Producer Parris Reaves and actor Carl Wright of "When Thugs Cry," premiering May 9 at the DuSable Museum.The budget for Parris Reaves’ upcoming feature “The Evil One”...
Chevy Chase and Lance Barber star in "Bad Meat". Scott Dikkers and Michael Hirsch knew they wanted a helicopter sequence included in the April pickup shoot for their Chevy Ch...
Eric Wetz , Salma Rosey and Franco Reins star in “The Incorruptible of Bell and Devon.”Traveling in Italy last winter, director Anthony Collamati visited old churches and...
“Forgiving Dr. Mengele” producer Bob HerculesBob Hercules and Media Process Group head to Rumania and Israel in May as they enter the last leg of production for their $30...
Hossein Khandan’s film “Chrysalis” plays at the Film Center’s Films of the Iranian Diaspora.Iranian filmmaker Hossein Khandan was so drawn to Chicago when he first vi...
Hossein Khandan’s film “Chrysalis” plays at the Film Center’s Films of the Iranian Diaspora.Iranian filmmaker Hossein Khandan was so drawn to Chicago when he first vi...
John Hancock on location in MichiganVeteran director John Hancock was in Chicago April 23 for the IFP/Facets screening of his horror movie “Suspended Animation.” After ...
Lumberyard Productions' Thomas Stelter, Alek Petrovic and Eric Nordness. Their feature premieres at the Biograph April 25. Local Lumberyard Productions is taking a page ou...
Gloricelly Martinez-Franceschi stars in "Urban Poet," the Latino Film Festival's only Chicago-made feature. Among films from across the Americas screening at the 19th Chicag...
MBC's new home Kinzie & State. The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC), the 15th most-visited cultural attraction in Chicago, will move into its new home at Kinzie a...
Stephen Simon It's not often that a Hollywood feature producer of Stephen Simon's stature comes to town to talk to filmmakers. He's the producer of 25 movies in 25 year...
Stephen Simon It's not often that a Hollywood feature producer of Stephen Simon's stature comes to town to talk to filmmakers. He's the producer of 25 movies in 25 years, inc...
WIDC presents filmmaker Yvonne Welbon with its action award March 15.Women in the Directors Chair's 22th annual film festival March 14-23 opens with an important documentary by...
The ABC Talent Showcase in conjuction with National AFTRA is coming to Chicago in search of diversity among actors for national television shows. Local SAG, AFTRA and Actors ...
America's first serial killer was buried face down. H. H. Holmes, known as Dr. Death , was America's first known serial killer, convicted and executed for a string of murders...
Windy City Films director Tony DeGuide. "Casting is my strong point," says Tony DeGuide, by way of explaining the impressive talent that he has assembled for his featu...
Catfish Music partner Joel Raney After nearly a year of construction, Catfish Music's new $150,000 studio is finally finished. New Studio B features a control room with "f...
"If aliens came down and turned on the television to find out what we're like, what are they going to see?" broadcaster and producer Darryl Dennard asks his attentive audi...
Brett Singer (left) and Simeon Schnapper, director-producers of "Dot," now in video release from Vanguard Cinema When Simeon Schnapper and Brett Singe...
"If aliens came down and turned on the television to find out what we're like, what are they going to see?" broadcaster and producer Darryl Dennard asks his attentive audi...