'Wichita' to film in Worcester

From today's Telegram and Gazette:

WORCESTER — What do you mean no one uses Worcester Airport?

How about Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz? The Hollywood superstars are sure to create a flurry of excitement at the underused airport when they breeze into the terminal in a week or two to shoot scenes for an upcoming movie.

Construction workers are building sets in the cavernous-but-almost-empty terminal building for “Wichita,” a 20th Century Fox action comedy in which Cruise plays a secret agent who weaves in and out of the life of a single woman.

According to IMDB, the movie Shuttle was the last to film at the Worcester Airport.

Shutter Island bumped to 2010

Here's a piece of Massachusetts movie news that I missed while on vacation...the release of Shutter Island, the latest Martin Scorcese/Leo DiCaprio film to be set in Boston, is being pushed out of October and into Early 2010. From Variety:

Speculation by kudos prognosticators and Hollywood gossips went into overdrive during the weekend after Paramount announced its shift of Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island” from Oct. 2 to Feb. 19.

Paramount insists that it was a simple business decision. In a statement, studio chairman-CEO Brad Grey said “Shutter” will be more profitable in February: “Our 2009 slate was greenlit in a very different economic climate and as a result we must remain flexible and willing to recalibrate and adapt to a changing environment.”

If so, it’s a sober reminder to the industry when such a high-profile pic (directed by Scorsese, starring Leonardo DiCaprio) is vulnerable to considerations of P&A in a tough economy.

On the other hand, conspiracy theorists wondered why Par made the decision only six weeks before the pic would have opened. Studio clearly tried to downplay the news as much as possible by announcing the date shuffle on Friday afternoon.

I fear that it is not as good as they hoped it would be.