Film Office & Commission
City of Boston Mayor's Office of Tourism, Sports, and Entertainment
The City of Boston office that supports film and TV production alongside tourism and events. It manages the application process for filming in Boston, coordinates city permits and services for productions, and markets the city to visiting projects.
Filming incentives
- Rate
- 25% production expense + 25% payroll credit
- Credit type
- Transferable Tax Credit (up to 90% refundable)
- Min. spend
- $50,000 (plus 75% MA spend or shooting days test)
Figures describe the Massachusetts program, not this office. Incentive terms change with legislation: confirm current rates, caps, and eligibility with the office before budgeting.
At-a-glance figures, not yet checked against official sources
Full Massachusetts incentive breakdown, estimator & comparisonThe office facilitates filming in Boston and provides a 'how to apply to film in Boston' resource but does not itself state a financial incentive on this page (Massachusetts offers a statewide film tax credit via the state, not this city office).
Official incentive detailsContact & details
Filmed here
Productions recorded as having shot in the area City of Boston Mayor's Office of Tourism, Sports, and Entertainment covers.
At the Sea2026
Sorry, Baby2025
Challengers2024
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice2024
The Instigators2024
Salem's Lot2024
Absolution2024
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody2022
About Fate2022
Shotgun Wedding2022
Black Friday2021
Don't Look Up2021
Free Guy2021
The Kissing Booth 22020
The New Mutants2020
Godmothered2020
Sound of Metal2020
Little Women2019
Title data and poster artwork from TMDB. Sources: each office's own credits page, and filming locations recorded in Wikidata.
Listings are not confirmation of where a production filmed. This website uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.
Production companies nearby
60 companies in our directory within 60 miles of Boston.
- Sound and Vision MediaBoston, MA · 0.1 mi
- Maverick ProductionsBoston, MA · 0.3 mi
- Brickyard VFXBoston, MA · 0.6 mi
- Brickyard VFX (Brickyard Filmworks)Boston, MA · 0.6 mi
- ElementBoston, MA · 0.9 mi
- Bunker Hill MediaBoston, MA · 1 mi
- Redtree ProductionsBoston, MA · 1.2 mi
- Hawke Commercial FilmmakingBoston, MA · 1.7 mi
- CP Casting (Collinge Pickman Casting)Boston, MA · 1.7 mi
- VAGRANTSSomerville, MA · 2.2 mi
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