SUFFOLK POLL: Voters support film tax credit by wide margin

SUFFOLK POLL: Voters support film tax credit by wide margin

Tax credits for movie companies were favored by 64 percent and opposed by 20 percent. September 24, 2009 The STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE reported yesterday that Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly approve of the film tax credit—which, since 2006, has resulted in a...
Columbia casts trio in Facebook film

Columbia casts trio in Facebook film

Timberlake, Eisenberg, Garfield added to ‘Network’ By MICHAEL FLEMING Variety September 22, 2009 Columbia Pictures and director David Fincher have set the core cast for “The Social Network,” the Aaron Sorkin-scripted drama about the formation...
Tom Cruise-ing in the South End

Tom Cruise-ing in the South End

By Simone Press and Ira Kantor Boston Sunday Herald September 20, 2009 Photo by John Wilcox Tom Cruise shot a scene yesterday at Stella in the South End. Hollywood hunk Tom Cruise gave Hub fans an unexpected treat yesterday by turning up in the South End to film...
Movie is a boon for biz

Movie is a boon for biz

Filming generates economic ripples By Martin Luttrell WORCESTER TELEGRAM & GAZETTE September 19, 2009 WORCESTER — When set designer Jay R. Hart walked into the Putnam Hallmark store in Webster Square Plaza last week, Daniel B. LeBlanc was interested in knowing...
Playhouse to reopen as theater for foreign films

Playhouse to reopen as theater for foreign films

By D.C. Denison Boston Globe September 18, 2009 Forget the Sundance Channel. Those who love watching independent and foreign films on a big screen in a real movie house are going to have a new venue right in Boston’s Theatre District. More than 10 years after the last...
Playhouse to reopen as theater for foreign films

Brush with celebrity

Hub art galleries, shops get a business lift from movie-making boomlet By Johnny Diaz Boston Globe September 17, 2009 When movie set decorator Debbie Cutler needed sculptures and paintings for one of the character’s homes in the Bruce Willis futuristic thriller...