News and Events

A Japanese trailer for Gus Van Sant’s The Sea of Trees arrived online, offering the first extended preview of the Matthew McConaughey-starring film since the release of a short clip early last year.

Read More

Sony Pictures Entertainment has released a 30-second teaser trailer for the reboot of “Ghostbusters,” which is due out this summer.

Read More

Back in 1989, Ghostbusters II predicted that the world would come to an end on Feb. 14, 2016. (Or as Peter Venkman says, “Valentine’s Day. Bummer.”) Well, Valentine’s Day 2016 is officially here, and while the world hasn’t ended yet, Sony has marked the occasion by releasing the first look at the upcoming Ghostbusters.

Read More

Disney’s The Finest Hours follows the story of Bernie Webber (Chris Pine) and his rescue team sailing out in the middle of one of the most dangerous storms that has ever hit the East Coast of Cape Cod to rescue Ray Sybert’s (Casey Affleck) crew on a sinking oil tanker. Emertainment Monthly got the chance to partake in a conference call with The Finest Hours‘ stars Chris Pine and Casey Affleck.

Read More

By Jill Harmacinski Eagle Tribune January 31, 2016 LAWRENCE — Hollywood star Ben Affleck and his production crew have long packed up and left the Immigrant City. But the final …

Read More

If Disney’s new action adventure film The Finest Hours reminds you of a certain George Clooney movie from about 15 years ago called The Perfect Storm, you wouldn’t be wrong. There are similarities as both are Massachusettes-set movies following a group of ordinary men in survival mode on the high seas as a huge Nor’easter hits. But apart from the spectacular effects of lots of giant crashing waves on a comparatively tiny boat, The Finest Hours has more on its mind as it tells the true and heroic story of one of the most incredible Coast Guard rescues in history.

Read More

Deadline Hollywood January 25, 2016 UPDATE Amazon has acquired domestic rights for Manchester By The Sea, a deal Deadline exclusively revealed. EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is closing a $10 million deal for …

Read More

Martha’s Vineyard coasties, active and retired, will be special guests at a showing of the newly released film that depicts a famed rescue.

Read More

Dean College will host the producer and the author of “The Finest Hours” for the Dean College Leadership Institute Leadership In Action Lecture Series at 4 p.m. March 3

Read More

In our continuing mission to make the lives of independent moviemakers even better, we take time each year to spotlight the most promising and fertile places in the country to put down roots. We scour the nation, poll film commissions, trawl through data, and interview moviemakers in hundreds of localities.

Read More

By Globe Staff Boston Globe January 14, 2015 The Oscar nominations were announced Thursday morning, and among them are a few films with Boston-area ties. ‘Spotlight’ The film about the …

Read More

Consider these twists on your “average movie run” to make this peak film season all the more special.

Read More

The crew of the CG36500 that went out to rescue the stranded men aboard the SS Pendleton in the middle of a vicious nor’easter may be humble and have zero interest in boasting about their accomplishment, but on January 29th, we’re going to celebrate their bravery on the big screen in Craig Gillespie’s adaptation of the Casey Sherman book, The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue.

Read More

By Will Robinson Entertainment Weekly January 7, 2016 The big-city type isn’t usually cut out for rural life. But Andrew will endure it in Tumbledown in order to secure permission …

Read More

Massachusetts made TUMBLEDOWN was filmed in Ayer, Concord, Devens, Groton, Princeton, Shirley, Westford, Westminster and Worcester in 2014. IN THEATERS FEBRUARY 12TH

Read More

Casey Sherman, co-author of the 2009 best-seller “The Finest Hours,” spent a lot of time on-set while his book was being made into a Disney film. But the author (and former WBZ-TV producer) said the best moment was being there when one of the original heroes depicted in the film visit the set for the first time, and watching him take it all in.

Read More

America at its blooming best: Massachusetts boasts star-studded filming locations but the gardens are the east coast state’s real attraction.

Read More

The Boston Globe’s Ty Burr takes a look at movies in Boston through the years.

Read More

Boston is getting a throwback makeover courtesy of Ben Affleck and the “Live By Night” crew

Read More

By Bryan Alexander USA TODAY November 18, 2015 It’s impossible to miss the massive size difference between Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (who is 6-foot-5, 265 pounds) and Kevin Hart (5-foot-4, …

Read More

MENU

Back