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At least seven films and one seminar with local ties are playing at the Sundance and Slamdance film festivals that run concurrently in Park City, Utah. Three of the 16 fe...

Steven Spielberg is in preproduction for a movie about Abraham Lincoln and the Springfield Film Commission would like to see the 16th president's story actually filmed in his ho...

The Illinois Production Alliance (IPA) has been a major force behind the Illinois Production Services Tax Credit Act, the main catalyst for the rebound in state production r...

"I love Chicago comedy. The artists are funny, intelligent, have a great work ethic and a strong point of view. In L.A. it's easier to find good pizza than those qualities."?Jim...

Musical heavy hitters R. Kelly and Talib Kweli joined Team Works Media's usual roster of major sports entities, like Big Ten Basketball and the 1985 Chicago Bears, on recent pro...

SLAMDANCE'S TOP PRIZE goes to Chicago filmmakers Bob Hercules of Media Process Group and Cheryl Pugh . Their "Forgiving Dr. Mengele" won Slamdance's Special Jury Recog...

CHICAGO HD, the editing and post house co-owned by editor Steve Panning and engineer Gary Chang, has moved into 5,500-sq. ft. of new space at 1 E. Erie St, in the synergistic co...

What's your take on how spot business will shape up in the New Year? Boom or bust? Breakthrough or same old, same old? Glass half full or half empty? Being a "glass half ...

BRUCE WOOD'S supernatural mystery "The Door" has its world premiere Jan. 19 at the Beloit International Film Festival in Beloit, Wisc. Wood, the owner of Fenway Gallery, return...

DAVID SCOTT HAY'S "Hard Scrambled" will have its world premiere at the Cinequest Film Festival March 1-12 in San Jose, Calif. "This has been eight years from writing the pl...

Intertwining certain foods can cause my taste buds to go berserk, like the sassy little appetizer known as goi cuon. I've had an infatuation with these Vietnamese spring r...

The Illinois Film Office estimated that state production revenues reached $90 million in 2005, up from $77 million reported in 2004 and $25.6 million in 2003. Projections for 20...

If all goes as planned, Mark Vadik's supernatural erotic thriller "The Thirsting" should hit the midnight movie circuit by Valentine's Day. An entertainment lawyer turned pla...

Bridges Media hosts the first night of the Jan. 18-21 Motion Graphics Festival, and promises a product announcement that will "change the meaning of postproduction productivity....

Direct Spotlight Media, a company co-founded by Brian Perraud, one of five Chicagoans who competed to direct a 2004 Project Greenlight feature, produced the latest in its growin...

THE THANK GOD FOR HIP-HOP FILM FESTIVAL & ACTION CONFERENCE runs through Jan. 15 at Kennedy King College, 6800 S. Wentworth Ave. The festival is a production of the Chicago Loca...

I love finding new takes on old favorites. My latest discovery came in the form of a little bombshell delicacy called "Manti." It is defined as small, ancient Turkish pasta th...

James Woods and Peter Riegert will star in "Winter of Frozen Dreams," the feature debut of commercial director Mike Graf. "Winter of Frozen Dreams" is the story of Barbara ...

Chicago's film industry reflected the national trend with a burgeoning documentary scene in 2005. The Chicago International Documentary Festival continued to grow in scale, ...

Jim Finn's retro sci-fi epic feature "Interkosmos," about a team of international cosmonauts in the East German space program, will have its world premiere at the Rotterdam Film...