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Meryl Streep as President Janie Orlean in “Don’t Look Up.” This rally scene was fi lmed inside the DCU Center in Worcester. NIKO TAVERNISE/NETFLIX
Making Hollywood magic at home Dexter, Whitney Houston, ‘Black Panther’ and Worcester’s big year in popular culture Craig S. Semon Worcester Magazine | USA TODAY NETWORK
f there was any doubt that Worcester has become a hotbed for Hollywood productions, all you have to do is look at the success of 2021, which has turned out to be the city’s busiest fi lm-making year yet. h In 2021, major motion-picture and television projects with scenes shot in Worcester included “Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever,” “Confess, Fletch,” “Dexter: New Blood,” “Salvation,” “Spirited,” “The Tender Bar” and the Whitney Houston biopic “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” while projects released this year with scenes shot in Worcester include “New Guy,” a majority of “Dexter: New Blood,” “Don’t Look Up” and, once again, “The Tender Bar.” h And rumor has it, there are already two movies projects lined up to fi lm in Worcester for 2022. h Despite the stranglehold of COVID-19, Spider-Man and his multiverses have nothing on Worcester when it comes to the diff erent stories, realities and timelines unfolding in front of the camera. h The following is a look back at the year that was. See YEAR, Page 13
