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“We’re extremely well positioned for the next 3-4 years,” said Paleologos, explaining that if the ongoing labor dispute between the major studios and the Screen Actors Guild is settled by mid-March, anywhere from eight to 12 movies will likely be made in Massachusetts in 2009.

Parts of Taunton and North Dighton are being considered as location sites for a major cinematic production about the Civil War and the 16th president of the United States.

2009 Oscar Night Boston at the Langham Hotel to benefit the Ellie Fund on February 22nd.

Two Massachusetts productions, BRIDE WARS (#1 Comedy in America) and MALL COP (#1 Movie in America) catapult to the top of the national box-office.

Mass. Film Office honors Boston Mayor Tom Menino, former Film Office Director Mary Lou Crane, Walt Disney Pictures VP Mary Ann Hughes, Columbia Pictures VP Andy Given and the most film-friendly cities & towns of 2008.

State incentives to lure film production and jobs may be paying off.

The buzz in the Massachusetts movie biz is that yesterday’s ouster of Screen Actors Guild prez Doug Allen is good news for the locals.

There’s no shortage of Hollywood hopefuls in the Hub.

A sell-out crowd of 700 people dreaming of a Hollywood ending for their recession job search yesterday got a close-up with film industry professionals hoping to create 3,000 to 5,000 jobs in the Bay State in the coming years.

The Rose Kennedy Ballroom at Intercontinental Boston was the stage. Jobs, Camera, Action was the show. A film industry career fair in Massachusetts that now offers more than just a dream for the hundreds who showed up.

NewsCenter 5’s Shiba Russell reported that about 600 people attended the Massachusetts Film Office’s first career fair, hoping to find work in one of the multi-million dollar film projects setting up camp across the state.

Media Services’ investment in Massachusetts through this acquisition is another vote of confidence in the future of our state as the New England center for film, television and digital media production.

The parties looking to build movie and television production studios on the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station have signed a deal they say clears the way for construction to begin in August.

If you have seen the Hollywood movie crews shooting around Boston and want to get in on the action, the Massachusetts Film Office will host a Jan. 24 career fair to explain just what it takes.

The Producers Guild of America has formed a two-year strategic relationship with Massachusetts-based Plymouth Rock Studios.

Born in Westwood, Chris Bingham has worked on some of Hollywood’s biggest films since 1983.

Behind the scenes at ASHECLIFFE, where local residents earned the trust of the movie business’ elite.

So who exactly is benefitting from ASHECLIFFE? The people that deserve the business the most, the Medfield shop and land owners—the heart and soul of the local economy.

Plymouth Rock Studios’ non-profit educational dynamo.

The staid and historic image of Plymouth could soon be tempered by a decidedly modern attraction: a $488 million film and television studio with 14 sound stages, a 10-acre back lot, a theater, a 300-room upscale hotel, a spa and 500,000 square feet of office space.