Matt Damon and Casey Affleck and crews have taken over Bova's in the North End to film scenes from a movie in which they play thieves whose robbery attempt goes awry. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 03/22/2023 - 2:35pm
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By adamg - Fri, 11/20/2015 - 1:20pm
Jean Nagy captured Grayson Boomer in period costume in the North End today for Ben Affleck's movie.
By adamg - Thu, 11/19/2015 - 2:20pm
By adamg - Wed, 11/11/2015 - 5:35pm
NorthEndWaterfront.com reports everybody's favorite Cambridge actor-turned-director will be filming scenes for a Lehane-based novel in the North End next week.
By adamg - Mon, 02/25/2013 - 12:09am
By adamg - Sun, 07/29/2012 - 10:09am
South Boston native Billy Baker has a long exposition in the Globe today on the decline of Olde South Boston.
By adamg - Wed, 09/23/2009 - 12:31pm
Not everybody in the North End is thrilled to bits that Affleck's "The Town" will take over pieces of the North End for filming next month (hey, they're closing the entire Charlestown Bridge during daylight on both 10/3 and 10/4). La Diaba begins to ponder her own personal protest when the crews take over her street:
I'm not saying I want to ruin their shoot, just make their digital erasing guys pull down some very expensive overtime hours in post. Any ideas?
By oddjob60 - Wed, 09/16/2009 - 9:23am
Watch where you walk these days, or you might be inadvertently immortalized on film, as Kevin James and a few dozen of his closest friends film "The Zookeeper" in the Public Garden and Back Bay (via Hub on Location), and Ben Affleck and his sweetie Jennifer Garner draw crowds and snarl the snarled traffic in Harvard Square while filming "The Town" (via
By adamg - Fri, 08/22/2008 - 8:27pm
Now, don't get me wrong. I thought "Good Will Hunting" was a very good movie and am glad it won a couple of Oscars. And it does a far better job at capturing the real Boston than, say, "Celtics Pride" or "Blown Away" (to the point of including a line that only a local who was around before CharlieCards would understand: "He wanted to get you a T pass"). But even a movie written by a pair of locals has its errors:
Mind your Ps and Qs
When Lambeau goes to the boiler room to find out who the genius kid is, the head blob janitor eventually pulls out an index card that lists Will's address as "Q Street." There is no Q Street in South Boston (or anywhere else in the city).
Who da Man?
When Will walks out of court, he crosses in front of a blue-and-white "Metro Police" car. Boston no longer has any Metro Police, but even when we did, their cruisers never shared the blue-stripe-on-white scheme of Boston police.
Next stop: Quincy-Adams
Quick geography lesson: MIT is north of South Boston. Dorchester is south of South Boston. So why was Will always shown going through Dorchester on his way home from MIT? Maybe he was so deep in thought he kept missing his stop?
By adamg - Mon, 07/31/2006 - 11:16pm
Dave Copeland stops just short of calling for an Affleck ban at Sox home games:
By adamg - Wed, 06/14/2006 - 2:07pm
The Girl in Camo hangs with Ben Affleck. Well, gets to the bar when Jennifer Garner's better half is there:
By adamg - Tue, 06/13/2006 - 2:46pm
Mike Mennonno dishes the dirt on rundown Meaney Park and why it's all the ubiquitous actor's fault.
