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Increased commercial shoot days were the only growth sign amid an otherwise listless local production industry in 2009, based on figures from the Chicago Film Office. Studio ...

Pixel Brothers is one "brother" short with the split last month of partner Andrew Ryann, who left the company he helped found six years ago to return to his roots: producing co...

"Leverage," returning to TNT Jan. 13 for another season of 15 episodes, will have "newer, better, cooler types of gadgets in general," says Twisted Media's Derek Frederickson, w...

Pixel Brothers' partners Mike Torchia and Dave Moravec must feel like Mark Twain who once famously stated, "The report of my death is greatly exaggerated." Despite the fallo...

The new two-year commercials contract between the DGA and the AICP covers salary increases, the adoption of a code of preferred practices on creative rights and provisions prote...

OSCAR-WINNING ACTOR Phillip Seymour Hoffman will appear Jan. 28 at the Music Box for a special screening of his directorial debut, "Jack Goes Boating." It's a story about two...

VINCE VAUGHN will team up with director Ron Howard for the first time this spring on an untitled comedy about infidelity. Vaughn always can be counted on to boost Chicago a...

Chicago's only major representation at the Slamdance Film Festival will open the 15th annual alternative to Sundance Jan. 22 in Park City, Utah, with a Jan. 27 encore screening....

The state of Hawaii laid off most of its film office employees, to an outcry from film industry executives and artists who warned that Hawaii may miss out on some lucrative Holl...

Michigan film spending jumped to $214 million in 2009. More than 130 applications for movie and TV show projects were approved for the incentives, and 84 projects finished fil...

Simage Network has ambitious plans for the year ahead and is seeking new ideas to be part of them. "We are taking pitches for original programming, just on a micro scale,"...

IN TWO SPOTS for Advocate Lutheran General/Hoffman York, Milwaukee, Robert von Bjal, placed live action performances into a virtual set, comprised of synthetic lighting and pro...

Sundance and CineVegas programmer Mike Plante bought lunch one day for a filmmaker friend. "Instead of owing me lunch, why not make a film for that same money?" Plante writes i...

DP IAN ISSITT of New Bound Media and producer/director Angela Snow of Chicago/L.A.-based To the Moon Productions, are shooting a documentary following circus acts that will co...

Milwaukee digital marketing firm Fullhouse Interactive will expand its Chicago presence mid-month, as client MillerCoors rolls out a Super Bowl mobile game that Fullhouse develo...

CHICAGOANS HEADING FOR SUNDANCE will find a haven in Park City, Utah at the snazzy Jan. 23 cocktail party hosted on behalf of Columbia College by Denis Healy, Brenda Sexton a...

The partners of Chicago's first hybrid digital media company, Utopic, officially opening for business Jan. 4 in River West, are perched on the crest of the first major transform...

Steppenwolf Films is the producing entity for "The Last Rites of Joe May," a low budget indie starring home boy Dennis Farina that wrapped Dec. 19 after a four-weeks of shooting...

Media Process Group moved into its West Loop facility in 2005 in part to be closer to Harpo Studios, which is just a few blocks east of MPG on Washington Boulevard. But eve...

JOE LYONS' dramatic short script, "Salvaging," won the 2010 IFP/Production Fund Grant out of "an unprecedented number of finalists," said Production Fund co-chair Laurel Ward. ...