ILLINOIS RULES! To make up for painful omissions in Best Location lists compiled throughout the year, venerable international locations publication P3 Update Magazine named Illi...
We fear it is going to be a very long election year indeed for TV viewers who opt to turn to CNN to follow the many presidential primaries and other events as they unfold. For a...
After just six months VP and managing director of Protokulture, Jim Olen left the design, post, and production firm Dec. 16. Olen explains his departure this way: “When you wo...
Alex Kyger, with a notable background in knowing how to keep a theatre company in the black, joined Lifeline Theatre - specializing in original literary adaptations - as th...
Here for the sixth consecutive year is ReelChicago’s exclusive and roundup of entertainment and commercial production activity for the previous year, based on official Chicago...
The New Year starts on a positive note for brothers Jeff and Lee Faclis as their Resolution Digital Studios and Show Department companies emerge from the Chapter 11 bankruptcy f...
For the talk diva who reigned in regal fashion on television for more than a quarter century, it was a stunning admission of near total failure. In a lay-bare-your-problems inte...
Two veteran Illinois Film Office employees retired Dec. 30, ostensibly leaving vacancies for their jobs. But filling those positions may not be as clear cut as applying fo...
After a five-year absence, the 22nd Chicago Film Critics Awards (CFCA) takes the spotlight at the Broadway Playhouse in Water Tower on Jan. 7, it again will be the first of the ...
ACTOR MICHAEL SHANNON’S manager Byron Wetzel has optioned Jim Sikora’s script for I’ll Die Tomorrow as a star vehicle for the Boardwalk Empire villain, Oscar nominee and s...
Come Jan. 5, Chicago’s internationally acclaimed comedy scene is expected to attract more than 10,000 fans for the 11th Annual Comedy Sketch Comedy Festival, performing for ei...
A HIGH PROFILE LAWSUIT was filed by local law firm Belongia Shapiro & Franklin - on behalf of its client, Croatian author Josip J. Knezevic, using his Anglicized name ...
GREG ALLAN’S SONIXPHERE tapped New York-based Clint Arent as director of East Coast business development, to focus on New York agencies. “An increasing amount of our b...
To say 2011 whizzed by is an understatement. The year about to end was — everything considered — a pretty good year for the Chicago advertising industry. At leas...
From the imaginative and colorful opening title sequence of “Close Quarters,” we are in the hands of debut feature filmmaker, Jack C. Newell, who is firmly in control of his...
Come January, Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) Central Regional office (CRO) will have a familiar face as its new head honcho. Christine Provost, who has been at the CRO for 1...
CHICAGO IS REPRESENTED in the 2012 Golden Globes awards, with two nominations for Starz network’s Chicago-set and produced “Boss.” The just-concluded (and what...
Did someone mention turnaround? Yes, for the first time in a very long time, there are substantial signs of a discernible, hope-engendering turnaround in the fortunes of C...
INVALUABLE FUNDING ADVICE straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak, will come from top-level representatives of four national foundations known for providing grant money t...
A reinvigorated Chicago Screenwriters Network (CSN) kicks off 2012 with an updated and more conveniently located meeting venue, a screenwriting contest with a writer’s dream o...
