by admin | Apr 22, 2009 | Article
Movie, TV industry contributed 2.5 mil U.S. jobs in 2007 By Georg Szalai The Hollywood Reporter April 22, 2009 NEW YORK –The movie and TV industry contributed 2.5 million jobs and $41.1 billion in wages to the U.S. economy in 2007, according to an MPAA...
by admin | Apr 20, 2009 | Article
Lack Of Movie Studio Tax Credits May Make Mass. A Laughingstock. Again Commercial Interests By Scott Van Voorhis Banker & Tradesman Columnist April 20, 2009 States like Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York ate our lunch with gambling, siphoning untold billions...
by admin | Apr 19, 2009 | Article
Ambitious studio projects could make Massachusetts a center for the film industry INNOVATION ECONOMY By Scott Kirsner, Boston Globe Columnist April 19, 2009 This spring, Mark Ridder is coordinating golf outings at Waverly Oaks, the country club he co-owns in Plymouth....
by admin | Apr 13, 2009 | Article
By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa Boston Herald, The Inside Track April 14, 2009 Cambridge homey Ben Affleck, in Roxbury yesterday filming scenes for his new flick, “The Company Men,,” says he believes he has made the last movie about a newspaper, with the upcoming “State...
by admin | Mar 31, 2009 | Article
By Rachelle Cohen March 31, 2009 Boston Herald, Op-Ed The fight over those state film tax credits is getting to have a kind of “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” vibe about it. Now there’s a philosophical case to be made against tax credits. But by all accounts the one passed...
by admin | Mar 26, 2009 | Article
The king of screens By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa Boston Herald, The Inside Track March 26, 2009 Blart is back! Overachieving made-in-Boston comedy “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” made a whopping $141 million at the box office, so it should come as no surprise that production...