Everyone knows the commercial production industry is big, but how big didn't hit home until the new AICP survey spotlighted its immense size. According to the survey, di...
The highly touted Task Force for the film industry that DCEO director Jack Lavin assured would help lead filmmaking to new heights has been named. As a matter of fact, two week...
Famous regional stars of regional animated films and commercials will highlight the 2004 Midwest Animators Conference April 23-24 at the Double Trees Guest Suites in Downers Gro...
With his first horror movie "Short Cut Road" in stores, Marc Selz is in the final weeks of post on his follow-up, "Unaware." The HD "Unaware" is a step up from the no-budget ...
New Theater Collective's expansion into film is in full swing, with two projects in production.Natalie Berning's DV feature "Equinox" shoots weekends in Wisconsin from now thro...
Handheld Films is breaking from principal photography on its $500,000 sci-fi thriller "Lost Girls" to shop the work in progress at the American Film Market held in L.A. this m...
EQUIPMENT EXPANSION. SMS Equipment Rentals acquired three Panasonic SDX900 camera packages "that are positioned under HD for people who can't handle an HD budget," says owner Ma...
Producer Steven A. Jones threatened to throw the negative of John McNaughton's horror movie "The Borrower" into the river to force the bond company to pay the back wages owed to...
Hardy souls braved freezing temperatures to attend a series of IFP/Midwest-sponsored screenings at Columbia College that presented films in 15 candidates vying for this year's I...
Chicago filmmakers were among the nearly 1,000 persons who flocked to Washington D.C. DATE for the 6th annual Real Screen Summit conference, presented by the publisher of "Board...
Lapiz Integrated Hispanic Marketing topped the seven Chicago winners who were among the 68 U.S. winners of top prize Golden Statuette winners in the recent 2003 Mobius Advertisi...
Veteran L.A. producer-director William Gref? will show clips demonstrating how he created scenes for his low-budget films, vs. how much money Hollywood would have spent for the ...
JWT wins the $12 million Illinois Tourism account, resigned last year by BBDO. Indie film and spot producer Tim Sabo moved to L.A. to pursue a feature/TV career. SAG/AFTR...
Veteran L.A. producer-director William Grefe' will show clips demonstrating how he created scenes for his low-budget films, vs. how much money Hollywood would have spent for the...
At a time lately when "pulling back" is more often heard than "capital expansion," Film & Tape Works' announcement of a major equipment investment and a general growth was both ...
Feature business last year in Illinois was not only a heckuva lot better than it first appeared ? and it also looks like it's going to significantly improve in 2004. Clockin...
JWT wins the $12 million Illinois Tourism account, resigned last year by BBDO. Tom Bernadin is Leo Burnett's new president, from Interpublic's Lowe's/New York -- the first n...
Good news for the film industry, baaad news for smokers. The good news: The Cook County Board of Commissioners Feb. 3 voted not to enact any type of lease tax, or to incre...
Joe Pytka needs no introduction. The King of Commercials ? the director who's made billions of dollars for the biggest advertisers in the world, the winner of every conceivable...
Seven women have set out to accomplish what it took 14 men to do before.The Women's Cliffhanger Project is a more streamlined, structured version of the improvisational filmmaki...
