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Chicago filmmakers Jayme Joyce, a writer/producer and Jessica Christopher, cofounder of makeup/effects company Cirque De Face FX, met last year at the Sundance Film Festival an...

WELCOME BACK, ROGER! It looks like Roger Ebert is returning to television with a new syndicated movie review show from Chicago, expected to be taped at WYCC/Ch. 20. Ebe...

Curtis Jackson, a.k.a. 50 Cent, teams up with prodigious producer (57 films, seven currently in production) Randall Emmett for their fourth movie together, to be shot in Grand R...

THE IFO'S "SHORTCUTS" CONTEST returns for the third consecutive year, to give Illinois filmmakers a showcase for their talent, "and to give the film office another tool to promo...

Social media expert Robbie Abed is so confident about the effectiveness of his services, that he is making one of those offers you can't refuse. Until March 15, he is offer...

Anybody who has watched a young person play a video game from 20 years ago knows that the only thing that's changed more than the games are the gamers themselves. "I was a g...

With "Matadors" and "A.T.S." headquartering at Chicago Studio City for the duration of their pilot shoots later this month and into April, CSC owner John Crededio reopened Chica...

Proving the old adage that "it never rains but it pours," Chicago is now hosting production of six television pilots, the most that has ever descended on the city in one fell sw...

While big-budget thriller "Red," starring Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich, was shooting elsewhere in the Royal York Hotel last week, executives fr...

While the state of TV commercial production is changing as fast as new apps are created, it remains a robust $5 billion industry, when factoring in post, talent payments and oth...

OSCAR NOMINEE STEVE JAMES, an Oscar nominee for the seminal "Hoop Dreams," has told another compelling basketball documentary: "No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson" for ES...

A dozen of the biggest makers of LED lights for film and video production will convene at Barbizon Chicago's March 5 Open House, providing Chicago image-makers with the first di...

On a recent Friday, a harried DDB producer called Foundation Content with a rushed last minute job for H&R Block. On Saturday, Foundation's Damian Riddell directed a live peopl...

A new package of six cable spots for Leona's, the Chicago Italian eatery chain, taps its greatest resource for inspiration: Leona's colorful neighborhood customers. Humorous...

A couple of weeks ago, Roger Ebert took to his Twitter account to remind fans of the 11th anniversary of the death of his close friend Gene Siskel, Ebert's other half on "At th...

After seven years in business, producer/director Charlie Stone's multimedia/video company "that's been growing under the radar in Chicago" is approaching its 500th production: a...

HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER/DIRECTOR DALLAS JENKINS is moving to the Chicago area shortly as director of creative media for northwest suburban Harvest Bible Church. "I'll be in c...

Unity Studios in Allen Park, which recently graduated 106 students in the inaugural class of the Lifton Institute of Media Skills, will start production in March on a feature fi...

NEW YORK-BASED "LIVE FROM MIDTOWN" has a casting call Feb. 20 for actors, models, dancers and musicians of all ages for its variety talent competition coming to Chicago for a Ma...

Despite declining sponsorships and internal cuts, the second annual Chicago International Movies and Music Festival (CIMMfest) fest opens with a "special surprise screening," fe...