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FILM DIRECTOR JOEL ZWICK ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and the upcoming "Elvis Has Left the Building") has found a second artistic home in Chicago, where he can indulge his taste ...

Fresh off wrapping production on his second annual "Rhyme Spitters" battle rap tournament DVD, Cherry Bomb producer Rich Seng is on to his next brainchild. He's marrying the...

Top agency creatives from around the U.S. will judge the the Chicago Creative Club/Chicago Ad Federation's third annual competition honoring the area's best advertising and desi...

After Oprah thanked Rhythm Caf? on the air for providing her show with rehearsal space, the Near North admusic house added substantially to its menu of services. Owned by Ji...

BUSY GUYS. Bob Teitel and George Tillman's "Barbershop: The Series" will air this fall on Showtime, while HBO airs their "Soul of a Nation," an exploration of black music in ...

The Lights, Camera, Illinois! program is poised within the next two months to add as many as six films to the roster of eight that have been awarded the low interest loan. P...

The 11th Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video is not only the biggest it's ever been?it also showcases its strongest-ever crop of local productions, spotlighti...

Zack Parker's debut feature, the horror picture "Inexchange," is due for release in seven countries this fall from Tempe, Ariz. video distributor Brain Damage Films and their in...

The Experimental Sound Studio has been around for almost two decades, known mainly to avant garde artists, musicians and media arts organizations. Now founder/engineer Lou M...

Ben Byer was a 31-year-old actor and playwright in 2002 when he was diagnosed with the neuro-degenerative disease ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. Nine months later,...

Filmmaker donnie l. betts first met Oscar Brown, Jr. at a workshop in Denver when betts was a young actor there. "He inspired me to be the kind of artist I wanted to be, "an ...

LANCE CATANIA of X-Ray Productions screens his debut HD horror feature "Cup of My Blood" in its theatrical premiere in a weeklong engagement at the Gene Siskel Film Center begin...

"MAKE THE RIGHT CALL" is the title of the 5-minute video aimed at school kids in an effort to reduce prank calls to the 911 Center. Del Hall Video was tapped by the City of Ch...

Nine holes or 18, or post-event dinner only, the fun's still there at The Hummel Golf Outing Monday, Aug. 22 that brings together 130-140 golfers and non-golfers for the day. ...

The eighth Chicago Short Comedy Video and Film Festival returns July 28 with its largest selection of films yet and its first-ever award. "We have more films this year than e...

A leading improviser and comic actor, David Pasquesi has appeared in films including "The Fugitive" and "Father of the Bride," and Harold Ramis' "Groundhog Day" and "Stuart Save...

SCOTT GRENKE of Beverly Hills/Chicago-based West Bridge Entertainment wrapped second unit shooting in Cary in late June on his sci-fi comedy "Space Daze 2." The picture star...

Hank Neuberger and Terry Fryer's ultra-busy Third Wave Productions produced the John Mayer "Soundstage" episode with special guest Buddy Guy that aired on PBS July 14. It was b...

GERARD JAMROZ' Dogme-style black and white digital feature "Chicago Poems" has its local premiere July 14 at the Lakeshore Theater. "Chicago Poems" tells the intertwining st...