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Ad Industry says Gov. Whitmer’s ban violates free speech

By Reel Chicago Apr 17, 2020

Five of the nation's largest advertising trade associations today released a joint statement urging Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to rescind a portion of&n...

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Kathryn Hahn rocks out in new Chrysler campaign

By Colin Costello Mar 15, 2018

Westchester Illinois' Kathryn Hahn, who stars in Bad Moms and Transparent, shows off her rockin' goofy side in a fun new campaign from Doner Detroit for the new Chrysler Pacific...

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Doner launches creative incubator D-313

By Colin Costello Feb 26, 2018

Doner Detroit is doubling down on bringing business, talent and marketing dollars to Detroit, with the launch of D-313 a new collaborative creative space that connects the age...

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Best of the Midwest Awards, VML, Huge Detroit news

By Colin Costello Nov 22, 2017

Today, The Midwest Independent Film Festival announced their nominees for The Best of the Midwest Awards Celebration, which recognizes the premier films and filmmakers featured ...

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Lowing Light & Grip buys Deano’s Grand Rapids’ studio

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 8, 2017

Wyoming, Michigan-based Lowing Light & Grip has bought Deano’s Studio in Grand Rapids. (Wyoming is an East Side suburb of Grand Rapids and the state’s 14th largest city...

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Bigelow filming ’67 Detroit Riots feature in Brockton

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 16, 2016

OSCAR WINNING DIRECTOR KATHRYN BIGELOW’S untitled new feature about the violent five-day Detroit riots in the summer of 1967 is now filming in Brockton, Michigan, turning that...

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Detroit’s Hudson edit now collaborates with The Mill

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 11, 2016

The Mill is expanding in the Midwest with a collaboration with Detroit’s full-service Hudson Edit, allowing their clients to share connected projects for color, visual effects...

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Cronk’s latest film receives $2.6 mm Michigan grant

By Mike Morgan May 31, 2016

Faith-based “God Bless the Broken Road,” which finished filming in Grand Rapids last month, is one of the last films eligible to receive an incentive from the Michigan Film ...

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Grant to Waterfront Fest will create new film center

By Mike Morgan Mar 18, 2016

The popular, annual Waterfront Film Festival of Holland will skip this summer’s event and return in 2017 after having transformed into a year-round Gene Siskel-like film cente...

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Michigan post house wins Addys for Onion Labs’ spots

By Ruth L Ratny Mar 1, 2016

Former Chicago editor Dustin Foster and his partner, motion designer and animator Dan Wiltshire, of Chop and Hue of Grand Rapids, struck an abundance of Gold — and Silver — ...

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“Transformers 5” to receive $21mm to film in Detroit

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 29, 2016

Despite the termination of Michigan’s film incentives last July, the state will honor an agreement made with Michael Bay’s “Transformers 5” by providing the production w...

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Film adaptation of best seller to shoot in Michigan

By Mike Morgan Aug 11, 2015

Film crews are being sought for a Paramount feature that will start filming in Michigan this fall: “Looking for Alaska,” based on John Green’s best-selling novel. The ...

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Filmmakers’ fears at the loss of Michigan incentives

By the Oakland Press Jul 10, 2015

The end of Michigan’s film incentives leaves the state’s film community wondering about its future. Planned productions such as “Beverly Hills Cop 4,” “Nort...

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House votes to kill Michigan film incentives Oct. 1

By Mike Morgan Mar 17, 2015

After more than six years of Michigan film incentives that brought millions of dollars and thousands of jobs to the distressed state, a bill to end the incentives Oct. 1 narro...

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Michigan votes to amend and extend film incentives

Dec 12, 2014

Michigan's amended tax incentive bill, calling for an extension of the $50 million-a-year rebate program to 2021, among other changes, won a Senate 33-4 vote and is now h...

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Jones heads new Studio Center, once Grace & Wild

By Mike Morgan Sep 26, 2014

The former Grace & Wild Studios in Farmington Hills that closed in October 2011, after more than 20 years of busy operation, is being incarnated as Studio Center and led by...

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Strong cast in new film by “God’s not Dead” director

By Mike Morgan Sep 25, 2014

Cybill Shepherd and Mira Sorvino have been cast in “Believe,” a low-budget faith-based film currently shooting in Ludington. Also joining the cast are Lee Majors (“...

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Paramount and two indies receive $1.7 mm MFO rebates

by Ruth L Ratny Jul 5, 2014

A Hollywood blockbuster and two modestly budgeted indie features spending an expected total of $56,641,718 filming throughout Michigan, have been approved by the Michigan Film...

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Detroit to welcome the AICP Show after 12 year absence

By Ruth L Ratny Jul 1, 2014

Detroit is the first stop for the 23rd annual AICP Show on its 10-city awards tour, following its June 12 premiere at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. This marks the AICP Sh...

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Former Allen Park studio acreage finally being sold

by Mike Morgan Jun 16, 2014

What started out as an ambitious stage complex and an industry training center but became a financial albatross to the city of Allen Park is in the process of being sold for $12...