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Puerto Rico has long tried to attract Hollywood to film on the island, with success in such endeavors as âThe Rum Diary,â âContact,â âGolden Eyeâ and âAmistad.â
Now it seems that the Dominican Republic has become a popular filming location for Hollywood, so much so that the Dominican Republic government estimates that recent film productions have brought in $152 million to the Caribbean countryâs coffers since the coronavirus pandemic began more than a year ago.
The presence of Hollywood celebrities such as Mark Wahlberg, Vin Diesel and Jennifer López in the country has attracted the attention of the public and the media, who closely follow their movements to the different sites chosen by the film industry to shoot the films.