De Laurentiis Entertainment Group ( DEG ) is an entertainment production and distribution company founded by Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis. The company is famous for producing Manhunter , Blue Velvet , horror movies Near Dark and Evil Dead II , King Kong Lives (sequel to De Laurentiis's remake of King Kong ), and Bill & amp; Ted's Excellent Adventure , as well as distributing The Transformers: The Movie .
The company's premier studio is located in Wilmington, North Carolina, which is now EUE/Screen Gems Studios. The studio's first release was in 1986. It went bust two years later after Million Dollar Mystery, among other films, failed at the box office.
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History
In 1983, Dino De Laurentiis produced Firestarter in Wilmington. North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt claimed that the film boosts economic activity in the state. Hunt used incentives and loans to allow De Laurentiis to buy local warehouses to convert into studios. In early 1984, De Laurentiis founded the North Carolina Film Corporation, with Martha Schumacher as president.
In 1985, DEG acquired Embassy Pictures from The Coca-Cola Company.
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Movies released
The distribution of Canadian DEG releases is done by Paramount Pictures.
DEG has an initial version of Recall in pre-production with Patrick Swayze as Quaid and Bruce Beresford to direct (David Cronenberg has also been approached), where it has been shot in Australia. After the bankruptcy of DEG, the film went to Carolco Pictures.
Together with the library of Embassy Pictures, the library of De Laurentiis Entertainment Group has since gone to StudioCanal.
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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