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Tag: film production

The Pickwick Theater closes its doors
  • REEL BUSINESS

The Pickwick Theater closes its doors

By Barbara Roche Jan 14, 2023
The Pickwick Theatre closed its doors Thursday night after the final movie Gone With the Wind was shown to a packed house. The exquisite art-deco movie palace chose that fi...
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Chicago film community mourns the loss of AD, Lorin Fulton
  • In memoriam

Chicago film community mourns the loss of AD, Lorin Fulton

By Barbara Roche Jan 14, 2023
Our film community has lost a beloved member of the family with the passing of filmmaker, Lorin Fulton, who fought a courageous battle with cancer and passed on January 11. ...
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Jenny Lumpkin joins Laird and Good Company as Director of Production
  • REEL MOVES

Jenny Lumpkin joins Laird and Good Company as Director of Production

By Barbara Roche Jan 13, 2023
Long established in the Chicago production community, Jenny Lumpkin, has made a move. A BIG MOVE -- She's off to NYC, taking on the newly created position of Director of Pro...
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Timothy Olyphant talks about his love for Chicago,  and the Justified series
  • REEL INTERVIEWS

Timothy Olyphant talks about his love for Chicago, and the Justified series

By Reel Chicago Jan 13, 2023
From the Television Critics Association winter press event, an interview with Timothy Olyphant, and the showrunners and executive producers of Justified: City Primeval gave us ...
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Local 727 negotiates highest wage increase yet for movie drivers
  • UNION

Local 727 negotiates highest wage increase yet for movie drivers

By Reel Chicago Jan 12, 2023
In an announcement to its members today, Local 727 stated that it has negotiated the best overall deals on behalf of membership with NBC/Universal and Disney/Twentieth Century ...
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Jeremy Allen White talks best actor win, Bear season 2, new movie
  • REEL INTERVIEWS

Jeremy Allen White talks best actor win, Bear season 2, new movie

By Susan Hornik Jan 11, 2023
From the Golden Globes press room, Jeremy Allen White talks about his best actor win, his new infatuation with food, what to expect in Season 2 of The Bear, and his upcoming mo...
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Women elevated to AICP leadership after elections 
  • AICP

Women elevated to AICP leadership after elections 

By Reel Chicago Jan 10, 2023
With results of its recent leadership elections finalized, the AICP kicks off the new year with an impressive balance of women represented in leadership roles and new faces at ...
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Gene Siskel Film Center to honor Executive Director Jean de St. Aubin
  • Events

Gene Siskel Film Center to honor Executive Director Jean de St. Aubin

By Reel Chicago Jan 10, 2023
After 20 remarkable years, Gene Siskel Film Center Executive Director Jean de St. Aubin will resign this winter; her last day at the Film Center will be February 15. The Fi...
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61st Street dropped by AMC as part of cost cutting measures
  • CHICAGO MADE

61st Street dropped by AMC as part of cost cutting measures

By Barbara Roche Jan 10, 2023
Sadly, we can confirm that 61st Street is looking for a new home.  The series was originally ordered as part of a two-season pickup. Seasons 1 and 2 were filmed simultaneo...
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Steve Laughlin’s action thriller Deep Woods debuts on VOD
  • Reel Indie

Steve Laughlin’s action thriller Deep Woods debuts on VOD

By Barbara Roche Jan 9, 2023
The indie feature, Deep Woods, written and directed by Steve Laughlin of Chicago-based advertising agency, Laughlin Constable, makes its debut in North America on all major VO...
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FACETS presents Chicago encore engagement of Aftersun
  • Events

FACETS presents Chicago encore engagement of Aftersun

By Reel Chicago Jan 8, 2023
FACETS announces the Chicago encore engagement of Charlotte Wells' Aftersun, winner of the Milos Stehlik Award for Breakthrough Filmmaker from the Chicago Film Critics Assoc...
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Quriosity and Cutters sign with east coast reps
  • REEL MOVES

Quriosity and Cutters sign with east coast reps

By Reel Chicago Jan 6, 2023
Chicago and L.A.-based production, post and photography studio Quriosity Productions, and Cutters Studios the internationally known editorial and production company headquarter...
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Latino filmmaker, Jesus Celaya wins McDonald’s short film contest
  • Reel Indie

Latino filmmaker, Jesus Celaya wins McDonald’s short film contest

By Reel Chicago Jan 6, 2023
McDonald’s USA recently announced Jesus Celaya, an emerging Latino filmmaker from southern California, as the grand prize winner of its first-ever Spotlight Dorado short fi...
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2022 in Review: To those we have lost
  • Year in Review

2022 in Review: To those we have lost

By Barbara Roche Jan 1, 2023
Reel Chicago remembers and celebrates the friends and loved ones of our community who no longer make the journey with us. Some showered us with their creativity. Some made...
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off  faux Ferrari just sold for $337,500
  • FILM

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off faux Ferrari just sold for $337,500

By Reel Chicago Jan 1, 2023
One of the replica cars from the 1986 classic John Hughes movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off just sold for $337,500 at Dallas-based Heritage Auctions. The price is a bargain s...
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2022 in Review: Top stories of the year
  • Year in Review

2022 in Review: Top stories of the year

By Barbara Roche Jan 1, 2023
Chicago has an impressive amount of talented cast and crew members, techs, and vendors who handle absolutely any production challenge that gets thrown at them. Our most oft...
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OUR TOP STORY OF 2022: The day the stories died
  • Year in Review

OUR TOP STORY OF 2022: The day the stories died

By Colin Costello Jan 1, 2023
Colin Costello is our West Coast Editor of Reel 360. Would you believe it if I told you our biggest story of 2022 was about something that couldn’t be found? In late Novem...
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Justified: City Primeval showrunners explain how the sequel came about
  • CHICAGO MADE

Justified: City Primeval showrunners explain how the sequel came about

By Reel Chicago Dec 26, 2022
Justified: City Primeval showrunners Dave Andron and Michael Dinner were just as surprised as the fans were to learn that Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) w...
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Chicago Corner hosts holiday food and toy drive and double feature
  • HOLIDAY SPIRIT

Chicago Corner hosts holiday food and toy drive and double feature

By Reel Chicago Dec 22, 2022
Jerry Vasilatos, Kira Macoun and Edward Heller of Chicago Corner are hosting the First Annual Holiday Food and Toy Drive at the Patio Theater on December 23rd, 2...
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Reel Chicago is back and I need a vacation
  • BREAKING NEWS

Reel Chicago is back and I need a vacation

By Barbara Roche Dec 22, 2022
We're back! I wish I could say we enjoyed some time off but dealing with the surreal nightmare of a malicious malware attack that brought down our Reel Chicago website and dama...
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