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...

SLIDESHOW: Are the tax credits working?

The following slideshow describes the local economic impact of the film tax credit program from 2006 to 2009: Mass Film Office (Ppt) Feb 22 2010View more presentations from Mass Film Office.
Cameron Diaz joins 9/11 remembrance at Mattapan school

Cameron Diaz joins 9/11 remembrance at Mattapan school

Cameron Diaz helps set up a fence today, on the nation’s first National Day of Service and Remembrance. Diaz, along with members of the Celtics, City Year and Harvard Pilgrim Health, volunteered at the Young Achievers Pilot School in Mattapan. Photo by Mark Garfinkel...
South Shore region turning into Hollywood hotbed

South Shore region turning into Hollywood hotbed

By Vicki-Ann Downing Brockton Enterprise September 5, 2009 BRIDGEWATER — Even Ethan Hunt, the secret agent played by Tom Cruise in the “Mission: Impossible” movie series, might find it a challenge to solve the financial woes facing the town of Bridgewater these days....