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GARY, INDIANA WILL DOUBLE for the Urkaine in "Transformers 3," which is a welcome twist as all too many times European cities are passed off as U.S. locales, in pre-shoots Apr...

"ARE YOU THE ONE?" is the question the State of Illinois is asking in a cross-platform campaign to alert men to get tested to combat the spread of HIV. The campaign, consis...

FILMMAKERS JON SISKEL AND GREG JACOBS won the top prize at the 34th Cleveland International Film Festival and an additional $5,000 cash prize for their feature doc, "Louder Than...

First-time filmmaker Jennifer Burns' feature-length doc will be the only Illinois-made film to screen at EbertFest, April 21-25 in the great Illinois heartland at Champaign. ...

One way to build an indigenous film industry is to educate people who can help make it happen. In Chicago that would be the folks on LaSalle Street. In Michigan, it's the ...

Singer/songwriter and recording icon Robyn Hitchcock performs "Ordinary Millionaire" co-written by guitarist Johnny Marr (The Smiths/Modest Mouse) from the forthcoming Robyn Hit...

Recording artist Levi Kreis and Sundance filmmaker Davidson Cole combined talents to produce a music video that achieved the #1 Most Viewed rank on MTVmusic.com last week. Kre...

After 30 years in business, Film & Tape Works has become the latest production company to fall victim to the economy and changing technology and closed its doors March 31. F&...

Phil Vischer, the creator of "VeggieTales," has been reborn, in a sense, by returning to the business of creating whimsical characters who tell Bible tales to children. He su...

A few weeks ago I was surprised by a phone call -- and not his usual terse Email -- from Michael Kutza, the founder and artistic director of the Chicago International Film Fest...

Global Video's Liz Sweeney has traded her general manager's position for president of the 12-year digital services and replicating company, having purchased it from founder and ...

Chicago's version of TV pilot season is heating up with the nearly simultaneous production starting Saturday on three shows with strong possibilities of becoming network series...

It looks like HD has arrived at the consumer home entertainment level. Sears is now selling Samsung 3D television sets, although there are no 3D movies on DVD or shows on televi...

Wal-mart and Procter & Gamble are partnering in an initiative to produce "family friendly" made-for-TV movies which gives new meaning to branded entertainment. Their program,...

Watch out, world! Digital communication has taken a gigantic leap forward with a new online, interactive, live TVnetwork called "InTimeTV." Nine years in the making, Chicago...

With the hiring of a Los Angeles-based directorial team, whose eclectic mix of live action, animation and special effects was right up Radar Studios' alley, the 10-year old comp...

"The Street Stops Here," TeamWorks Media's documentary about Jersey City's impoverished and athletically dominant St. Anthony's High School basketball team, has its national bro...

A NEW ADAPTATION OF "FRANKENSTEIN" is being developed by Ricardo Islas of Alpha Studios ("Night Fangs," "To Kill a Killer," "Lock Out,"), in which the monster murders his way th...

Life/Style Television is producing the half-hour reality series "The Match Off," pitting competing matchmakers against one another to successfully find the right match for the s...

TIMING IS EVERYTHING, they say, and Roger Ebert's new movie review show comes on the scene coincidentally as the last vestiges of Disney's "At the Movies" syndicated review...