With nine movies in 07, no need to say please come to Boston

December 21, 2007 Nicholas Paleologos, executive director of the Massachusetts Film Office, noted that 2006's "The Departed" was set in the Bay State and more than half of the film was shot on location, but only about $6 million of its total budget was spent in Massachusetts, with a larger amount of the location work going to New York. "Fast-forward 24 months: 'The Pink Panther 2' had nothing to do with Massachusetts and not a single scene takes place in Massachusetts -- but Massachusetts got the lion's share of the location spending," he said. In large part, this trend can be attributed to an aggressive tax incentive plan that was revised this year so that productions that drop more than $50,000 in Massachusetts receive a 25% rebate on everything it spends in the state.

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