The woman who
helped Illinois make
hundreds of TV shows
and generate $2.5 billion
in revenue talks about
the ever-changing
Midwestern filmscape
Christine Dudley joi...
The founder of
Free Spirit Media
offers an
intimate glimpse
of how it all
got started and
what keeps going
For nearly two decades, Jeff McCarter has been working...
Documentary Filmmaker
talks to Reel Chicago
before her twice
Emmy-nominated
film The Tale
plays tomorrow at
Gene Siskel Film Center
This Saturday, acclaimed writer...
The man who arranged
gunfights on the el,
demolition in the loop,
and “Transformer” battles
on Wacker Drive
explains how the
CFO got it done
Rich Moskal helped to ...
“There are very few
companies that straddle
feature, VFX, television,
immersive entertainment
and brand work as
comprehensively as Framestore.”
James Razzall
...
“Structure matters
and character
point of view
is a religion.
You need to be
really faithful.”
Marshall Ross
Long-time Cramer-Krasselt Chief Creative Officer ...
The true story behind the
Melissa McCarthy thriller,
told by the NY dealer
who wore a wire
during the FBI
sting operation
Melissa McCarthy’s new film, Can You Ever F...
“The job of creatives
within this agency is
to make me slightly
uncomfortable.” —Kurt Fries
Last Summer, veteran advertising creative Kurt Fries
took ...
The founder of the
Chicago International
Film Festival
has made it possible for
millions of moviegoers
to enjoy nearly
11,000 films since 1964
It is imposs...
Ethan Hawke
and
Vincent D’Onofrio
let loose for the
Gene Siskel Film Center’s
Annual Renaissance Gala
last night
Sitting in a couple of easy chairs o...
Explore Media has covered a lot of terrain over the past fifteen years. Besides completing hundreds of jobs in locations throughout the United States from its original office in...
On his way to becoming one of the hottest young filmmakers in America, Rhyan LaMarr has proven just about every self-motivational cliché in the book.
He was raised by divor...
Every day in 2017 — when she was not meeting the responsibilities of a highly awarded film editor — Kathryn Hempel was committed to painting it as it goes.
“Sometime...
On days when NBC’s hit show Chicago Fire is scheduled to shoot at Cinespace Studios, chef Mario Aguirre and his assistants from Mario's Catering arrive at 2:30 in the mor...