Editorial: Lights, camera, economic action

Editorial: Lights, camera, economic action

by | Jun 3, 2008 | Article

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 | Jun 2, 2008 | Article

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

by | Jun 1, 2008 | Article

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....
Lucent building brings starpower to North Andover

Lucent building brings starpower to North Andover

by | Jun 1, 2008 | Article

Hollywood East: Massive vacant space in old Lucent building brings starpower to North Andover By Crystal Bozek and Drake Lucas Lawrence Eagle Tribune June 1, 2008 NORTH ANDOVER — Owners of the massive Osgood Landing may have once lamented the barren space that exists...
Patte Papa, Boston’s Movie Permit Czar

Lynn stands in for Hollywood

by | May 30, 2008 | Article

NAMES AND FACES by Mark Shanahan May 31, 2008 Lynn became the area’s latest Hollywood backlot yesterday as the cast and crew of “The Surrogates” shot scenes inside the former Security National Bank. Large crowds were looking on as Bruce Willis walked...