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.
Editorial: Too soon for new film break
It’s too soon to know whether private investors will build production and post-production facilities without a costly new tax incentive.
21 is the number on movie in America!
MFO Variety ad congratulating 21 on being the number one movie in America.
Stars, dollar signs shine in Lowell
Crews from This Side of the Truth, the romantic comedy that begins filming in Lowell tomorrow, have made their mark on the local economy.
New dollars: $544 million attributed to film productions
88 film productions with end dates between 2006 and 2008 spent a total of $544 million in the state.
NECN: Hollywood East unveiled in MA – March 08
Plymouth Rock Studios hopes to be open for business by Christmas 2010.
NECN: Movie projects could bring the Bay State $200M – March 08
The people who used to work at the Wittenden Mills in Taunton, Massachusetts had no clue their workplace would someday serve as the set for a movie flashback to the Holocaust death camps. Paramount Pictures is filming at the abandoned industrial site.
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!
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.
Scorsese found secluded Taunton mill a perfect fit for his film
Hollywood’s path to the Whittenton Mills complex began when filmmakers were scouting Massachusetts for a state hospital.
Hub’s Hollywood feast
The boom in movies being filmed in the Hub has meant millions of dollars in new business for city hotels.
FOX 25: Focus on film industry — August 2007
August 29, 2007 - Fox 25 News Anchor, Maria Stephanos, takes a closer look at the burgeoning film industry in Massachusetts.
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For years, Hollywood producers steered clear of the ‘celluloid pariah’ known as Massachusetts. But now they’re all over Boston, thanks to tax breaks and a warm welcome.