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The City of Allen Park is fast becoming a film mecca in southeast Michigan. The Center for Film Studies is moving there from Madison Heights to a developing studio center on So...

VINCE LAWRENCE'S Slang Music has added another service -- creating iPhone apps under a new company, iLL Concepts, LLC, with partners Thomas Beckmann and Jack Eisenberg. First ...

Timing really is everything. Consider: Freelance colorist Tom Rovak attended Foundation Post's recent S3D event and met up with president Samantha Hart, who had been consideri...

Possibly the first comedy to shoot anywhere in stereoscopic 3D will be directed by Hollywood executive turned Columbia College professor this July in Chicago. Kevin Cooper ma...

"1700% Project: Mistaken for Muslim," a video adapted by Anida Yoeu Ali from her own performance and poem, not only won the $20,000 grand prize but also the $5,000 music video/...

Quite possibly one of the first Chicago area company to work in stereoscopic 3D (S3D) is Chris Ryan's Chaos Studios of Carpentersville. Ryan, a visual effects supervisor and ...

HGTV'S "New Spaces" host, Jim Parks, has teamed with Evanston's Brella Productions to produce "Today's Green Minute," a webisodes series based on Parks' popular newspaper column...

A remark made by Leo Burnett executive director Vincent Geraghty, producer of the recent Samsung 3D TV commercial, and reported online, brought attention to 3D stereoscopic work...

Year-old commercial and creative production company, Elkhorn Entertainment, shoots a satirical comedy pilot, "Capital Dog," as its first TV project July 10-11. "The heart...

With her June 30 retirement nearing, Michigan Film Office, Janet Lockwood can finally reveal her secret. Although she's been the face of Michigan film for 19 years -- and ...

Filmmaker Yony Leyser's documentary, "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within," gets a theatrical release from New York-based Oscilloscope Laboratories this fall and a broadcast on ...

GINA FONTANINI, a film composer and music supervisor who worked at Studio Chicago/Music Industry Workshop, is making her directorial debut with the feature "Follow the Leader," ...

Write, shoot and edit a film in 48 hours is the sixth annual challenge made to Chicago filmmakers by the 48 Hour Film Project, to start Aug. 13 and deliver a finished film by Au...

Top record executives are expected to attend pop singer Anya V's concert debut Friday, June 25th at Vain Nightclub in Lincoln Park. The 21-year old singing phenom is the fi...

"TRANSFORMERS 3" IN 3D? That's what director Michael Bay and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura told USA Today -- that they will shoot in 3D and oh yes, it will have "a kille...

Construction resumed on the Museum of Broadcast Communications' unfinished, 62,000-sq. ft. building at 360 N. State, after four years of broken promises and starts and stops on ...

The first canvas photo backdrop Tamara Morrison ever painted was a scene of LaSalle Street, which she painted overnight after receiving a frantic call from high-end commercial ...

A year ago, now-nationally famous "American Idol" runner-up Crystal Bowersox was an unknown singer who arrived for a video shoot in a car whose bumper fell off, with a baby in o...

Evanston Online is launching a news division with regular online video broadcasts of Evanston news, making it "the only video-based news source for Evanston," according to manag...

SOL FX DESIGN'S first project for the Cartoon Network was creating the opening title sequence for its first live action series, "UnNatural History." The (so far) 8-episode s...