This was in the Saturday Boston Globe!

Hollywood will be makin’ it in Massachusetts
By Carol Beggy & Mark Shanahan, Globe Staff | July 21, 2007

If supporters of the state’s new film tax-credit law can be believed, Hollywood’s about to flood the Hub. No sooner had Governor Deval Patrick signed the bill at the AMC Boston Common yesterday than chatter burst forth of Tinseltown projects headed this way. “We’re definitely going to be tested,” said Nick Paleologos (above, at podium), head of the Mass achusetts Film Office. “There’s never been two or three studios shooting here at the same time, and that’s going to happen now.” The new law, a more generous version of a bill approved a year ago, removes a $7 million ceiling on incentives to filmmakers. Already, it seems, the law’s having the intended effect. No fewer than three films are expected to shoot here soon, including “Bachelor No. 2” with Dane Cook and Kate Hudson, “The Women” with Meg Ryan, and Steve Martin’s “Pink Panther II,” which will be the biggest-budget movie ever made in Massachusetts. As a result of filmmakers’ newfound interest, Chris O’Donnell, business manager for Local 481 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees , said he’s added 175 members in just the past 18 months. Likewise, Angela Peri of Boston Casting said her business is booming. “There goes my life as I knew it,” she said after Patrick put down his pen. In praising the new law, House Speaker Sal DiMasi seemed to diss former Massachusetts Film Bureau boss Robin Dawson, who operated without the benefit of giant tax breaks. “We had a very poor reputation across the country,” DiMasi said. “People in the industry told me they didn’t even have a category to rate Massachusetts.” That was then, this is now. Asked about his favorite Boston-based film, the Speaker smiled. “The next one,” he said.

I am really looking forward to getting some possible auditions from this stuff!

‘Tis all for now!