Bill Hogan Jr., long-time leader of Teamsters Local 714, whose members are movie industry vehicle drivers, has been cited as a focus in the investigation of Chicago Teamst...
ANUP KURIAN'S debut feature "Manasarovar" is India's official entry in the British Film Institute's London Film Festival Oct. 31. The London fest will be the official pr...
As the countdown to the election moves into its final days, Suree Towfighnia and Andrew Piccone are racing to keep their political comedy "Plan B" true to the unfolding re...
O'Connor Casting added full-time session director Lynn Ann Bernatowicz, a former play director for Goodman, Shattered Globe, Circle and University of Pittsburgh theatres. ...
After playing for 43 weeks in Grand Rapids, "Uncle Nino," the heartwarming Robert Shallcross-David James independent family feature, has signed a deal with a Chicago-based...
If they build it, will they come? That's the expectation of Canadian-owned Raleigh Studios of Santa Monica, and the local developers behind the $43.7 million Central City Studi...
A Utah professor developing a robotic brain and the sponsor of an annual artificial intelligence contest are two of Ken Gumbs' first interviews for his feature documentary "It's...
Writer/director Catherine Crouch reunites with "Stray Dogs" star Guinevere Turner ("Go Fish") for Crouch's sophomore feature "Metamora," a horror pic she described as "a l...
If you've always wanted a peek inside the homes of morning radio DJ's Mancow Muller of Q101 or Mike North of The Score, your chance is here, via the celebrity house tour s...
Writer/Producer L. Pat Williams' SerpentWise Films is halfway to financing its $5 million horror movie "10,000 Doors" to shoot here next year."We've got $2.5 million in escr...
Filip K. Rymsza is repping Warsaw, Poland 35mm blowup facility Digital Lab, which offers HD to 35mm Arri-LASER transfers starting at $250/minute, along with a variety of d...
Two Home and Garden reality shows will shoot their entire 26-episode seasons here beginning in January, pending budgetary approval between HGTV and production company Pie ...
Carpentersville filmmaker Michael Lansu is taking a more personal approach to "Resurrection Mary," the followup to his 2002 debut feature "Boo! The Movie."Lansu loosely base...
Business film scriptwriter Catherine Rategan interviews Eric Anderson, a 34-year-old screenwriter and graphic designer who lives in Oak Park. He was a semi-finalist in th...
Leading local industry speakers combine with professors of prestigious universities to bring new thinking and global overviews to Advertising That Works, a three-day conference ...
Call it the battle of the big agencies shooting it out for honors at the recent second annual Chicago Creative Club Awards show. Four big agencies won 29 of the 32 categories o...
"DIRTY WORK," a feature from Jennifer Vincent's Blue Horseshoe Productions, is in postproduction with Sharon Zurek editing. Award- winning Bruce Terris ("Flying") co-wrote...
Production house Tri-Marq Communications, Inc. has joined forces with new Milwaukee post and effects outfit Backlot Imaging, Inc. to offer a combined range of services inc...
Mayor Daley and Alderman Bernard L. Stone at a recent City Council meeting introduced an ordinance to fund CAN TV that will help close the funding gap caused by the failure of c...
When it came time for Panasonic's consumer division to deliver on its agreement to supply new images for its multi-screen Panasonic display at Abt Electronics' giant appli...
