Boston’s got game

Boston’s got game

‘Wheel of Fortune’ is latest show to hit city as officials court TV producers By Johnny Diaz Boston Globe September 2, 2009 The giant electronic green puzzle board is up. The colorful flat wheel is ready to be spun. “Wheel of Fortune,’’ the popular syndicated game...
Movie to land at airport

Movie to land at airport

Cruise, Cameron Diaz, 20th Century Fox needed a quiet, empty place By Nancy Sheehan TELEGRAM & GAZETTE September 2, 2009 Jill DiCicco of Holliston and other members of the New England Studio Mechanics, Local 481, build a set at Worcester Regional Airport...
Star rising on state’s film tax credit

Star rising on state’s film tax credit

by Lisa van der Pool Boston Business Journal August 28, 2009 Tug Yourgrau is finding good success with his production shop. Powderhouse Productions Inc. operated under the radar for more than a decade, quietly creating well-received non-fiction cable television shows...
Boston site set for silver screen

Boston site set for silver screen

Company lines up buildings By Donna Goodison Boston Herald August 30, 2009 A Los Angeles company that represents high-rise owners interested in seeing their buildings on the big and small screens has set up shop in the Hub. Skyline Locations was lured by the growing...
Boston’s got game

Hollywood or Needhamwood: local company produces ads for tv

By Kathryn Eident Boston Globe July 6, 2009 Have you seen advertisements for ABC’s TV show, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”? Do you know the opening for the Discovery Channel’s reality show, “Deadliest Catch”? How about the teaser for HBO’s showing of “The Dark...

DOR: MOVIE SPENDING IN MA IS $676 MILLION

Economic impact exceeds expectations–at no cost to Mass. taxpayers through FY 2008. MFO NEWS July 2009 The MA Department of Revenue (DOR) has reported that new direct spending on film and television production generated by the film tax credit in Massachusetts is...