Music webisodes back for season 2
“Organic Groov,” the unique neo soul and spoken word video webisodes, expands into a second venue, “Digital Funtown,” which combines in-house productions with user-generated content
Wrapping its
“Organic Groov,” the unique neo soul and spoken word video webisodes, expands into a second venue, “Digital Funtown,” which combines in-house productions with user-generated content
Wrapping its
Before he died on July 16, Assignment Desk owner, Bill Scheer, had stipulated instead of a funeral he wanted a party, “to remember him in the way he loved to
BEST FILM PRIZE in the 9th annual Chicago 48 Hour Film Project went to Quicklips Productions’ “Gazillion Dollar Sausage,” conceived, produced and finished in less than 24 hours over the
Legendary filmmaker John Hughes, who singlehandedly created and sustained Chicago’s film industry in the 1980s and 1990s, died of a heart attack Aug. 6, while in Manhattan, where he’d been
TYLER JAY, recently with the 2016 Committee, joined Dictionary Films as an executive producer of content.
While he was with the 2016 Committee, Jay
TWO OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NAMES in movie criticism — the Chicago Tribune’s Michael Phillips, and the New York Times’ A.O. Scott
Iowa, probably known best in filmmaking circles as the location for “Field of Dreams,” enhanced its film and TV incentives July 1 by offering a jaw-dropping 50% tax credit and
Greg Glienna, creator of the original “Meet the Parents,” shot a series of three comedy shorts last weekend for Len Austrevich’s company, Either Way Works, as a “warm up”
The 100 people, mostly game developers, employed at the Midway Games studio in Logan Square are now employees of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Midway spokesman Geoffrey Mogilner said.
Private equity firm consultant and filmmaker Yuri Rutman has launched a film investment consulting division of his production company, Noci Pictures.
Chicago and L.A.-based Noci Pictures Entertainment,
IPA president Lars Ullberg calls it “the incentives arms race,” and Hollywood Deadline Hollywood Daily writer Nikki Finke calls it “a cutthroat biz these days.”
Chicago’s first, non-station produced celebrity late night talk show premiered July 3 on CBS Ch. 2, with the pilot episode of “The Good Night Chicago Show.”
Hosted
A WINNING LOTTERY STORY for a change. The Illinois Lottery’s agency, Energy BBDO, actually assigned its new commercial to a 100% bona fide Chicago production company.
Wisconsin’s hard-earned and effective film tax incentives became history, for time being anyway, when Gov. Jim Doyle used his veto authority in the biennial budget Monday morning.
CLAIRE CONNELLY, IFP board president, is producer of Josh Hyde’s debut feature “Postales,” which was one of 10 films selected to participate in IFP Narrative Film Lab’s week-long
When the Shedd Aquarium reopened its Oceanarium exhibit recently after a nine-month, $50 million facelift, it included a 3D animated video of a South African penquin habitat, created by full-service
Chicago actor/director Morocco Omari won the Best Short Film Award from the recent Hollywood Black Film Festival for “The (Mis)Leading Man,” produced by casting director Sharon King, MJ Allen and
It’s official: The actual economic benefits of “Public Enemies” filming in the state were made known today, a full year after production ended.
According to the Illinois
Celebrating their 25th anniversary, Ralph Murnyak and Kevin Blake’s Image Base corporate production house is a rarity today, a thriving survivor of seismic technology changes that reinvented the communications industry.
THE HOTTEST TICKETS IN TOWN were those issued by Universal Studios for the Chicago preview of “Public Enemies” that screened in two theatres in the River East 21