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Hollywood films about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings shot on location last year to bring the story to the silver screen, but not all the for-profit productions have been forthcoming about the taxpayer-funded benefits they’re seeking or have already received for filming in Massachusetts.

First place women’A A s finisher in the Tri-City Medical Center Carlsbad Half Marathon, Simegan Abnet, breaks the finish tape ahead of second place finisher Serkalem Abrha at last year’s marathon. First place women’A A s finisher in the Tri-City Medical Center Carlsbad Half Marathon, Simegan Abnet, breaks the finish tape ahead of second place finisher Serkalem Abrha at last year’s marathon.

“Because the world is being deluged by these terrorist acts all over, not just here in America but everywhere a film like ‘Patriots Day’… Michael Beach, who plays former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick in “Patriots Day,” about the Boston Marathon Bombing, sat down with TheWrap’s Stuart Brazell discuss whether the film dramatizing the 2013 terrorist attack was made too soon. “Because the world is being deluged by these terrorist acts all over, not just here in America but everywhere, I think a film like ‘Patriots Day’ helps us,” Beach said.

This undated official portrait released by the Boston Police Department shows policer officer Dennis Simmonds, who died on April 10, 2014. Simmonds was among the officers at the scene in Watertown, Mass., in the early hours of April 19, 2013, when the Boston Marathon bombers were engaged in a shootout with police.

“They just described him as a 19-year-old kid, hip-hop influenced, cocky and desperately trying to please his brother,” actor tells TheWrap Alex Wolff auditioned for the role of a 19-year-old kid who was heavily influenced by hip-hop and constantly tried to impress his older brother. Only when he Googled the name Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did he make the connection that he was auditioning for the role of one of the two the Boston Marathon bombers in “Patriots Day.”