Updated
June 30, 2014
-- World Cup 2014 Lingo
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-- Under The Dome CBS Series Returns for Season Two NC Filming
June 30, 2014
-- World Cup 2014 Lingo
-- Luxury Underwater Hotel in Key West?
-- Under The Dome CBS Series Returns for Season Two NC Filming
N.C.-filmed Under the Dome, returns
to CBS next Monday, June 30, 2014, at 10 pm with its Season
2 premiere. Filmed entirely in North Carolina's Southeast region, Under the Dome is a television
adaption of the popular Stephen King novel in which an entire town gets
trapped under some sort of dome and is cut off from the rest of the world.
The series was heavily recruited by the N.C. Film Office beginning in 2012. The show opted to film in North Carolina because of the state's talented crew base, ability to look like "Anytown U.S.A." and the 25 percent refundable tax credit offered to productions. During its first season of filming in 2013, the production had a direct in-state spend of more than $33 million while creating 1500 job opportunities.
For season one, cast and crew made frequent trips to Burgaw and Southport from Wilmington to film scenes for the series. And with season two production in full swing, the trend continues. Mike Raad, a documentary filmmaker who lives in Burgaw, said the four-block radius that surrounds the Pender County courthouse in Burgaw is a favorite of local productions. In a new short film he directed, Hometown Hollywood, Raab traced 30 productions that have filmed in Burgaw, including Dome, and found that all of them have used those four blocks because it offers the perfect canvas on which to film.
Southportsimply being a stop along Dome's production route has benefitted the popular tourist town, according to Cindy Brochure, with Southport Tourism & Economic Development. After seeing a tourism boost last summer when the series began airing its first season, Southport is already seeing similar effects this year. "It is safe to say that tourism [related to the show] this summer has already tripled from last year," Brochure said. "There is quite the following."
Source: Visit NC
The series was heavily recruited by the N.C. Film Office beginning in 2012. The show opted to film in North Carolina because of the state's talented crew base, ability to look like "Anytown U.S.A." and the 25 percent refundable tax credit offered to productions. During its first season of filming in 2013, the production had a direct in-state spend of more than $33 million while creating 1500 job opportunities.
For season one, cast and crew made frequent trips to Burgaw and Southport from Wilmington to film scenes for the series. And with season two production in full swing, the trend continues. Mike Raad, a documentary filmmaker who lives in Burgaw, said the four-block radius that surrounds the Pender County courthouse in Burgaw is a favorite of local productions. In a new short film he directed, Hometown Hollywood, Raab traced 30 productions that have filmed in Burgaw, including Dome, and found that all of them have used those four blocks because it offers the perfect canvas on which to film.
Southportsimply being a stop along Dome's production route has benefitted the popular tourist town, according to Cindy Brochure, with Southport Tourism & Economic Development. After seeing a tourism boost last summer when the series began airing its first season, Southport is already seeing similar effects this year. "It is safe to say that tourism [related to the show] this summer has already tripled from last year," Brochure said. "There is quite the following."
Source: Visit NC
