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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.

The school’s Media Laboratory has launched the Center for Future Storytelling with a 7-year, $25-million commitment from Plymouth Rock Studios, better known as “Hollywood East” in Plymouth.

In league with a handful of former Hollywood executives, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory plans to do something about that on Tuesday, with the creation of a new Center for Future Storytelling.

For the latest mob drama set in South Boston, billed as an “Irish Sopranos,” producers of a SpikeTV pilot program knew exactly the look they wanted. Dark and dingy. Hopeless streets. Think “Mystic River” or “Gone Baby Gone.”

Government incentives to bring film companies
to the state is money well spent.

Two made-in-Massachusetts films attracted a lot of attention, namely the South Boston-based “What Doesn’t Kill You” and “The Maiden Heist,” starring Christopher Walken, Morgan Freeman, and William H. Macy. And the benefits of filming in Boston were touted at a sold-out seminar dealing with tax credits.

With a national economic recession well underway and a Bostonian tradition of documentaries and independent films rather than blockbuster thrillers and romantic comedies, the question remains: does Massachusetts have what it takes to become a big star in the film industry?

Actor Roy Souza, a Boston native and a SAG member since 1995, is jubilant about the recent boom. He notes that it is not just high-profile projects that have flocked to Massachusetts but also small-scale indies. He recently completed significant roles in the low-budget We Got the Beat, shot in Worcester, and Lasse Hallström’s Hachiko: A Dog’s Story, starring Richard Gere.

Town meeting members listen attentively during the special town meeting at Memorial Hall on Monday night. They approved the tax break and zoning changes that will allow the $400 million Plymouth Rock Studios project to go forward.

It took a couple of years to get the question to Town Meeting but only a few minutes for Town Meeting to answer.

Town Meeting easily passed two articles last night that will allow Plymouth Rock Studios to move forward with the construction of a $400 million film studio on a 240-acre golf course, after months of negotiation between local officials and studio executives.

(October 28, 2008 NECN) – People in Plymouth, Massachusetts say they want their town to become Hollywood East. By a nearly unanimous vote Monday night at the Plymouth town meeting, …

Officials Set To Vote On Movie Studio Project Monday (click here for video story) Click on the link above to see NewsCenter Five’s Lynn Jolicoeur’s October 26th 2008 report that …

Massachusetts has enjoyed a renaissance in movie production in the last two years because of aggressive tax incentives that the Legislature created.