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While the use and value of SEO, web 2.0, CSS, et al is ho-hum knowledge to Reel readers, there are many "average Joes and Janes who don't want to be left out of current web tech...

The next two weeks will be busy ones for Nat Dykeman. He's prepping to shoot his feature in mid-March, releasing a film on his Cinema Obscura DVD label and finalizing preparati...

Starting Feb. 26, Concentrated partners Mark Cwiakala and Jon Singer will flex their production muscles for six weeks, producing videos of some of the fittest guys to ever set f...

THE LATEST ILLINOIS LOTTERY COMMERCIAL, this one for the Mega Millions game, via Energy BBDO, was directed by bi-coastal MJZ's Dante Ariola and edited by Peepshow Post of New ...

THE PILOT FOR "ATF" (short for the U. S. Justice Department's Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Bureau) will be the third hourlong TV drama to film on Chicago locations, starting th...

The first 3D technology to run at any Chicago trade show plays at the Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana Chevrolet Dealers Association exhibit at the Chicago Auto Show, now thr...

It sure looks like the new syndicated "The Nate Berkus Show," from Harpo Productions/Sony Pictures Television (SPT), will be produced at Harpo's West Side studios. Although n...

That overly long Hollywood dry spell will finally end in early March, with three TV pilots getting underway, a fourth being talked about for early spring, and a Vince Vaughn fe...

Pixel Brothers is back in the game with an upcoming production of 26 half-hour episodes of "The Treasure Hunters Roadshow," thanks to a successful NATPE showing in Las Vegas. ...

Chicago has a particularly strong lineup this year at the increasingly influential South by Southwest Film Festival, running March 12-20 in Austin, Texas. In the lineup are d...

The Chicago White Sox is the first team in any league to utilize a realistic 3D environment of US Cellular Field to showcase sponsorships and corporate partnerships in action, c...

MULTI-TALENTED ANDY RICHTER, Conan O'Brien's former writer and sidekick, is back atop the list of commercial directors represented by Story, now that "Late Show with Conan O'...

One of the changes in the new AICP/Midwest-Local 476 labor agreement is a provision that helps fund high-tech certification training programs for union personnel, in keeping wi...

Grand Rapids has earned bragging rights to "the world's largest sound stage" as Hangar42 Studios' 450,000-sq. ft. full-service film production studio opens for business in that...

PRODUCER/SCREENWRITER JIM WHITE may prove that lightning does strike twice. He just got the word that his screenplay, "Dinky Dau" (Vietnamese slang for "crazy") was selected ...

Mike Starr has done his share of mob movies. The veteran character actor and onetime Chicagoan starred in the local "Osso Bucco" and has done supporting turns in "Goodfellas" a...

FILMMAKERS CAN EARN MONEY when their films play on Hustlefilms.com. Armand Lucas of HustleFilms is offering filmmakers 10 to 20 cents-per-view to play their shorts on his site ...

The lighting class of Dave Moravec of Pixel Brothers, a part-time Columbia College instructor for many years, had the distinction of inaugurating Columbia College's new $21 mill...

Madison filmmaker Cory J. Udler celebrates fellow DIY horror filmmakers in his documentary, "I Made My Own Damn Movie (and lived to tell about it)." After making the 2009 fe...

WYCC-Ch. 20 is seeking relationships with independent producers, in which WYCC can serve as the presenting station for co-productions to air on Ch. 20 and to offer the program t...