State of incentives: Rio De Janeiro
The Brazilian city has formed a new film commission, hired a longtime movie industry pro to head it and set an ambitious first goal: landing the next Woody Allen flick
The Brazilian city has formed a new film commission, hired a longtime movie industry pro to head it and set an ambitious first goal: landing the next Woody Allen flick
Tony Izzo, a film pioneer who ascended from film lab intern to one of the giants in the postproduction business, died from cancer complications Sept. 27 at Hinsdale Hospital, with
COMEDIAN TOM DRESSEN will MC the Oct. 27 invitation-only NBC premiere of the TV special, “The Heart of Hollywood: The Chicago Link,” shot by RDS at the recent
JOYCE KILBURG, the Illinois Film Office’s diversity officer, was seriously injured Wednesday night when the taxi she was riding crashed into a tree. She was heading home
NOT EVERYONE gets the pleasure and satisfaction of working with their mother, but Oscar winner Virginia Madsen teamed up with her filmmaker mom, Elaine
“BLUEGRASS RUN,” the Trinity Angels Production of a comedy adventure feature set in Chicago and the horse country of Kentucky, recently shot key Chicago scenes at Loop locations
Six Columbia College alums will proudly walk the red carpet Saturday night when their ambitious first feature premieres at the Chicago International Film Festival.
Hollywood’s gold rush to Iowa blew up in the wake of a scandal late last week when Gov. Chet Culver fired Iowa Film Office director Tom Wheeler and suspended
David O’Connor will invest approximately $2 million in the purchase, remodeling and equipping of a West Loop building he purchased that will triple the amount of space his O’Connor Casting
The lightning speed of postproduction by Chicago HD and a team of editors and audio mixers took Lollapalooza 2009 from Millennium Park to FUSE TV in four days after the
Director and futurist David Rosen returned from the recent L.A. Collision Conference with great excitement over the merging of still and motion HD technologies. He reports on what
COMMERCIALS RULE this month, as a slew of bicoastal production companies are here or en route to shoot national spots on city streets with local crews and
Fearful that legislators will cap or kill Michigan’s 42% incentives, about 100 film industry workers rallied at the capitol in Lansing Aug. 18, petitioning legislators to keep the incentives in
DOCUMENTARIAN KEN BURNS comes to Chicago Sept. 16 to speak at a luncheon and presentation for his new book, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” at the Union
“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