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New England’s largest media conversation returns on Saturday, November 4th. Tickets are now available for #MASSMEDIA17 at WGBH Boston!

The Creative Board, led by Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. with founding members Viola Davis, Ezra Edelman, Jodie Foster, Meryl Streep, and Residente, is now accepting submissions for scripted and unscripted television projects that connect with the passions and values of the country’s diverse youth.

Beloved cult classic “Hocus Pocus,” starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy debuted in theaters 24 years ago, on July 16, 1993. Although it wasn’t a huge theatrical success, bringing in just over $37 million at the box office, the film has since become an iconic holiday film. So much so that nearly a quarter century after the film first premiered, the town of Salem, Massachusetts, has tips on where to go to see where the film was made.

A motorcycle pursues a robbery getaway driver through a Boston highway tunnel, dogging the wheelman’s BMW. But this isn’t a traditional cops and robbers chase – the vehicles move cautiously, haltingly, the bike almost like an animal stalking prey. Finally, both open the throttle and then the chase is on for real, and it will end with a nasty collision.
This is Wheelman, with Frank Grillo as the title character, caught in a life-threatening trap after a robbery goes sideways.

Filmed in Massachusetts, the X-Men spin-off New Mutants, introduces a new crop of teenage mutants.

Filmed in Massachusetts, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is a biographical drama film about American psychologist William Moulton Marston, who created the fictional character Wonder Woman.

Enter the chilling world of Castle Rock, the new Hulu Original drama series from Executive Producer J.J. Abrams and the mind of Stephen King