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Abstract:
The state's independent filmmakers often have to make low-budget films just to make ends meet. However, as filmmakers become more business-smart and local investors understand the industry better, funding and film quality will improve.
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Shelby, not Wilmington, is actually the birthplace of the state's movie industry. The industry began in Shelby during the 1970s and 1980s, when self-made millionaire Earl Owensby made thirty-five low-budget, high-action films on his sound stages. Owensby starred in most of his own B-grade movies, and though the critics panned them, the films grossed millions of dollars.
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Earl Owensby, founder, president and sole owner of EO Corporation, began making movies at his studio in Shelby in 1972. He has made a dozen pictures, all of them financially successful, and has acted in eight of them.