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This year marks the 50th anniversary of Chicago improv that had its genesis in the legendary Compass Players, which in turn spawned The Second City. Paying homage to that ...

A Global Super 8 Event will be held May 8 at Chicago Filmmakers as part of 40 events taking place in 40 cities, held in recognition of the 40th anniversary of Kodachrome 40, Sup...

CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL early deadline is May 1. For short projects under 60-minutes fee is $40, longer and feature length entries pay $80. Fees increase ...

For the first time, producers can order replicated DVD-5 disks in quantities as low as 100 through Global Video's new DVD Century program. "We can now take orders of 100 p...

"Prison Break"?the first series scheduled by Fox TV for its 2005-2006 season?means more than three months of production in the Chicago area. The pilot was shot in the Joliet Cor...

JOHN LOGAN, Oscar-nominated author of "The Aviator," has made a $43,200 gift to the small City Lit Theatre Company, thereby eliminating a long-term debt that's clung to City Lit...

JOHN MALKOVICH stars in the indie production "Drunkboat" that shoots May 23-June 25. Writer/director is Chicago native and theatre director Bob Meyer who, like his old f...

One of Bob Hudgins' last acts as deputy director of the Illinois Film Office was assuring that the state's vast collection of 25,000 location photos wouldn't languish in the fil...

THE HIP HOP MUSICAL "Pluto: the Opera" with music by Justin J. Mayer lead audio designer at Swell's audio division BOOM! and librettist Idris Goodwin runs June 10-26 at the...

Horror veteran Gary Sherman ("Poltergeist III") returns to feature directing after 15 years with the DV serial killer movie "39," which wrapped production here in early April. ...

The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee announced 107 nominations in 23 categories for non-union productions during the 2004-2005 season. Winners will be honored at a June 1...

Each of us five 2004 Chicago Project Greenlight finalists hoped to become the next hot director of the $1 million dollar feature produced by show creators Matt Damon and Ben Aff...

Paul Traynor of Hay Moon, Inc. is out to make "Witches' Night" a horror movie for grown-ups on a $500,000 to $1 million budget he's raising from private investors. Traynor i...

Juan Frausto's fourth feature, the immigration drama "La Migra," has its world premiere April 8 at the Chicago Latino Film Festival. "La Migra" (Mexican slang for the Border...

Kartemquin Films is teaming with Tribune music critic Howard Reich to document the life of Reich's mother, Holocaust survivor Sonia Reich. Howard Reich approached Kartemquin ...

"Milan is a beautiful city. It's a true European working city, very much like Chicago," said director/DP Michael Neumann of One World Productions. He recently shot a neo sci-...

One month after Tonisha Daniel and her family appeared on a 2004 radio spot talking about organ donation, she became a liver recipient. This year's commercial for the Illino...

Dave Leffel, formerly audio designer at Swell, joined Brian Reed's BAM! Studio as audio engineer for BAM!'s new, second audio suite. "Overall, the new suite adds to our curr...

USAMA ALSHAIBI'S in-progress documentary "Nice Bombs," about returning to his native Baghdad during the U.S. occupation, has been selected as one of 29 projects to participate i...