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Disney retrofits Massachusetts warehouse to film rescue drama The Finest Hours
Disney will film in a retrofitted warehouse space near Boston, Massachusetts, for its true-life rescue drama The Finest Hours. Set in 1952, the film will recount the tale of a dramatic Coast Guard rescue operation that was launched when oil…
Matthew McConaughey films Massachusetts as Japan for Sea of Trees
Matthew McConaughey and director Gus Van Sant have doubled Massachusetts for Japan in upcoming film Sea of Trees. The shoot is just the latest high-profile production to come to Massachusetts, following Robert Downey Jr’s The Judge and Denzel Washington’s The…
New England Studios in Massachusetts completes filming on first feature
Filming has wrapped on the first feature to shoot at New England Studios in Massachusetts in the eastern US. Tumbledown is a low-budget movie that tells the story of a widow working on a biography of her late musician husband.…
New England Studios targets film production boost in Massachusetts
New England Studios has opened for business in Devens, near Boston in Massachusetts. The studio managers plan to use the facility to drive a location filming boost in the state and attract more productions on the scale of David O…
Tom Hanks involved with miniseries Olive Kitteridge filming in Massachusetts
Tom Hanks is an executive producer on new HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge, which begins filming this week on Massachusett’s North Shore. The four-part series is based on a collection of stories by author Elizabeth Strout following the Maine-based family of…
Larry David film Clear History doubles Boston for Martha’s Vineyard locations
Comedian Larry David has filmed his new cable feature Clear History mostly on location in and around Boston, doubling the region for the affluent island of Martha’s Vineyard in southern Massachusetts. “People who know the Island well will know we…
Pennsylvania fails to remove annual filming incentive cap
Pennsylvania has failed to remove the annual spending cap from its filming incentive programme for the next fiscal year. The state has a 25% filming tax credit but the annual film fund is worth only USD60 million and this figure…
MPAA report: Location filming incentives a big hit for Massachusetts
A report from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) shows the success of filming incentives in Massachusetts. For every dollar issued in tax credits, the state made ten back in 2011 and films like The Fighter have increased production…
Pittsburgh-set Hatfields & McCoys TV pilot chases filming incentives elsewhere
Limited funding for Pennsylvania’s filming incentive programme means the pilot episode for a Pittsburgh-set Hatfields & McCoys TV series is scouting alternate East Coast locations. Pennsylvania’s programme is capped at USD60 million a year and cannot accept new applications until…
New film studio proposed for development in Massachusetts
A new film studio could be developed in the town of Westborough in the eastern US state of Massachusetts. The facility would be only 30 miles away from New England Studios but could help attract more productions like Mark Wahlberg’s…