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Streaming

Filmed in Chicago, ‘The Bear’ has been picked up to series on FX

By Reel Chicago Oct 18, 2021

The Bear, a half-hour comedy about a young chef who returns to Chicago to run the family restaurant, has been picked up to series, it was announced today by Nick Grad, Presiden...

Streaming

4400 series premiere promo and official synopsis of first episode

By Reel Chicago Oct 18, 2021

Filmed in Chicago, 4400 series premiere, titled Past Is Prologue, airs on Monday, October 25, at 8 PM CST on The CW. The original The 4400 series ran for 4 years and 44 epis...

BREAKING NEWS

IATSE and AMPTP reach tentative collective bargaining agreement

By Reel Chicago Oct 16, 2021

While the agreements with Chicago Local 476 were still in place, a nationwide walk-out was looming at 12:01 a.m. Monday, if the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Empl...

Reel Indie

Chicago filmmakers release crime drama/mystery ‘The Cleaner’

By Reel Chicago Oct 15, 2021

Chicago filmmakers release the Indie crime drama feature, The Cleaner. Distributed by 1091 Pictures, the story follows a middle-aged house cleaner who gets caught up in a viole...

NEW WORK

Babyganics celebrates perfectly imperfect parents

By Reel Chicago Oct 15, 2021

With its new campaign, baby products brand Babyganics is acknowledging and challenging today’s cultural conversation of what it means to be a “perfect” parent. “H...

Reel People

The reinventions of Irene Michaels

By Suzanne Tripaldi Oct 15, 2021

Irene Michaels, who will be singing with the ensemble, OUR HOUSE at the Jazz Showcase on Monday, October 18, continues to reinvent herself with an impressive list of adventures...

BLACK HARVEST

Full festival schedule for the 27th Annual Black Harvest Film Festival

By Reel Chicago Oct 15, 2021

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center announces the full festival schedule for its 27th Annual Black Harvest Film Festival, which will take pla...

REEL PRO

Yolonda Ross on shaving her head for The Chi & $100k breast cancer donation

By Reel Chicago Oct 15, 2021

Yolonda Ross, star of the ground-breaking Showtime series The Chi, announced with Rhonda Feinberg, a special donation of $100,000, funded by The Joseph and Bessie Feinberg Foun...

CHIFILMFEST

57th Chicago International Film Fest announces competition juries

By Reel Chicago Oct 15, 2021

The 57th Chicago International Film Festival announced the esteemed members of the juries for its competitions, featuring acclaimed filmmakers and industry luminaries from arou...

Events

FACETS 38th Annual Chicago International Children’s Film Fest

By Reel Chicago Oct 15, 2021

FACETS 38th Annual Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (CICFF), one of only two Academy Award qualifying international children’s film festivals in the worl...

Behind The Scenes

Behind the Scenes of ‘Respect’ and ‘The Many Saints of Newark’

By Reel Chicago Oct 14, 2021

Kramer Morgenthau, ASC takes Panavision behind the scenes of the period features Respect and The Many Saints of Newark. On the surface, a biopic about “Queen of Soul�...

Events

Energy BBDO volunteers with 826CHI to bring kids’ words to life

By Reel Chicago Oct 14, 2021

Chicago nonprofit, 826CHI, is holding their biggest fundraising event of the year today, October 14th! “Eat Your Words” aims to raise enough money to ensure 750 local...

Reel Ad of the Week

11 Dollar Bill helps Piggyback create a buzz for Cheeba Chews

By Reel Chicago Oct 13, 2021

11 Dollar Bill ended things on a high note in providing editorial, graphics design and post services for a new social campaign for Cheeba Chews, a maker of bite-size cannabis e...

REEL MOVES

Optimus Promotes Zach Scheitlin to Audio Engineer

By Reel Chicago Oct 13, 2021

Optimus today announced that Zach Scheitlin has been promoted to Audio Engineer. Scheitlin’s elevation bolsters an already formidable audio team under the leadership o...

How a trailblazing woman made Chicago the home of improv

By Reel Chicago Oct 12, 2021

Chicago’s greatest cultural export just might be improv theater, which was born at Jane Addams’ Hull House during the Great Depression and carried out into the world by the...

NEW WORK

Champion celebrates iconic franchise with Reverse Weave Week

By Reel Chicago Oct 12, 2021

Champion Athleticwear announces Reverse Weave Week! The week, full of giveaways and collabs, will run through October 19 to acknowledge the anniversary of their ...

Reel People

Andre De Shields to receive Sarah Siddons Actor of the Year Award

By Reel Chicago Oct 12, 2021

Tony Award Winner and multi-Tony nominee André De Shields will be honored by the Sarah Siddons Society when he is presented the organization’s 66th Annual Actor of the Year ...

REEL PRO

Chicago’s love/hate relationship with major film productions

By Joia DaVida and Barbara Roche Oct 8, 2021

Chicago's disenchantment with filmmaking, and how Cinespace Chicago Film Studios, the largest film studio in the U.S. partners with their neighbors. The film industry has st...

CITY NEWS

Chicago chosen #1 Best Big City in the U.S. for fifth consecutive year!

By Reel Chicago Oct 8, 2021

With more than 800,000 readers submitted responses, Condé Nast Traveler recognized the City of Chicago as the #1 Best Big City in the U.S. for the fifth year in a row in the...

Reel Indie

Chicago Film Society is back screening difficult movies for difficult people

By Reel Chicago Oct 8, 2021

After spending the pandemic experimenting with new hobbies--bread-baking, zine-making, whittling, etc.--Chicago Film Society returns to "the only thing we ever knew how to do" ...

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