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At spring training earlier this year, White Sox general manager Ken Williams and three of the players stepped up to bat to hit home positive messages aimed at kids. As soon...

With over 200 feature and TV credits spanning a three-decade career, stuntman Rick LeFevour has taken hits from, and on behalf of, stars such as Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, and Nic...

One of Chicago's most durable industry icons will "transition" from a lifetime of operating a film business to doing what he loves most ? teaching up-and-coming filmmakers and ...

DURING THEIR FOUR WHIRLWIND DAYS in L.A., a Chicago sales contingent saw 19 producers, several with possible projects for the state, says Local 476's Mark Hogan. He was acco...

IPA president Lars Ullberg calls it "the incentives arms race," and Hollywood Deadline Hollywood Daily writer Nikki Finke calls it "a cutthroat biz these days." Wisconsin h...

West Michigan will bustle with filming activity this summer, says West Michigan film commissioner Rick Hert, with two indie features filming in Grand Rapids in July and August...

Non Fiction Films of L.A. was the first customer to use the 3,000 sq. ft. first floor space to prep for a two day location shoot for Ford, followed by @Radical Media, also L.A....

Chicago's first, non-station produced celebrity late night talk show premiered July 3 on CBS Ch. 2, with the pilot episode of "The Good Night Chicago Show." Hosted and produc...

"PUBLIC ENEMIES," with a reported $100 million-budget that provided a bank vault of welcome revenue for Illinois and Wisconsin (although unappreciated by Wisconsin Gov. Jim ...

A WINNING LOTTERY STORY for a change. The Illinois Lottery's agency, Energy BBDO, actually assigned its new commercial to a 100% bona fide Chicago production company. Founda...

Karma Entrepreneurs founder, Davis Jones, is calling out to Chicago filmmakers to collaborate on an innovative new web series, designed to promote musician/composer Justin Sconz...

Wisconsin's hard-earned and effective film tax incentives became history, for time being anyway, when Gov. Jim Doyle used his veto authority in the biennial budget Monday mornin...

September is going to be a bonanza month for film festival fans. As of now, seven uniquely different fests are scheduled throughout the state, and others surely will be announc...

CLAIRE CONNELLY, IFP board president, is producer of Josh Hyde's debut feature "Postales," which was one of 10 films selected to participate in IFP Narrative Film Lab's week-l...

Villa Park duplication and video production services house CopyMaster Video celebrates 25 years this month in an industry that has been almost entirely transformed since the com...

When the Shedd Aquarium reopened its Oceanarium exhibit recently after a nine-month, $50 million facelift, it included a 3D animated video of a South African penquin habitat, cr...

At last! After nearly a year of contentious wrangling between SAG and the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers, SAG members voted overwhelmingly to approve a ne...

Despite having recently cut back staff and office space, 3to1 studio's Josh Reichlin claims that a philosophy of cheerleading on behalf of their clients is keeping them busier ...

Chicago actor/director Morocco Omari won the Best Short Film Award from the recent Hollywood Black Film Festival for "The (Mis)Leading Man," produced by casting director Sharon ...

It's official: The actual economic benefits of "Public Enemies" filming in the state were made known today, a full year after production ended. According to the Illinois Film...