Delaware County and the Greater Philadelphia Area definitely hold their own in the movie-making business. 

Since the film industry came to our region 30 years ago, it’s generated more than $6 billion, writes Andre Bennett for KYW Newsradio.

“People think, ‘Oh, yeah, they’re making movies.’ [But] this is a big business,” said Sharon Pinkenson, executive director of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office. “And the impact to the region is enormous.”

A movie means an army of people, a warehouse of goods, and a long list of services.

That army has to be fed and housed, noted Jeffrey Rotwitt, president of Sun Center Studios in Aston.

“The production not only spends money on the actors and the crew that are here, but they house people in hotels, they’re going to restaurants to eat. Catering has a big function here,” he said.

Rotwitt opened Sun Center Studios in 2011, and it hosts one or two major productions a year that stay anywhere from four months to eight or nine.

Sun Center soundstages were there for the first two “Creed” movies, HBO’s “Mare of Easttown” and several M. Night Shyamalan moives, including “After Earth,” “The Visit”, “Split”, and “Knock at the Cabin.”

Find out more about the local filmmaking industry at KYW Newsradio.