A REASON WHY Illinois loves those big Hollywood films that show up every year or so. The Michael Bay-directed Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon, dropped $24 million here last sum...
THE LATE MICKEY GROSSMAN'S many friends, colleagues and clients can share their stories and feelings about him on tape, courtesy of his good friends, casting directors Mickie Pa...
AT LONG LAST – Cinespace Studios will officially open during a ground-breaking ceremony on a date to be set during the week of May 9 -- nearly 18 months after its planned pur...
“CHICAGO CODE” creator and executive producer Shawn Ryan, who was honored at the Hugo Awards last week, told guests that the show’s ratings for the next three weeks will ...
The timing was unfortunate but the blizzard made cancellation Wednesday of an advance screening of “The Chicago Code’s” first episode inevitable.
The screening would’...
The Film Unit of Teamsters Local 727 hit a momentous historical milestone March 10 when it admitted -- are you ready for this? -- its very first female member in its 70 year his...
Legendary filmmaker John Hughes, who singlehandedly created and sustained Chicago's film industry in the 1980s and 1990s, died of a heart attack Aug. 6, while in Manhattan, whe...
Chicago ad agencies have been increasingly and conspicously MIA in national trade publications. Either agency PR departments are out for coffee, or they are non-existent.
(Exce...
by Ed M. Koziarski
This is the second of a two-part report.
BEACON ENTERTAINMENT INC.
5125 Blodgett, Ste. 218, Downer's Grove
Joel David Swiney, 630/663-9956
Based in Downer's...
Drawing on a rich tradition of bluntness and iconoclasm, Chicago is home to a wealth of documentarians, from TV powerhouses like Towers and Kurtis Productions to national theatr...
The new Sloppy Seconds screening series from the Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF) kicks off Feb. 4 with Todd Verow's pioneering digital feature "Little Shots of Happines...
Humorist Joe Keefe, Humor Resources' fearless leaderLast year was the best year in the history of Joe Keefe's Humor Resources. Actually, it was his only year.?The la...
Editor Scott Taradash spent two years and close to $50,000 of his own money to produce "Honeyboy," a feature length doc about Chicago blues legend David "Honeyboy" Edwardsby. Th...
Ch. 11 stages will jump Dec. 18 when HD Ready captures its third "Sound Stage" show with Lyle Lovett's 20-piece Large Band and songwriter Randy Newman. The show is based ...