal
Silver Bullet
Marie
Year of the Dragon
Cat's Eye
Firestarter

And of course, Dawson's Creek and One Tree Hill. The biggest movie studio east of California!