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"CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE," starring 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson), a medium-budget indie police corruption crime thriller, is shooting in Grand Rapids for three weeks, with an L.A...

REAL HOUSEWIVES OF CHICAGO are being sought for a Towers Productions reality series. According to Towers' casting director Becky Cattie, the hope is to find women who coul...

A new Internet campaign for Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana Chevy Dealers to better connect with car buyers was created by online video specialists Big Thinking By The Hour. ...

REAL HOUSEWIVES OF CHICAGO are being sought for a Towers Productions reality series. According to Towers' casting director Becky Cattie, the hope is to find women who cou...

Not unlike many companies affected by the economy, Michael LaBellarte's Outsider, Inc. design and production company has drastically cut its overhead and moved to new and smal...

New York-based Station Films hit the jackpot when it came up the winner in the three-way bid among exclusively coastal companies for the Illinois Lottery's two-spot Second Chan...

George Tillman, Jr., prominent Columbia College alum and one of film Chicago's big success stories, has signed with Story for exclusive national representation as a commercial ...

GAVIN MacLEOD, fondly remembered as "The Love Boat's" skipper and Mary Tyler Moore's fellow TV newswriter, will be the special guest June 8 at the screening of a faith-based...

"We Believe," the authorized Chicago Cubs documentary, debuts locally June 2 at the cutting-edge the theatre in theWit, the new Loop hotel, before an invitational audience. ...

The 2009 Advertising Woman of the Year is Draftfcb's managing director Karen Sauder. She is the latest on a lengthy list of agency leaders who were named to the top honor by t...

SAG and AFTRA memberships overwhelmingly approved new three-year radio and television contracts, voting 93.84% in favor of them. Approximately 132,000 members of the two union...

Michigan will be the location late this summer for a major motion picture being financed and produced by TicTock Studios of Holland, Michigan. TicTock Studios of Holland, M...

In the film biz, dreams often do come true. When writer-director Hugh Schulze and producer Stacey Evenson first began working on Shulze's short film in 2007, their avowed goal...

Beverly Ridge Pictures, the young company behind the $2 million Outfit drama "Chicago Overcoat," made its first foray into commercial production with a series of PSA's for the ...

Actor/director Jeff Daniels' latest feature will have its Midwest premiere at the 11th Annual Waterfront Film Festival June 11-14 in Saugatuck, Mich., where 70-plus films in f...

Hootenanny editorial boutique has brought a former Avenue Edit colleague into their circle. It's representing Los Angeles-based editor Dean Gonzalez, who brings 13 years o...

Evanston writer and filmmaker Paul McComas celebrated this week after winning the inaugural "Best Short Feature" prize at the Talking Pictures Festival for his horror homag...

ACTOR DENNIS FARINA, a former Chicago cop who has appeared in 71 films and TV episodes since his first gig in Michael Mann's 1981 "Thief," was seen scouting locations in Lin...

Despite the fact that the Wisconsin legislature's Joint Finance Committee voted unanimously to keep tax credits for the film and video game industries in the budget, the state ...

The estimated $25 million spent by Michael Mann's blockbuster "Public Enemies" in the state last year pumped up officially-tallied 2008 revenues to $141 million, from productio...