Family and fans greet Wahlberg in Hingham

Family and fans greet Wahlberg in Hingham

Fans crowd around Mark Wahlberg (right) outside the restaurant Alma Nove in Hingham yesterday. (Photos By Barry Chin/Globe Staff) By Mark Shanahan & Meredith Goldstein Boston Globe August 4, 2010 Just a day after Dorchester’s own Mark Wahlberg premiered his...
County makes strikes in the filmmaking business

County makes strikes in the filmmaking business

By Jenn Smith Berkshire Eagle July 25, 2010 Berkshire County has a good-looking head shot, with Mount Greylock and the Taconic mountain range at its crown and Gilded Age mansions near its nape. Since the county already has a presence in the motion-picture industry,...
Movie cannibals hunger for Western Mass

Movie cannibals hunger for Western Mass

By FRED CONTRADA Springfield Republican July 25, 2010 GREENFIELD – Michigan didn’t have much of an appetite for it, but Greenfield’s mayor finds it quite palatable that his town might be the setting for “The Woman,” a movie filled with...
Op-Ed: The secret to our movie success

Op-Ed: The secret to our movie success

Business View By Joel Olicker & Tug Yourgrau Boston Business Journal July 23, 2010 There has been much confusion in recent months about the costs and benefits of Massachusetts’ film and television tax credit program. Here is what every business leader should...
Family and fans greet Wahlberg in Hingham

The guru of toughness

“Irish” Micky Ward By Carlo Rotella Boston Globe July 19, 2010 WHAT IS IT about “Irish’’ Micky Ward, the retired light-welterweight boxer from Lowell, that draws men to him in the hope that some of his old-school tough-guy virtue will rub off on them? It’s...
Massachusetts in “Top Ten” again!

Massachusetts in “Top Ten” again!

Production Update Magazine (P3), in the July 2010 issue, announced its annual list of America’s “Top Ten” states for film production. For the third time since 2007, Massachusetts made the list — this year joining Connecticut as one of only two...