Columnist: Mike Morgan

Raleigh Studios in Pontiac, Michigan is expected to default on $18 million in state issued bonds that were part of the financing for the $80 million studio complex that opened w...

Michigan's largest film production studio will likely default on a bond payment due in two weeks, sticking the state's pension funds with the $630,000 obligation, according a Ja...

New Chicago resident Rosie O’Donnell makes her first film screening appearance Jan. 20 at the Chicago premiere of “You’ve Been Trumped”, a doc about her long-time nemesi...

The first incentives to be announced in 2012 by the Michigan Film Office for an entertainment project were approved prior to Dec. 31, using last year’s $25 million incentive f...

The new Canon Cinema EOS System C300 camera, designed and built from the ground-up for people who shoot movies and TV shows, will be presented at a Jan. 26 open house the Gene S...

Steppenwolf Film’s “The Last Rites of Joe May,” starring Dennis Farina and written and directed by Joe Maggio, topped the Best of the Midwest’s nine category awards pres...

Michigan moved closer to new film incentives Dec. 1 with the House Commerce Committee revising SB 569 and sending it out of committee with a passing vote of 16-1. The Film Produ...

Daufenbach Camera received early RED’s Scarlet-X 4K camera serial numbers 22 and  33 of the revolutionary new cameras that were shipped to buyers a few weeks ago, making ...

After an intense international search Filmworkers Club has hired super star colorist Brian “Crash” Carlucci, whose work for top agencies, A-list directors and projects in al...

The affectionate trailer for “Shark Song,” a fictional feel-good story created by The Whitehouse’s assistant editor Caleb Hepler, was the grand prize winner at the 10th an...

CNGM PICTURES, the cinematic collective that makes films with character-driven stories, holds its “Hats Off to Characters” fund-raiser Saturday, Nov. 12, where guests are in...

The distinctive motion graphics designs on two Big Ten Network shows – “BTN Live”and “Tailgate 48” currently airing – are the result of Adam Martin of AM Films putti...

One of L.A.-based screenwriting guru Pilar Alessandra’s missions when she returns to Chicago Oct. 26 is to meet with one of her former students who writes for Rosie O’Donnel...

Yuri Rutman of Noci Pictures has teamed with two Hollywood partners to produce a pair of reality television shows that will be set and shot in Chicago and seek candidates for st...

Michigan’s film fortunes have drastically changed in almost a year, and not in a good way.  Big-budget blockbusters, “The Ides of March” and “Real Steel” that sho...

On Thursday, Oct. 6, you can learn the latest in creating and producing 3D media and everything in between at L.A-based Createasphere’s 3D Road Show.  Six hours of worksh...

The 3rd annual Advertising Community Shorts Night Tuesday at the Midwest Independent Film Festival, Tuesday, Oct. 1, presents the work of 15 filmmeisters from ad and marketing a...

Next time you’re strolling down the candy aisle in a Walgreens store, take a look at the recently installed, end-of-the aisle “Sell-a-Vision” screen displaying a 30-second...

The Naperville Independent Film Festival starts its fourth successful year Sept. 17-24, screening 79 features, documentaries, shorts and music videos at two venues in the wester...

George Elder’s Luminair is in post on the eighth season of “Mexico: One Plate at a Time,” PBS’ top-rated cooking show hosted by restaurateur/chef Rick Bayless.  It ...