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The Patrick-Murray Administration’s Massachusetts Film Office (MFO) today announced the Indian Paintbrush Production film “Labor Day,” starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin, will begin filming in Massachusetts this June.

Independent Film Week (September 16-20, 2012) the oldest and largest forum in the U.S. seeks screenplays and documentary WiPs for Independent Film Week. Apply now!

The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and Screen Actors Guild are pleased to announce that members of both organizations have overwhelmingly voted to approve a merger, creating a new entity, SAG-AFTRA.

Showtime’s Tony Cox Screenplay Competition recognizes an emerging screenplay as the best from the pool of submissions each year.

Women in Film & Video/New England (WIFV/NE) announces a March 1st call for entries for its Tenth Annual Screenwriting Competition, sponsored by Su-City Pictures, InkTip, and Final Draft. The WIFV/NE Screenwriting Competition aims to promote the work of women screenwriters and support the creation of worthy film roles for women

The Patrick-Murray Administration’s Massachusetts Film Office (MFO) today announced that ABC Entertainment’s pilot “Gilded Lillys” will be filmed in Massachusetts in March 2012, bringing another Hollywood production to the Bay State.

The Massachusetts Film Office is thrilled to announce the launch of a new software system for promoting you and/or your business or service to the film industry-at-large.

An independent movie shot entirely in Worcester that deals with the timely and troubling topic of teenage bullying will have its premiere on the Lifetime Network at 8 p.m. Saturday.

NEA Chairman Landesman announces Challenge America Fast-Track grants.

The list of this year’s top worldwide locations demonstrates just how big of a comeback the United States has made.

The landscape has changed a bit since july 2010, when ICG Magazine last surveyed union friendly locations around the United States.

The SoCA (South of CAnal Street) Winter Film Festival, set for February 17-19th, 2012, seeks to provide a channel for local filmmakers to gain exposure and showcase their talents through their work and bring more visual arts to Boston’s West End.

Halloween may have ended two weeks ago, but there were still costumed witches in Salem this week.

Visionary filmmaker, innovator and entrepreneur, Douglas Trumbull, has been selected by the VES Board of Directors as the recipient of the 2012 Georges Méliès Award. The award will be presented at the 10th Annual VES Awards, which will be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on February 7, 2012.

The Patrick-Murray Administration’s Massachusetts Film Office (MFO) today announced that R.I.P.D., a supernatural action-adventure from Universal Pictures, will begin principal photography in Massachusetts this September and that production will occur entirely in the Commonwealth. Through early 2012, the project will create jobs and significant economic activity while boosting the state’s growing film industry.

Don’t count Taunton’s Mayor Charles Crowley among those having second thoughts about the state’s film tax credit law.

“I saw the benefits,” Crowley said. “They absolutely help.”

Columbia Pictures, which shot the feature film “Here Comes the Boom” in Quincy, paid the city $114,500 in rental fees for the buildings it used. The film, starring Kevin James, is expected to premiere next summer.

Peabody is getting a dose of Hollywood this summer, with two big-budget films — “I Hate You, Dad,” starring Adam Sandler, and “Here Comes the Boom,” starring Kevin James — already passing through, and dropping thousands of dollars along the way.

Wyn Trailer WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER?, starring Anna Faris & Chris Evans–shot in Massachusetts in 2010–opens nationally on September 30, 2011.