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Tag: film production

Smash Virtual electrifies Chicago with virtual production Master Class
  • PRODUCTION CENTRAL

Smash Virtual electrifies Chicago with virtual production Master Class

By Reel Chicago Feb 24, 2023
Smash Virtual Production Studios along with Synapse Virtual Production Studios, Framestore and Framestore Pictures hosted a Master Class last week in Virtual Production to a pa...
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MFF presents the Chicago premiere of Good Guy With A Gun
  • CHICAGO MADE

MFF presents the Chicago premiere of Good Guy With A Gun

By Reel Chicago Feb 24, 2023
The Midwest Film Festival (MFF) presents the exclusive Chicago Premiere of Chicago Made Good Guy With A Gun on February 27th to a sold out audience at the renowned Gene Siskel ...
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Polly Morgan, ASC, BSC reflects on the challenges filming The Woman King
  • Behind The Scenes

Polly Morgan, ASC, BSC reflects on the challenges filming The Woman King

By Reel Chicago Feb 24, 2023
Set in the West African kingdom of Dahomey in the year 1823, director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s feature The Woman King focuses on the historically inspired but fictio...
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JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival final weekend February 23-26
  • FESTIVALS

JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival final weekend February 23-26

By Reel Chicago Feb 24, 2023
The JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival prepares for its final weekend on February 23-26, 2023, with three fascinating films including two premieres. The festival will continue i...
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Top NYC sound mixer Brian Battersby relocates to Harbor Chicago
  • REEL MOVES

Top NYC sound mixer Brian Battersby relocates to Harbor Chicago

By Reel Chicago Feb 23, 2023
After building a reputation as one of NYC’s go-to sound talents in the commercial world, Brian Battersby heads to Harbor’s studio in Chicago this month. Major brands Bat...
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Vision Films to release urban rom-com Pretty Crazy
  • CHICAGO MADE

Vision Films to release urban rom-com Pretty Crazy

By Reel Chicago Feb 22, 2023
Vision Films, Inc announces the VOD release of the Chicago centric rom-com Pretty Crazy from director Maurice 'Mo Jones on March 14. The film was co-written and produce...
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200th episode of Chicago P.D.  Here’s a sneak peak
  • ONE CHICAGO

200th episode of Chicago P.D. Here’s a sneak peak

By Barbara Roche Feb 22, 2023
Chicago P.D. has reached a significant milestone with the celebration of their 200th episode. If you have been looking forward to a special night, this episode will not disa...
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South Side will not be renewed for Season 4
  • PRODUCTION CENTRAL

South Side will not be renewed for Season 4

By Reel Chicago Feb 21, 2023
The Chicago Made critically acclaimed comedy series, South Side, has been canceled by HBO Max after three seasons. Filmed on location in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, ...
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Gov Pritzker celebrates Black-Owned businesses in Chicago
  • Black History Month

Gov Pritzker celebrates Black-Owned businesses in Chicago

By Reel Chicago Feb 17, 2023
Black McDonald's Operators Association and Three Black-Owned Businesses Honored at Event Governor Pritzker today joined the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (...
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Melissa Thornley reflects on “her date with Raquel Welch”
  • Reel People

Melissa Thornley reflects on “her date with Raquel Welch”

By Melissa Thornley Feb 16, 2023
Editor's note: Raquel Welch, who was born in Chicago in 1940, returned in 2010 as the honored guest of Women in Film (WIFC). This heartwarming story is told by former WIF m...
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Chicago Irish Film Festival, films from The Land of Storytelling
  • FESTIVALS

Chicago Irish Film Festival, films from The Land of Storytelling

By Reel Chicago Feb 15, 2023
The 24th annual Chicago Irish Film Festival (CIFF) returns in-person and virtually. The festival is known to offer the best features, shorts and documentary films from The La...
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Siskel Center creates Sergio Mims Fund for Black excellence in filmmaking
  • FILM

Siskel Center creates Sergio Mims Fund for Black excellence in filmmaking

By Reel Chicago Feb 15, 2023
With the passing of celebrated film critic and Black Harvest Film Festival co-founder and consultant Sergio Mims last fall, the Gene Siskel Film Center announced the establishm...
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Chicago Med new episode! Set pics and promo
  • ONE CHICAGO

Chicago Med new episode! Set pics and promo

By Barbara Roche Feb 15, 2023
Chicago Med new episode this week! Our team has returned in the new episode titled, It's an Ill Wind That Blows Nobody Good. If you're unfamiliar with the phrase it is said to ...
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Chicago P.D. returns! Pics and Promo for The Ghost in You
  • ONE CHICAGO

Chicago P.D. returns! Pics and Promo for The Ghost in You

By Barbara Roche Feb 14, 2023
Chicago P.D. returns with a new episode this week and it looks like ASA Nina Chapman (Sara Bues) is coming back to Chicago P.D. in a big way when a murder hits close to ...
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Chicago Fire is back! Pics and promo for this week’s episode
  • ONE CHICAGO

Chicago Fire is back! Pics and promo for this week’s episode

By Barbara Roche Feb 14, 2023
Chicago Fire returns with a new episode titled The Man of the Moment. The full cast of Chicago Fire is back in action including Taylor Kinney in one of the last episodes t...
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Phoebe Dynevor set to star in thriller ‘Wichita Libra’
  • PRODUCTION CENTRAL

Phoebe Dynevor set to star in thriller ‘Wichita Libra’

By Reel Chicago Feb 13, 2023
Phoebe Dynevor (Fair Play, “Bridgerton”) is set to star in Wichita Libra from writer/director Henry Dunham. The film is written and directed by Henry Dunham, who is kno...
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WeatherTech celebrates 10 years of Super Bowl ads
  • Super Bowl

WeatherTech celebrates 10 years of Super Bowl ads

Feb 10, 2023
Pinnacle Advertising & Marketing client WeatherTech, the leading manufacturer of premium American-made automotive accessories, home, and pet care products, will air a new 3...
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Tyler Perry feature “Mea Culpa” will film in Chicago
  • PRODUCTION CENTRAL

Tyler Perry feature “Mea Culpa” will film in Chicago

By Barbara Roche Feb 8, 2023
Before we start preparing our resumes and celebrating a new film in town, realize that it's Tyler Perry. The Mea Culpa production office is already up and running at the Tyler ...
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Regal Mile Studios breaks ground on 380,000 sq. ft. sound stage
  • PRODUCTION CENTRAL

Regal Mile Studios breaks ground on 380,000 sq. ft. sound stage

By Reel Chicago Feb 8, 2023
Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot joined City, community, and business leaders attend the groundbreaking ceremony for Regal Mile Studios Campus 1, a 380,000 square foot, seven-acre enclo...
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Angie Gaffney steps down as Executive Director of IFA
  • REEL MOVES

Angie Gaffney steps down as Executive Director of IFA

By Barbara Roche Feb 8, 2023
Angie Gaffney, the Executive Director of Independent Film Alliance Chicago (IFA), has announced that she is stepping down from the position that she help to create just a few y...
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