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The re-imagining of slasher classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street" means sweet dreams for feature-hungry Chicago, as production company Platinum Dunes settled into Chicago Studio ...

While the country is draped in gloom and doom, a music supervisor and licensing expert wants to spread some, well, Joy to the visual media business. Joy Tillis' wants to bri...

Spot FilmWorks' signing of Chris Neil for Midwest representation gives the Madison-based company its second Hollywood marquee name director. Neil, a nephew of Francis Ford Co...

One local production company impacted by the Springer show's stealthy move to Connecticut is Pixel Brothers. It has been shooting the show's field segments for 10 out of the 19...

"What! We're giving Oprah a tax credit?" exclaimed members of the Illinois House in reaction to an amendment to renew the Illinois filmmakers tax credit AND to include talk sho...

BEN BERKOWITZ WILL DIRECT the long-planned feature "Polish Bar" in Chicago, starting in March. "We are committed to shooting and working in Chicago because of "so much talent ...

Since March is the month of St. Patrick's Day, it's fitting that WTTW's March Pledge Month will feature an original doc, "Irish Stories," and for good measure, Chicago native an...

Veteran actor Steven Saltz has taken his online celebrity interview show to a late night TV show concept ? a half-hour of interviews and performances by local and visiting talen...

Founder Nat Dykeman is confident that this year, despite the economy, the 6th annual Lake County Film Festival, March 4-10, at the College of Lake County has all the makings of ...

Media Process Group is producing the Chicago Urban League's new 13-week, half-hour entrepreneurship TV series "nextTV," which airs Sundays on two local TV channels. The show,...

Chicago could benefit from the loss of New York's film and TV production tax incentives ? and the loss of a lucrative TV series. Gov. David Paterson increased the existing...

Rich Carroll, a former Chicago commercial director was killed Feb. 22 in a motorcycle accident in Austin, Texas where he had lived for the past 15 years. No details about the c...

THE FOOD NETWORK is launching an unnamed reality show "like an ?Amazing Race' for expert foodies," says casting director Joan O'Connor of O'Connor Casting, which will hold ...

California is determined to keep its feature film and TV production in its own backyard with a stunning new five-year $500 million tax credit that will make producers think twic...

Independent movie producer Susan Moses said she will find another location for her $6 million, independent sci-fi movie, "Nephilim," if Wisconsin's 25% tax credits and other inc...

For just $800, and with a little help from his friends, Vincent Singleton has directed and shot a music video for Illinois band Written in Red's new single "Last Chance." "Th...

Two exciting parties will celebrate the 81st Academy Awards just blocks apart on Oscar night, Feb. 22 One is Hub the 51 Awards party, where Richard Roeper will challenge ...

Manifest Digital will move to the forefront of Chicago's marketing agencies since receiving a $9 million investment from BIA Digital Partners of Chantilly, Va., a private invest...

Factual programming behemoth Towers Productions has signed new deals with Discovery and author-adventurer James Campbell as part of a projected 100 hours of content it will prod...

Although Concept One Media founder/president Linda Livorsi runs a bustling $1.3 million-grossing production company in Downers Grove, she occasionally gets behind the camera as ...