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

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.

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 Boston Globe’s coverage of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church received six Oscar...

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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.

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 from Hannah to write about her late husband, a folk singer. The twist on characters in...

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.

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

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

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, 145 pounds) in photos from their upcoming comedy Central Intelligence. Johnson...

Collider was recently invited to screen preview footage for Disney’s upcoming The Finest Hours directed by Craig Gillespie and to chat with the film’s star, Chris Pine. The action-thriller depicts the heroic 1952 rescue attempt by Coast Guard coxswain Bernie Webber (Pine) and his three-man crew off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers bound for Boston are split in two by a massive nor’easter leaving their crews stranded at sea.

After three days of prep work, Margaret and Prince Street in Boston’s North End are starting to look like the 1920’s for Friday/Saturday’s filming of Ben Affleck’s “Live By Night” movie.

Ben Affleck is giving one Massachusetts town its star turn.

Expect street closings, detours and some prohibition-era drama as Hollywood actor Ben Affleck comes to downtown Lawrence this week to film his new movie.