The Massachusetts Film Office presents a slideshow summarizing our state's film tax credit, and the results it has produced during its first four years of operation. The film production incentive was enacted in 2005, and upgraded in 2007.
29. That billion dollars has also helped cities, towns, across the state: Andover, Burlington, Gloucester, Haverhill, Hull, Lawrence, Lenox, Lowell, Medfield, Plymouth, Rockport, Salem, Taunton, Woburn, and Worcester —just to name a few.
30. EXAMPLES FROM 2009 : The film “Grown Ups” paid $150,000 to the Town of Essex, plus an additional $100,000 to renovate a town-owned cottage--which helped local taxpayers avoid a prop 2 ½ override. The producers of “Zookeeper” paid $350,000 to the Franklin Park Zoo for the time they spent shooting there--which helped ease the sting of state budget cutbacks that year.