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Best TV & Film Tours Around the World

Huffington Post Jessica Spiegel for Viator Taking a vacation can be all about escape -- and the same can be said about losing ourselves in the movies and TV shows we love. It's only natural, then, for film and TV buffs to combine the two when we travel by visiting...

Movie business is thriving in Massachusetts

The future of Massachusetts’ television and film industry may lie in four very large rooms off a quiet wooded road in the former Army base at Devens.
The space is empty now, but it could one day host the next hit TV series or superhero action flick.
These rooms, which make up a $36 million complex called New England Studios, are the first large-scale soundstages built in Massachusetts, and the only ones for hundreds of miles around. Another production facility is slated to open in Worcester by the end of the year. These represent what promoters of the state’s film production industry say have been missing.

2014 BLUECAT SCREENPLAY COMPETITION CALL FOR ENTRIES

The 2014 BlueCat Screenplay Competition is now accepting feature and short screenplay submissions. This year’s competition will award a Grand Prize of $15,000 for Best Feature Screenplay and $10,000 for Best Short Screenplay – the world’s largest cash prize for shorts!

On Location: A New England Village

By Pat Ryan The New York Times August 15, 2013 SHELBURNE FALLS, Mass. — UP in the highlands of western Massachusetts, a Brigadoon lies squirreled away in the dense forest. Indians fished for salmon at the falls on the Deerfield River here in the 17th century;...

The Crane Estate: A Hollywood hit

By Jonathan Phelps SalemNews.com August 14, 2013 'The Equalizer,' Denzel Washington, make way to Ipswich IPSWICH — Denzel Washington is making the rounds on the North Shore in filming for his new movie, “The Equalizer,” and yesterday he arrived in Ipswich. The...

The Ultimate Video Search

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Six memories of when Hollywood came to town

By Enterprise Staff Report Enterprise.com July 18, 2013 R.I.P.D. wasn’t first 1. The summer blockbuster “R.I.P.D.” – which opens today – is the most recent Hollywood movie to be filmed in southeastern Massachusetts, but it’s not the first. The special-effects...

Celluloid circus: Hollywood’s lights shine on Massachusetts

When the undead cop comedy “R.I.P.D” opens Friday, it will be the fourth shot-in-Massachusetts film opening within the past month at the multiplex. Director Paul Feig’s comedy “The Heat,” led off this local celluloid circus June 28. Then, the Marshfield-set “The Way, Way Back” arrived July 5 (going wide July 26). Adam Sandler’s “Grown Ups 2,” which was shot on the North Shore, hit Friday.

Boston feels Hollywood ‘Heat’

By: Sara Gaynes Boston Herald June 23, 2013 The old Boston Herald building on Harrison Avenue gets the Hollywood treatment this week, courtesy of “Bridesmaids” director Paul Feig. The director of the Sandra Bullock/Melissa McCarthy buddy-cop flick “The Heat” was...