Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The week in quotes from Hollywood in the Hub

"Make sure you watch me be an asshole on national TV!"

--Joey Rozmus, a 22-year-old tattooed rocker from Lawrence and guitarist with the band Late Nite Wars, tweets about his bad-boy antics on the premiere episode of "Real World: Cancun," which includes a hook-up session with a girl his first night out.

“It’s about this young couple and they have a 6-year-old daughter, seemingly in a coma, but [they learn] she’s actually alive and fully living out in her brain, but is just in this locked-in state. So he’s trying to have his daughter wake up from this traumatic experience.”

--Eliza Dushku gives the lowdown on "Valediction," the made-in-Boston flick co-starring "Chronicles of Narnia" actor Ben Barnes.

"Hollywood has come to me.”

--Cindy Lentol, an actress originally from Quincy, says the recent onslaught of movies filming in Massachusetts keeps her busy.

"In an age when facilities are shuttering or reducing staff, it's great to be in a position to expand our bicoastal facilities and tap veteran talent."

--Brian Drewes, co-founder of the Boston-based Brickyard Filmworks responsible for the special effects work in "The Proposal" and currently-in-production "The Surrogates" starring Bruce Willis, taps industry veteran Marc Saedghi.

“The fact that they’re both proceeding ahead is a vote of confidence in the future of the industry in this state."

--Nick Paleologos, the executive director of the Massachusetts Film Office, says the news that SouthField Studios in Weymouth is accepting tenants is promising.

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