They even built a new door for her building that she still uses, she said. The production only shot there for one day, Pannkuk said, but crew members were there off and on for a week setting up. Related: When, and where, to see 11 Wilmington-shot movies and TV shows premiering in 2022 Wilmington film industry: After a record-setting year, Wilmington's film industry waits for 2022 calendar to fill up "It's exciting," she said, adding that she posted the trailer, in which the laundry can be seen, to her Facebook page. "They were wonderful. Melissa Pannkuk, who's owned the business for about six years, said it's the first time she knows of that any film or TV productions have shot there. When in the area last year from April through June, "Along for the Ride," shot in and around several area businesses, including Melissa's Coin Laundry, a 24-hour laundromat in Carolina Beach. "There’s no way to predict how the Netflix movie will impact tourism," Nelson said, adding that "without a doubt popular film and television productions have an impact on tourism," even if visits inspired by specific productions are notoriously difficult to track and measure.īoth "Dawson's Creek" and "One Tree Hill" are known to have inspired a substantial number of people to visit Southeastern North Carolina over the years. More from Netflix: Wilmington-made Netflix movie announces release date, debuts trailer "We remain hopeful that the movie is a hit and inspires fans of the show and its stars to visit filming locations," said Connie Nelson, communications and public relations director with the Wilmington and Beaches Convention & Visitors Bureau.Īmazon Prime series: Wilmington-shot Amazon Prime series 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' gets release date What all this means for the area remains to be seen, but depending on how widely it's viewed and how well it's received, "Along for the Ride" could potentially provide a boost for tourism, or inspire even more people to move here. (Schuylar Croom, lead singer for Wilmington-based hard rock band He Is Legend, tweeted out a billboard advertising "Along for the Ride" from Hollywood's Sunset Strip when his band was on tour in early April.) Netflix appears to be promoting "Along for the Ride" heavily, and it could wind up as the most-watched movie on the service after it debuts. But few, if any, shows or movies - other than perhaps the little-seen 2005 indie "Loggerheads," which was set largely in Kure Beach - have featured the area as prominently as the mass market release "Along for the Ride" seems ready to.
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