Great race heats up for Mass. movie Hub

Great race heats up for Mass. movie Hub

By Scott Van Voorhis Boston Herald June 4, 2008 Boston is now in the running to become the headquarters of Hollywood East. A local developer who owns land on South Boston’s waterfront is drawing up plans for a movie production complex, state Rep. Brian Wallace...
Bruce Willis to film action scene in Hopedale

Bruce Willis to film action scene in Hopedale

By Aaron Wasserman Milford Daily News June 3, 2008 HOPEDALE —If anyone can bring high-wire action to the Draper mill complex, it’s probably actor Bruce Willis. Scenes for Willis’ new movie, “The Surrogates,” a sci-fi thriller, will be filmed at...
Great race heats up for Mass. movie Hub

Editorial: Lights, camera, economic action

Boston Herald Editorial Monday, June 2, 2008 Back when director Norman Jewison set up his cameras outside a bank on Congress Street and in 19 other Massachusetts locations for “The Thomas Crown Affair” (the old original one with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway) who’d...
Keeping the cameras rolling in Mass.

Keeping the cameras rolling in Mass.

By Chris Bergeron The MetroWest Daily News Jun 02, 2008 SOUTHBOROUGH —Though he loves movies, Joseph Maiella doesn’t care about schmoozing with Matthew McConaughey next time he shoots a film in the Bay State. After 30 years working with moviemakers, the...
Patte Papa, Boston’s Movie Permit Czar

Patte Papa, Boston’s Movie Permit Czar

No Papa permits? No filming here. By Judy Rakowsky, Globe Correspondent | June 1, 2008 On a Sunday at 6 a.m., the Massachusetts Avenue bridge is deserted, except for a lone actor on a bicycle pedaling furiously toward Cambridge. A helicopter film crew hovers above....