There’s a lot of ballyhoo in India-based Bollywood over the news that movie and TV superstar Aamir Khan, the George Clooney of Bollywood, so to speak, is starring as the bad g...
Fletcher Camera & Lenses’ new Michigan address will be the Michigan Studios (formerly known as Raleigh Studios) in Pontiac. The official move-in date is Aug. 1, foll...
GEARING UP FOR HIS LEAD role in Stephen Folker’s apocalyptic thriller To Survive, LA-based star Burt Culver is walking 200 miles from his character’s hometown Gary, Indiana ...
Jeff Boyle of Catfish Music in River North remembers Chicago’s thriving commercial scoring business when he started out 20 years ago as a composer and how he has been part of ...
Tom Weinberg says he’s “fast and furiously” completing Baseball Has Been Very, Very Good to Me, his documentary about Minnie Miñoso in hopes for a broadcast on Nov. 29.&n...
NEW YORK’S 59E59 THEATERS continue to provide welcoming off-Broadway accommodations for shows that originated in Chicago. Bruce Graham’s The Outgoing Tide, which had its wor...
The Community Film Workshop partnered with Facets Multi-Media to present ReelFilms@Harris Park – a first-time film festival of independent films highlighting Chicago's African...
GOVERNOR’S L.A. UPDATE. Gov. Pat Quinn’s appointment schedule for next week has not been completely finalized, says a spokesperson for the governor, which kinda suggests tha...
Let the Games begin. Starting tomorrow, most of the world’s sports enthusiasts (as well as many who have no particular interest in athletics) will turn their attention to Lond...
The Hollywood Reporter redeemed itself this year, after last year’s painful sin of omission, by naming Columbia College one of its top 25 film schools in the world in its July...
After the “Boss” wrap party a few weeks back, actor Doug James realized how much he wanted the show to succeed, to endure through many seasons and also to let people know ho...
AFTER FOUR YEARS IN PRODUCTION and 100 hours of footage, director Ryan Ferguson and producer Azam Ahmed are in post-production on the feature documentary Skate or Die. Th...
Go to Team, a provider of high-end video crews and equipment video crews and equipment headquartered in Charleston, S.C., opens its first northern city branch in Chicago with th...
If James Bond were saving the world in this digital age, he would be the first in his line of work to embrace the newest technology by a company called Pivothead. Plus the fact ...
So how’s he doing? As Peter McGuinness rapidly approaches his first year anniversary on the job as CEO and president of DDB/Chicago, he at least has managed to now to br...
GOV. PAT QUINN had to bow out of heading the Chicago contingent at the important TV Production Executives Dinner in L.A. on Aug. 1 due to pressing government business in Springf...
SAG-AFTRA and the advertising industry agreed to postpone their previously-scheduled early negotiations of the union’s commercials contract, the union board announced Saturday...
THE GOODMAN THEATRE continues its mini-streak of turning to high-profile actors with the surname “Lane.” After Nathan Lane’s turn in Robert Falls’ monumental production ...
Like the recently revealed Chicago Cultural Plan for expanding the arts, here is a film professional’s vision of how to move Chicago into the top tier of entertainment product...
A little more than a year after its launch, WLS-Channel 7’s “Windy City Live” is hitting its stride. There was plenty to be skeptical about when former Channel 7 general m...