STATE ECONOMIC CHIEF HEADED TO LA TO PROMOTE MASS. FILM BIZ

STATE ECONOMIC CHIEF HEADED TO LA TO PROMOTE MASS. FILM BIZ

By Matt Murphy STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE February 4, 2011 STATE HOUSE – Economic Development Secretary Greg Bialecki will travel to Los Angeles next week for a two-day sales-pitch to promote the state’s burgeoning film industry. After receiving a public relations...
Boston movies rake in Oscar nods

Boston movies rake in Oscar nods

By Julie M. Donnelly Boston Business Journal January 26, 2011 BOSTON-“The Social Network,” “The Town,” and “The Fighter” — all filmed in and around Boston — received a total of 16 Oscar nominations Tuesday. The nominations included Best Picture and Best Director nods,...
Stars excited to be in Oscar running

Stars excited to be in Oscar running

By Mark Shanahan & Meredith Goldstein Boston Globe January 26, 2011 BOSTON-Dicky Eklund’s last stop yesterday was Sully’s Tuxedos in Lowell. “The Fighter’’ had received an impressive seven Oscar nominations, and Eklund was thinking about what he might wear when...
Stars excited to be in Oscar running

Oscar acquires a Boston accent

Mass. movies score Oscar nominations By Ty Burr and Wesley Morris Boston Globe January 26, 2011 BOSTON-Hollywood tilted significantly and decisively to the Northeast yesterday. An unusually high percentage of nominations for the 83rd annual Academy Awards went to...
This is Hollywood’s kind of ‘Town’

This is Hollywood’s kind of ‘Town’

By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa with Megan Johnson Boston Herald January 26, 2011 The 16 Oscar nominations for three locally made flicks could be the last hurrah for made-in-Mass. movies. The Academy Award bounty for Mark Wahlberg’s “The Fighter” and Harvard-to-Facebook...