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WITH TIME ON HER HANDS during the SAG strike of 2000, actress Ellie Weingardt began writing a comedy screenplay about an elderly woman who adopts an elderly beagle to ease her...

Robert Michael Huffer, the sales and customer service arm of Teletech Video, was "one of those people who brightened your day every time he walked through the door, remembered L...

When Cinespace Chicago owner Nick Mirkopoulos brought property 21 years ago on Booth St. in Toronto, the timing coincided with the Canadian government's decision to make film p...

A memorial service for Barbara Petersen, wife of Dan Moore, DGA Midwest executive director, will be held Sunday at the Luther Memorial Church, 2500 W. Wilson at 5 p.m., precede...

"The Heart of Hollywood: The Chicago Link," taped last month at the Sweet Home Illinois party in Santa Monica, airs Sunday at 11 p.m. The half-hour show, produced by Resoluti...

Red Car's new managing director, Craig Duncan, arrived Monday after almost a decade in Detroit as Griot Editorial's VP/general manager, with a clear-eyed sense of the chal...

Two sets of national union/guild and production industry contracts were approved last week that allows for a smooth continuation of commercial and non-broadcast work for members...

COUNTY BOARD PRESIDENT Todd Stroger's 2010 $3 billion budget proposes no new taxes, it does include his controversial 2008 sales tax hike the highest overall sales tax in the ...

Both New York state's 30% tax incentives and New York City's "Made in NY" 5% tax credit are in trouble, and added to that is a proposal to charge the largest fees in the U.S. fo...

First it was Venetian night that got sunk in a money-saving effort on the city's part to cut costs to shore up a $520 million budget shortfall for 2010. Now the Chicago's Ou...

If you are part of Generation Y, a.k.a. the Millennials, the Echo Boomers and the Nintendo Generation, one of the best places for you to work is Euro RSCG Chicago. Euro was...

One World Productions' Michael Neumann and crew stepped back into time when they recently spent two weeks on a commercial project, with a monstrous cast of actors and recreator...

COMEDIAN TOM DREESEN will MC the Oct. 27 invitation-only NBC premiere of the TV special shot by Resolution Digital Studios at the recent Sweet Home Illinois party, hosted by B...

Bob Hudgins, the well liked and effective former IFO deputy film commissioner who heads the Austin, Texas office, was publicly approving of the forthcoming transfer of the Dalla...

A band of brothers, allied as Wensel/Mitten Productions, are producing their third multi-layered documentary on hunting whitetail deer with bows and arrows in the wilds of Manit...

When producer Laura Szymber met writer/director Brad DeMarea at a coffee shop a year ago to read the script he wanted to make, she was immediately sold on it. "I felt his writin...

Halloween and Atomic Pictures' annual party, to be held Oct. 31, go together like Freddy Kruger and Elm Street. What started 24 years ago as a fun, costume Halloween party ...

THE PANAMERA, Porsche's first four-seat sports car, is being introduced this month with a "Welcome to the Family" campaign from Cramer-Krasselt/Chicago, which includes TV, webs...

Thieves broke into the van of Saint Motel while the emerging indie-pop band from L.A. was taping an in-studio performance at JBTV, during their three week tour of the U.S. ...

One of Chicago's claims to Oscar fame is the fact that the golden statuettes are made here. But a lesser-known Oscar connection is that the Chicago International Children's Fil...