Downtown Burgaw Hometown Hollywood Film Tour

Pender County and the Town of Burgaw are poplar locations for Hollywood.

Pender County and the Town of Burgaw are popular locations sought out for Hollywood.

Historic Downtown Burgaw is an eclectic variety of 18th and 19th Century architecture that represents a vanishing example of a by-gone era. The film industry has always been attracted to this charming town. Our shops, parks, schools, street corners, and more have been backdrops for dozens of your favorite television and movie productions.

Walking around downtown Burgaw, you will find familiar sites and buildings from several movies that would include Stephen King’s (1985) "Silver Bullet", “Windmills of the Gods” (1987), “The Rose Garden” (1995), “A Mother’s Instinct” (1995), “The Summer of Ben Tyler” (1996), "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (1997), “Freedom Song” (2000), “The Runaway” (2000), “The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” (2002), “My Life in Idlewild” (2004), "The Jailhouse" (2009), "Tammy" (2014), including television series "Revolution" (2012), & "Under the Dome" (2013).

From Dan Aykroyd, Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Paul Newman, John Travolta, Mary Tyler Moore, Maya Angelou, Ashley Judd, and Outkast are just a few of the famous faces to have visited Burgaw.

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