Life is a Dream Productions is developing its $500,000 HD feature drama "Gray, White & Black," from acclaimed Yugoslav-born director I. Michael Toth, to shoot here and in Paris ...
Leave it to Adrenalin TV's daredevil Duke Hillinger to come up with the next big rage in action sports. You couldn't guess what it is in a hundred years?unless you're one of th...
Media Process Group's Bob Hercules is working with political consultant David Axelrod to develop a long-form documentary on Mayor Richard J. Daley. The new doc will be an ex...
From his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Guy Maddin has staked out his territory as the leading practitioner of a style that applies lyrical silent film grammar to aggressively ...
a Friendly's Restaurant/Laughlin Constable spot at a Friendly's in Kissimmee, Florida and a Kids "R" Us store in Orlando. Father (Adam Vernier) takes his son (Evan Nave) to...
Rerecording mixer/Sound designer Pat Yacono has seen the future and there's nary a spot in sight. The future for his new Signal Hill Sound is independent films. In fact, his...
For the eighth year, Blue Sky Video's Bruce Himmelblau donned his golf cap, picked up his camera and headed out to the Deerpath golf course where he'd have a short video waiting...
PAULA FROEHLE is in production on her 2004 IFP/Chicago Production Fund-winning short "Up on the Rope." Froehle is shooting on an elaborate set at Resolution Digital Studios, par...
HURT McDERMOTT'S 2004 Slamdance best screenplay winner, "Nightingale in a Music Box," has its New York premiere Tuesday, June 7 at 8 p.m. at the Brooklyn International Film Fest...
The owner of a Texas equipment company is asking for local help in recovering $17,000 worth of camcorders brazenly stolen by a Chicago man. Craig Berlin, president/CEO of ...
THIRTY OPTIMUS "SPOTS"?not about the post house, but 30-second creative confections by all Optimus employees and not just editors?have been airing as commercials on Comcast. ...
Superior Street and director/editor John Anderson's collaboration with music icon Brian Wilson began back in March, 1998. Since then he has directed/edited four videos of the fo...
Fresh off signing domestic and international video deals for their HD horror pic "Cup of My Blood," Lance Catania and Noel Olken headed to the Cannes Film Market to promote the ...
The 23-year-old Indiana Film Office was closed May 6, just 24 hours after its two employees, director Jane Rulon and project manager Chris Pohl, were told their jobs had ended. ...
Assyrian-language film producers Strategic Entertainment take a step toward the mainstream market with the production of "Cousins," their new mixed Assyrian- and English-languag...
Ch. 11 executive VP/television Randy King and "Chicago Tonight" executive producer Mike Leiderman have left the station. King quit out of frustration, and Leiderman was abruptly...
Matt Pletcher of Baby Galigo Films said he's weeks away from signing financing deals worth $10 million to shoot two films here this summer and fall. Pletcher plans a Septemb...
Only Illinois and Michigan film offices remain in existence among the once-strong Great Lakes state confederacy. Cash-strapped states?not just in the Midwest but throughout ...
Veteran TV show producer Jamie Ceaser is working in L.A. for the next two months producing "Movie Club with John Ridley" that airs Fridays on AMC. She was brought aboard by exe...
At the conclusion of the successful fund-raiser for Chicago Film Archives, guest speaker Haskell Wexler turned to founder Nancy Watrous and said, "This is just the start..." ...
