Top 15 Movies Filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina by US Box Office

Director: Shane Black

Main Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle

Release Date: April 25, 2013 

Main Plot: Iron Man, a brazen but brilliant industrialist, faces an enemy whose reach knows no bounds in Marvel’s “Iron Man 3.” And Stark goes on a perilous quest to track down those responsible after discovering that his enemy has destroyed his world. Every step of this journey will put his resolve to the test. With his back to the wall, Stark must rely on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those who are closest to him to survive. Stark learns the answer to the question that has secretly troubled him: Does the man make the suit, or does the case make the man? as he battles his way back

Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber

Main Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts, Ed Helms

Release Date: August 23, 2013

Main Plot: We’re The Miller is a film about a  drug dealer who has to fabricate a family to transfer a large amount of marijuana from Mexico to the US. And soon after, stealing his drug money from a street thug. Rose, a dancer, is hired by the drug dealer to help with the “drug smuggling” activity that they are doing. She agrees to the idea in the red to pretend to be the wife and leave in the black. He also enlists two teenagers to masquerade as youngsters. He must now overcome conventions and amusing interactions, particularly with a genuine family.

Director: James Wan

Main Cast: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor

Release Date: August 2, 2013

Main Plot: The story of Conjuring starts when Carolyn and Roger Perron relocate their family to a run-down farmhouse in Rhode Island in 1971, weird occurrences quickly begin to occur there, intensifying increasingly terrifying nightmares. The Warrens find a region rife with a demonic poltergeist who is now following the Perron family wherever they go. The Warrens will need to use their knowledge and spiritual power to stop this evil, threatening to destroy everyone involved. In 1971, Carolyn and Roger Perron moved their family into a run-down farmhouse in Rhode Island. Soon, strange things started happening there with an increasing sense of nightmarish terror.

Director: Steve Barron

Main Cast: Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas, Josh Pais, David Forman 

Release Date: November 23, 1990 

Main Plot: Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles begins with a mutagenetic gel in a sewer that transforms a rat. Four turtles are in the character of Raphael, Donatello, Michaelangelo, and Leonardo. Together with the other creatures into human beings. The rat takes on the role of their tutor and imparts to them all that he knows about jujitsu. The turtles fight crime in New York City with their newly acquired skills. But can they uphold what they’ve learned and remained as a brotherhood when a former foe kidnaps their instructor? Watch out for this film and witness how these turtles will save their instructor.

Director: Brad Silberling

Main Cast: Jim Carrey, Jude Law, Meryl Street, Liam Aiken 

Release Date: December 17, 2004 

Main Plot: After their parents’ untimely passing, Mr. Poe, a close friend of their parents, takes care of Violet (Emily Browning), Klaus (Liam Aiken), and Sunny Baudelaire (Kara and Shelby Hoffman) as they go from guardian to guardian (Timothy Spall). The orphans live with grammatically challenged Josephine Anwhistle (Meryl Streep) and herpetologist Montgomery Montgomery (Sir Billy Connolly), but the worst one is Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), an evil and greedy man who attempts to steal the Baudelaire fortune with the aid of his assistants, Bald Man (Luis Guzmán), Hook-Handed Man (Jamie Harris), Person of Indeterminate He poses as the ship’s captain Julio Sham

Director: Brad Peyton

Main Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Dwayne Johnson, Michael Caine, Luis Guzman

Release Date: February 3, 2012

Main Plot: Since his journey in the Earth’s core, Sean Anderson has been searching for other locations indicated by Jules Verne and other Vernians. When he learns of coded communication, he enters a satellite facility to decipher it fully. He decodes the message and finds the map that takes him to Verne’s mysterious island with the aid of his stepfather Hank in the character of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Sean sets out on a search for his famous grandfather, Vernian Alexander, with Gabato and Kailani. However, unforeseen issues appear because Alexander made a mistake that might have altered everything.

Director: Joseph Ruben

Main Cast: Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson, Elizabeth Lawrence

Release Date: April 12, 1991

Main Plot: Four years have passed since Laura and Martin tied the knot. They appear to be the most successful, ideal, and happy pair. But their household’s reality is quite different. Martin is a cruelly obsessed and abusive husband. Laura waits for an opportunity to flee as she lives in continual fear. Finally, she fakes her death and runs away, adopting a new name and place. But when Martin learns his wife is still alive, he will do whatever to track her out and murder her. Would Martin will be successful in his evil plans for his wife? Watch out and see for yourself!

Director: Ben Falcone

Main Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates, Allison Janney

Release Date: July 4, 2014

Main Plot: When Tammy, who recently lost her job at a Topper Jack’s fast food restaurant, gets home, she discovers her husband having dinner with the neighbor. She hastily gathers her essentials and walks to her parent’s three houses. When she denies using her mother’s automobile to travel to Niagara Falls, she immediately turns to her “ailing” grandmother, who also resides in the house. However, Grandma Pearl wants to join the road trip rather than go alone. They set out after understanding that Grandma Pearl has the money. Tammy swiftly assumes the role of babysitter, falling in love in a bar and robbing a Topper Jack to bail Pearl out of jail, even though she has diabetes.

