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By Jonathan Phelps The Salem News November 13, 2013 MARBLEHEAD — With the weather getting colder, Marblehead seems a million miles away from tropical Tahiti. But with a little Hollywood …

International Film & TV Finance Summit December 2 & 3, 2013 The Marriott Eastside Hotel, New York, NY FULL SCHEDULE Bloomberg BNA is pleased to announce the International Film & …

In “Night at the Museum,” Ben Stiller’s character discovers that the exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History come magically to life after dark. So imagine our excitement when the producers of “The Forger,” the heist film now shooting at the Museum of Fine Arts, invited us to the set the other night.

Exactly one week after the end of the baseball season, snow littered the streets and sidewalks of a portion of Gloucester’s hilly commercial stretch, offering a precursor of New England things to come.

LABOR DAY, was filmed in filmed in Acton, Belchertown, Mansfield, Medfield, Medway, Natick, and Shelburne, Massachusetts in 2012.

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 …

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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.

Arms Library’s Pratt Memorial Library Building has gotten a little closer to its goal this week, with a $5,000 donation from the Warner Bros. film studio.

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!

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, was partially filmed in Lincoln and Sudbury, Massachusetts in 2012. Opens in theaters nationwide October 11th! To learn more about CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, click here .

Local films schools Boston university and Emerson College make The Hollywood Reporter’s Top 25 Film School List.

MA Film Office announces HBO and Playtone filming 4-part miniseries on North Shore this fall.

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. …

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 …

Massachusetts made AMERICAN HUSTLE was filmed Boston, Brockton, Lynn, Malden, Medford, Norwood, Salem, Swampscott, Woburn and Worcester in 2013. It is set to open in theaters December 25, 2013.

Filmed in Beverly, Essex, Marblehead, North Andover, Rockport and Woburn in 2012, Clear History is set to air August 10th at 9 pm EST on HBO.

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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 …

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.