Related: Hollywood S***s on Massachusetts
Who knew the business "news' meant being a business agent, huh?
And these guys are wondering why they are losing a million-six a week? We don't need an in-your-face insult upon a Sunday, shmucks.
"Coming attractions; Ambitious studio projects could make Massachusetts a center for the film industry" by Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist | April 19, 2009
.... Amazingly, Plymouth Rock is just one of four projects that could create 25 or more sound stages in Massachusetts over the next two years, designed for TV, movie, video game, and commercial production. (The state currently has none.) It seems surreal enough to make for a good movie trailer, intoned in the typical basso-profundo voice-over: In a time of economic recession and frozen credit, four brave groups of businesspeople are somehow bucking the odds and moving forward with plans for new studios.
Yes, the brave Hollywood producers riding to the jobs rescue as they loot tax dollars from the taxpayers. White horse has some mud on it.
As for surreality, I get it every time I crack open a Globe.
Whether there's a happy ending to this story remains to be seen. In order to start construction this summer, Plymouth Rock is counting on being the first recipient of a $50 million chunk of funding from the state's new I-Cubed program, which is intended to support infrastructure projects that will create new jobs.
Like we got $5o million lying around this state to give to these disrespectful vampires who are making money with their shit movies (although not from me; I never go to the movies now).
And if both of the bigger projects, Plymouth Rock and ISG Studios in Weymouth, are built, it remains to be seen whether there will be enough activity to keep them busy. Movie-making in Massachusetts was jump-started by a tax credit former Governor Mitt Romney signed into law in 2005. It gives production companies a 25 percent tax credit on any spending they do in the state....
DemocraP, Repuglican, they all suck.
"One of the things that holds us back in New England is the weather," says Nick Paleologos, executive director of the Massachusetts Film Office...
How can that be? All I ever see in the Globe is how hot we are because of global warming. WTF can this guy possibly be taking about?
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Plymouth Rock is the most ambitious of the projects: 14 sound stages spread over 240 acres that could employ 1,500 people to build and up to 2,000 people once it is in operation. Chief executive David Kirkpatrick describes it as "the first really 21st century digital studio." Last year, he committed to donate $25 million to the MIT Media Lab to create a new Center for Future Storytelling. The Media Lab will have a satellite outpost at Plymouth Rock Studios where a half-dozen researchers will explore things like next-generation cameras and digital sets.
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Kirkpatrick, a former president of Paramount Pictures, says much of that Media Lab research funding will come from marketing sponsorships he has sold in connection with the studio, though he cannot yet name the sponsors. He's also a bit opaque about the source of the studio's construction funding....
Yeah, I'LL BET!!! It's TAXPAYERS and he wants to keep that QUIET!!!!
Kirkpatrick says he is counting on $50 million in infrastructure funding from the state's I-Cubed program, along with several hundred million from various pension funds....
Yup, COUNTING ON that TAXPAYER DOUGH!! I wish WE COULD COUNT on that dough for SCHOOLS and HEALTH CARE, but....
Btw, WTF are PENSION FUNDS doing being used for PROFIT-MAKING HOLLYWOOD'S EXPANSIONS?
The LOOTING ALL TIES TOGETHER, don't it?
Paleologos, the cheerleader-in-chief for the movie industry in Massachusetts, says he doesn't necessarily expect all of the projects to be built. "But the fact that they're still pressing ahead in this kind of negative environment only underscores our point that this will be a thriving, growing industry of the future - and that we have a better than average shot of becoming the Northeast's hub of film, TV, and digital media production," he says.
Well, I DON'T WANT THEM HERE when they are LOOTING POUR STATE TREASURY at the same time WE ARE SUFFERING!!!
GO BACK to CALIFORNIA and take your IMMORAL AGENDA-PUSHING with YOU!!!!!!!!
It's a laudable goal. To reach it, we'll need more than new studios and a tax credit, since other states dangle even richer incentives.
Then LET THEM HAVE THEM and GIVE US BACK the NEAR ONE BILLION we have given them -- and the MILLIONS in INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS (stimulus dough) while BRIDGES CRUMBLE AROUND HERE!!!!
What I see as the best way to differentiate Massachusetts over the long term is staking out a strong position at the convergence of film, video games, and digital media.
--more--"I'm sorry, that was a "newspaper" article?
Yeah, the Boston Globe is looking out for the public interest all right.
Do I have to type agenda-pushing, war-promoting, or any of the other adjectives to describe them anymore, readers? I mean, come on.
