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Category: FILM

Chicago teen filmmaker Aeris Danet becomes youngest winner in CHFF history
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Chicago teen filmmaker Aeris Danet becomes youngest winner in CHFF history

By Reel Chicago May 30, 2025
In a genre built on unexpected twists, no one at the 2025 Chicago Horror Film Festival (CHFF) was expecting the breakout star of the weekend to be a 15-year-old from Orland Par...
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Tribeca 2025: Vince Lawrence and the revolutionary beat of Move Ya Body
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Tribeca 2025: Vince Lawrence and the revolutionary beat of Move Ya Body

By Reel Chicago Apr 24, 2025
In Move Ya Body: The Birth of House, director Elegance Bratton doesn’t just document a genre — he resurrects a movement. The film pulses with history, culture, and soul, pl...
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Chicago is the unseen co-star of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners
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Chicago is the unseen co-star of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners

By Reel Chicago Apr 21, 2025
​Ryan Coogler's Sinners has made a significant impact at the box office, debuting with $45.6 million domestically and $63.5 million worldwide during its Easter weekend releas...
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From Chef to Boss: Jeremy Allen White rocks CinemaCon as Bruce Springsteen
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From Chef to Boss: Jeremy Allen White rocks CinemaCon as Bruce Springsteen

By Reel Chicago Apr 4, 2025
At CinemaCon 2025 in Las Vegas, actors Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong unveiled the first trailer for the upcoming biopic Deliver Me from Nowhere, which chronicles the cre...
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Ayo Edebiri in talks to write and star in Barney movie
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Ayo Edebiri in talks to write and star in Barney movie

By Barbara Roche Feb 26, 2025
In a groundbreaking move, Ayo Edebiri, the Emmy-winning star of The Bear, has been selected to pen the screenplay for a live-action "Barney" movie. Edebiri is also in discussio...
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Laoch: Defy the Odds to screen at Chicago Irish Film Festival
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Laoch: Defy the Odds to screen at Chicago Irish Film Festival

By Reel Chicago Feb 20, 2025
A compelling documentary film about Ireland’s only dwarf powerlifter, Laoch: Defy the Odds, makes its North American premiere at the Chicago Irish Film Festival on Satur...
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The Devil in the White City finds new life at 20th Century Studios
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The Devil in the White City finds new life at 20th Century Studios

By Reel Chicago Jan 22, 2025
The long-gestating adaptation of Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City has found yet another potential path forward, as 20th Century Studios picks up the project. Thi...
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Actor Shreyas Manju is studying filmmaking in Chicago
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Actor Shreyas Manju is studying filmmaking in Chicago

By Barbara Roche Jan 20, 2025
Bangalore-born Kannada actor Shreyas Manju, known for his roles in Padde Huli and Raana, is currently in the United States to enhance his acting skills. The son of renowned Kan...
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Iconic Home Alone house sells for $5.5 million
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Iconic Home Alone house sells for $5.5 million

By Reel Chicago Jan 16, 2025
The Home Alone house, an enduring symbol of holiday nostalgia and cinematic magic, has officially sold for $5.5 million after going under contract in June 2024. Located on Linc...
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Sisters in Cinema creates mentorship program
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Sisters in Cinema creates mentorship program

By Reel Chicago Oct 11, 2024
Sisters in Cinema, established in 1997 as an online platform dedicated to African American women media creators, has joined forces with six Black women industry experts to offe...
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Chicago Film Archives celebrates 20th Anniversary at the Music Box
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Chicago Film Archives celebrates 20th Anniversary at the Music Box

By Reel Chicago Sep 19, 2024
Chicago Film Archives celebrates its 20th year with a screening at the Music Box Theatre with some of the most enjoyable and fascinating films they have preserved over the year...
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Celebrating a timeless classic: I, Robot 20 years later
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Celebrating a timeless classic: I, Robot 20 years later

By Reel Chicago Jul 28, 2024
In the summer of 2004, audiences were introduced to a futuristic vision of the world through Alex Proyas's film I, Robot. Based loosely on the works of legendary science ficti...
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Still fetch 20 years later: Celebrating Mean Girls
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Still fetch 20 years later: Celebrating Mean Girls

By Reel Chicago Jun 20, 2024
Two decades ago, on April 30, 2004, a high school comedy named Mean Girls hit theaters and quickly became a cultural touchstone. Directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey...
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Taking the Red Pill: Celebrating The Matrix 25 years later
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Taking the Red Pill: Celebrating The Matrix 25 years later

By Colin Costello Jun 13, 2024
In 1999, Lilly and Lana Wachowski asked movie audiences to take a red pill and join them on a ground-breaking sci-fi journey, The Matrix. Thankfully audiences did and we woke ...
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Movie poster for ‘Civil War’ is being blasted by Chicagoans
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Movie poster for ‘Civil War’ is being blasted by Chicagoans

By Barbara Roche Apr 23, 2024
What have they done to Marina Towers? A24's promotion for Civil War, currently #1 at the box-office, has created a backlash of comments on social media. The studio's decisi...
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Indigo Girls songs reimagined for Glitter & Doom, screening at Music Box
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Indigo Girls songs reimagined for Glitter & Doom, screening at Music Box

By Barbara Roche Mar 14, 2024
I love when the music on my playlist from the 70s and 80s is rediscovered by a new generation. Tracy Chapman is back on the charts. Joni Mitchell is back on tour. The Indigo Gi...
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Ferris Bueller spinoff film finds its director
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Ferris Bueller spinoff film finds its director

By Reel Chicago Feb 20, 2024
Paramount Pictures is gearing up for the much-anticipated spinoff of the beloved 1980s classic, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and they've enlisted David Katzenberg to helm the proj...
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Emagine Theatre brings dementia friendly screenings to Batavia
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Emagine Theatre brings dementia friendly screenings to Batavia

By Reel Chicago Feb 9, 2024
Emagine Entertainment announces that they will be offering Dementia Friendly Screenings once a month at the Emagine Batavia Theatre providing those with dementia and their care...
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The Bear: Ebon Moss-Bachrach addresses Fantastic Four rumors
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The Bear: Ebon Moss-Bachrach addresses Fantastic Four rumors

By Reel 360 Jan 22, 2024
Will Ebon Moss-Bachrach soon be trading, "Yes, Chef?" for "It's Clobbering Time?" In a recent interview with TheWrap, actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach was pressed about the swirling r...
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Was new Mean Girls movie mean to Lindsay Lohan?
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Was new Mean Girls movie mean to Lindsay Lohan?

By Reel Chicago Jan 17, 2024
What initially seemed like Lindsay Lohan's endorsement of the new Mean Girls movie took a turn, as reports suggest she is "hurt and disappointed" by a seemingly insensitive jok...
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