NEWS AND EVENTS

Local film rivals team up

Local film rivals team up

A pair of longtime Boston-area video and film equipment companies are teaming up to cash in on the surge of Hollywood movies filming in the Bay State.

Voters OK movie studio

Voters OK movie studio

Voters yesterday gave an enthusiastic green light to a proposal to build a movie studio on 300 acres of town-owned land a few miles from the Bourne Bridge.

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The recent boom in feature films being made around Boston has led to all kinds of action for people who want to act out their dreams.

Voters OK movie studio

Plymouth sets the stage for movie studio vote

Voters here have seen the message on 1,500 lawn signs, seen it on TV ads, read it in e-mails and pamphlets, and heard it in phone and personal pleas: Say “Yes to the ROCK.” That’s the rallying cry for a citizens’ committee that has blitzed the town with their message about Question 3, a nonbinding referendum on Saturday’s ballot in Plymouth.

Hollywood heads to Worcester

Hollywood heads to Worcester

The city has reeled in a big one — and there may be a few more on the line. Production crews for a new Bruce Willis movie, “The Surrogates,” are set to start work in Worcester Monday and will stay through August.

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Hollywood East

To those who wonder whether there’s room in Massachusetts for two major movie studios, the answer from the studios is an emphatic yes.

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Massachusetts incentives boost shoots

Thanks to the state’s newly renovated film incentives, film production in Massachusetts, which struggled along at one or two pics per year, has ballooned to an anticipated six or seven features shooting simultaneously this spring.

Lights! Camera! Massachusetts!

Lights! Camera! Massachusetts!

The Bay State is fast becoming a favorite location for Hollywood filmmakers, with Taunton’s Whittenton Mills undergoing the latest cinematic transformation into a World War II concentration camp for the upcoming film “Ashecliffe,” directed by Martin Scorsese.

Local film rivals team up

Hub’s Hollywood feast

The boom in movies being filmed in the Hub has meant millions of dollars in new business for city hotels.

Burlington Mall is center stage in new movie ‘Mall Cop’

Burlington Mall is center stage in new movie ‘Mall Cop’

If patrons of the Burlington Mall notice holiday decorations about five weeks from now, don’t think it’s a rush to create a nine-month shopping season. The decorations will be part of the backdrop as scenes from the film “Mall Cop” will be shot at the mall beginning March 24, the day after Easter.