By: Jon Chesto
Source: http://blogs.wickedlocal.com
Category: Film School Online
The benefits of the state’s generous tax credits for the film industry are now in full view at Logan Airport.
The Massachusetts Port Authority, at the suggestion of the Mass. Film Office, has set up what’s intended to be a permanent exhibit in the walkway that connects Logan’s Terminal C and Terminal B that showcases this state’s movie-making legacy.
Massport spokesman Matthew Brelis says the 30 film posters were originally put up several weeks ago, and plaques were added last week to show the date the corresponding movie was released as well as local filming locations. Brelis says the completion of the “Made in Massachusetts” exhibit was intentionally done to coincide with this year’s Academy Awards ceremony (even though, with the exception of Fenway Park’s appearance in “Moneyball,” there weren’t any Bay State locations represented among this year’s nominees).
The movie posters are hung in chronological order, starting with “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” the 1966 movie that was filmed in Western Massachusetts, and ending with “The Town,” the Ben Affleck-helmed heist flick that was shot in the Boston area in 2009 and released the following year. There’s space on the end, on the Terminal B side of the walkway, for future movie posters. Made in Massachusetts film poster exhibit at Logan Airport
The posters represent a 45-year spectrum, but it’s hard not to notice that 12 of the 30 movies featured were shot here in the six years since the state’s film tax credits were put into effect at the start of 2006. The state’s 25-percent tax credit for local production work was created in part because Martin Scorsese shot much of his Boston-set “The Departed” in Brooklyn to take advantage of New York’s tax credits (although the film’s crews did spend several weeks shooting in and around Boston).
“The Departed” eventually won an Oscar for best picture, among other awards, even though many New York locations had to double for Boston spots. But with $220 million in production work that took place in Massachusetts last year, it’s unlikely that we’ll see another Boston-set movie up for such accolades that isn’t actually filmed here anytime soon.
Source: http://blogs.wickedlocal.com/massmarkets/2012/02/28/new-logan-airport-exhibit-pays-homage-to-massachusetts-movie-making-legacy/#axzz1nr3PSwVC
Source: http://blogs.wickedlocal.com
Category: Film School Online
The benefits of the state’s generous tax credits for the film industry are now in full view at Logan Airport.
The Massachusetts Port Authority, at the suggestion of the Mass. Film Office, has set up what’s intended to be a permanent exhibit in the walkway that connects Logan’s Terminal C and Terminal B that showcases this state’s movie-making legacy.
Massport spokesman Matthew Brelis says the 30 film posters were originally put up several weeks ago, and plaques were added last week to show the date the corresponding movie was released as well as local filming locations. Brelis says the completion of the “Made in Massachusetts” exhibit was intentionally done to coincide with this year’s Academy Awards ceremony (even though, with the exception of Fenway Park’s appearance in “Moneyball,” there weren’t any Bay State locations represented among this year’s nominees).
The movie posters are hung in chronological order, starting with “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” the 1966 movie that was filmed in Western Massachusetts, and ending with “The Town,” the Ben Affleck-helmed heist flick that was shot in the Boston area in 2009 and released the following year. There’s space on the end, on the Terminal B side of the walkway, for future movie posters. Made in Massachusetts film poster exhibit at Logan Airport
The posters represent a 45-year spectrum, but it’s hard not to notice that 12 of the 30 movies featured were shot here in the six years since the state’s film tax credits were put into effect at the start of 2006. The state’s 25-percent tax credit for local production work was created in part because Martin Scorsese shot much of his Boston-set “The Departed” in Brooklyn to take advantage of New York’s tax credits (although the film’s crews did spend several weeks shooting in and around Boston).
“The Departed” eventually won an Oscar for best picture, among other awards, even though many New York locations had to double for Boston spots. But with $220 million in production work that took place in Massachusetts last year, it’s unlikely that we’ll see another Boston-set movie up for such accolades that isn’t actually filmed here anytime soon.
Source: http://blogs.wickedlocal.com/massmarkets/2012/02/28/new-logan-airport-exhibit-pays-homage-to-massachusetts-movie-making-legacy/#axzz1nr3PSwVC
