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New images from Chicago-shot film, ‘Candyman’

By Reel Chicago Aug 18, 2020

Yesterday, London-based magazine, Total Film, unveiled a couple of creepy Candyman covers yesterday, and the movie mag has now shared a trio of new promo st...

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Chicago Int’l Film Festival’s Industry Days goes virtual

By Reel Chicago Aug 3, 2020

The Chicago International Film Festival, presented by Cinema/Chicago, today announced this year’s Industry Days will be held virtually for a global audience, October 12-18...

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Filmmaker Chantel Chavon tackles racism, mental health

By Reel Chicago Jul 20, 2020

Up and coming Chicago-based filmmaker, Chantel Chavon, makes her directorial debut by tackling the connection between racism and mental illness head on in the short film, When ...

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Michael Shannon responds to Snyder’s ‘Justice League’

By Reel Chicago Jun 22, 2020

Back in 2013, Chicago fave actor, Michael Shannon, played General Zod in Zack Snyder's Man of Steel. While the Chicago-shot film was divisive, it still grossed in the neighborh...

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Warner Bros. delays ‘Matrix’ sequel until 2022

By Reel Chicago Jun 12, 2020

Even with cities and their movie theaters cautiously reopening after being shut down for three months, studios are not risking box office failure with their big tentpole films....

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Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss on returning to ‘Matrix’

By Reel Chicago Jun 8, 2020

While the three original films - The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions - seemed to conclude the series - Neo and Trinity do die - there has been speculatio...

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Chicago’s Harry Lennix hints at Martian Manhunter role

By The Geek May 24, 2020

Last week, Warner Bros made big headlines by announcing the release of Zack Snyder's version of Justice League. In 2016, Snyder stepped away from the production and was replac...

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Chicago’s Gina Rodriguez talks up Velma and ‘Scoob!’

By Reel Chicago May 14, 2020

SCOOB!, a fully animated, full-length Scooby-Doo action adventure for the whole family, reveals how lifelong friends Scooby and Shaggy first met and how they joined with young ...

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‘John Wick’ directors help out with ‘Matrix 4’ stunts

By Reel Chicago May 3, 2020

When the Wachowskis' The Matrix premiered in 1999, it gave film audiences some of the most ground-breaking, jaw-dropping action sequences of the time. Who can forget in the op...

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Peele on why he chose Nia DaCosta for ‘Candyman’

By Reel Chicago Apr 14, 2020

When Universal and MGM announced the remake of Candyman, the 80s classic horror icon, many assumed (including our resident Geek at sister outlet Reel 360) that Jordan Peele (Ge...

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Review of “I, Tonya”

By Laura Day Jan 23, 2018

Just nominated for three Academy Awards this morning (Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Editing) I, Tonya is not made to satisfy anyone hoping to find an ironclad e...

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‘Dress to impress’ advised for Chicago’s Oscar Party

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 11, 2016

“THE HOTTEST OSCAR PARTY of the season” is how Stage 18 and Creative Cypher are hyping their total blow-out of an event, Chicago’s Oscar Party, Sunday, Feb. 28 ...