Director: Michael Pressman

Main Cast: Paige Turco, David Warner, Michelan Sisti, Leif Tilden 

Release Date: August 9, 1991 

Main Plot: The Turtles live at April O’Neil’s new apartment with Master Splinter while they are between homes following their rooftop battle with the Foot Clan. They are also relying on pizza delivery from “Roy’s” Pizza. Splinter recognizes the initials from the canister of mutagen that caused them all to become mutants, as April reports on the cleanup effort being carried out in the city by TGRI. The Shredder is still alive and well, has taken back control of the Foot, and seeks vengeance on Splinter and his pupils. He kidnaps Professor David Perry of the TGRI. He forces him to help create two aggressive mutants to serve as his own students after finding that the ooze can alter animals into minions.

Director: Tyler Perry

Main Cast: Tyler Perry, Cassi Davis, Patrice Lovely, Yousef Erakat

Release Date: January 30, 2017

Main Plot: Tiffany and her friends Aday, Rain, and Leah have invited Jonathan and his fraternity brothers’ Halloween celebration. Brian Simmons, Tiffany’s father and “Uncle Joe” Simmons’ son, bans her from going. She is outraged when she has a sexually explicit video chat with Jonathan. That evening, “Aunt Bam” and Madea, Brian’s paternal aunt, give out candy to trick-or-treaters (and Bam steals it right back from them). With the help of their buddy Hattie, Joe scares the woman by dressing as a clown. To stop Tiffany from attending the party, Brian arranges for Madea to stay at his house. Still, Tiffany and Aday make up a ghost story that makes the superstitious grownups hide in the bedrooms.

Director: Jim Gillespie

Main Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Anne Hechce, Ryan Phillippe

Release Date: December 12, 1997

Main Plot: Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt), Barry William Cox (Ryan Phillippe), and Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze Jr.) are celebrating graduation on July 4th after Helen Shivers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) wins a beauty pageant. The four buddies go to a party and decide to go to the beach around midnight. Barry, drunk, agrees to let Ray drive his car from the beach back to his house. A man strolling in the road was struck by them on their way home and reportedly killed. Max Neurick, a friend of Julie’s (Johnny Galecki), shows in as they decide what to do with the dead. He departs after Julie assures him that everything is fine. The body was dumped in a nearby sea while being dumped.

Director: Lasse Hallstrom

Main Cast: Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel, Cobie Smulders, David Lyons

Release Date: March 1, 2013

Main Plot: The abrupt appearance of Katie, a mysterious young woman in Southport’s little North Carolina town, prompts inquiries about her past. Until a chain of circumstances forces her into two uncomfortable relationships—one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a loving heart and two young children, and another with her blunt, single neighbor Jo—beautiful, self-effacing Katie seems determined to avoid establishing intimate attachments. Despite her fears, Katie starts to let her guard down as she shows roots in the small community and grows closer to Alex and his family. But even as she falls in love. Katie still deals with the dreadful secret that sent her on a harrowing trek across the country to the haven.

Director: Callie Khouri

Main Cast: Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Fionnula Flanagan, James Garner

Release Date: September 27, 2002

Main Plot: In an interview with Time Magazine, playwright Siddalee Walker in the character of Sandra Bullock, who is about to premiere a new play, talks about her complex background. Her mother interrupts her out of rage. The Ya-Ya Sisterhood is a clandestine organization that her mother’s friends founded when they were young. They abduct Siddalee from her New York apartment and take her back to Louisiana, where they use the scrapbook from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to explain why her mother abused her (and flashbacks)

Director: Michael Caton-Jones

Main Cast: Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora

Release Date: January 9, 1998

Main Plot: In response to his brother’s shooting in a Moscow nightclub, Russian mobster Terek Murad has proclaimed open season on the Russian militia and the American FBI. To assassinate FBI Director Donald Brown, he employs “The Jackal,” a cunning, evil assassin. FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian militia were present when Murad’s brother was shot. Nearly no one has seen The Jackal, save for Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper. When Preston and Koslova realize that Director Brown is a target, they ask the reluctance of Mulqueen to help them find the Jackal and stop him from killing Brown.

Director: Luis Mandoki

Main Cast: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright, Paul Newman, John Savage

Release Date: April 23, 1999

Main Plot: Message in a Bottle is one of those fictional stories. Which also believes that anyone who meets fate will be sealed by fate. Running along the beach, Theresa Osborne comes across a bottle that has washed up on the strand. Reading the letter affected her, but she also felt she violated someone’s feelings. Inside is a message. Theresa, in love with a guy she has never met, finds the writer of the letter in a small town near Wilmington, where the two lovers who met by chance fell in love. One, though, is unable to go past their history.