Cap Gun reps “Teachers” director Matt Miller for spots
McNaughton/Jones return to horror with ‘The Harvest’
Director John McNaughton and producer Steven A. Jones were in lower Manhattan, poised to return to the horror thriller genre after a
Big Deahl signs Midwest sales rep Nathan Skillicorn
Master tabletop director/shooter David Deahl may travel the world on assignment, but when it comes to representation, “We wanted someone local,” says executive producer Rosemary Deahl.
October sizzles with array of can’t miss activities
October traditionally is the most eventfully-active month of the year as our calendar proves. We will continue to add events as quickly as they announced so, as they say, “stay
Wachowskis’ epic ‘Cloud Atlas’ is CIFF centerpiece
Leave it to founder/artistic director Michael Kutza and the board and staff of the Chicago and the 48th International Film Festival to elevate the city’s culture
Digital Asset Management conference here Sept. 13
Sixteen highly regarded digital asset gurus will speak from a users POV at the Thursday, Sept. 13 all-day Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Conference <a href="http://tinyurl.com/DAMCHI2012"
Catfish’s Boyle marks 20 years in commercial music
Jeff Boyle of Catfish Music in River North remembers Chicago’s thriving commercial scoring business when he started out 20 years ago as a composer and how he has been
Playwright Saracho wins Sundance Theatre Lab slot
IT’S PROBABLY SAFE TO SAY that Mexican-born, Chicago-based playwright Tanya Saracho has emerged. She adds another impressive notch to her professional belt by being selected as a member of the
NATO Summit setting for Kolak’s indie ‘MAYDAYS’
THE RECENT NATO SUMMIT in Chicago is the setting for filmmaker award-winning filmmaker Ben Kolak’s indie feature MAYDAYS that he says is in the political tradition of filmmaker Haskell Wexler’s
‘Wedding Crashers’ writer sued over pilot script
What Imran Mukati wanted from Wedding Crashers writer Steve Faber was the script for a TV pilot: a “Sex and the City for guys” inspired by the dating experiences of
Top TV pros speak at TV Academy Career Day 3/10
TV ACADEMY’S CAREER DAY, Saturday, March 10 will update visual media professionals, TV Academy members and college students on the latest changes in the television industry,
Newell/Falzone’s uncommon approach to improv indie
From the imaginative and colorful opening title sequence of “Close Quarters,” we are in the hands of debut feature filmmaker, Jack C. Newell,
Well-deserved grants to three worthy arts companies
YEAR’S END always brings accolades in the form of always-welcome grants, and there are three to acknowledge, starting with the generosity of The Helen Coburn Meier and Tim
Optimism, madness, goats and grease lead the Jeffs
The Goodman Theatre’s production of Candide, Chicago Shakespeare’s production of Alan Bennett’s The Madness of George III, Remy Bumppo’s production of Edward Albee’s The
Artistic endeavors “On the Side” a new webisodic ReelChicago feature
RED CAR’S JON DESIR is the first artist to appear in a new web series called “On the Side,” about creative people in the local advertising community who
Ex-Marine cops top prize in Screenwriters’ contest
Winner of the grand prize of the recent Chicago Screenwriters Network’s third annual script contest was former U.S. Marine, Adedapo Akisanya, for his drama, Beneath the Rock.
He was
Writer/director Jamal’s music drama about a ‘90s band
SMASHED! A short film by writer/director Theophilus Jamal, about a band struggling to stay together during the changing Chicago alternative rock music scene in the ‘90s starts production
Filmmaker Niko Franghias revives Greek Film Festival
Greeks in Chicago — the third largest Greek population in the world, with an estimated 450,000 and second only to New York’s 500,000 –- celebrate their culture with a variety
Heartwarming message in prize winning “Fancypants”
To the surprise — and total delight – of the Humble Pie Films’ producers, their low-budget indie Fancypants, was a hit right out of the gate. At its first festival
Christopher Meloni signs major ‘Man of Steel’ role
CHRISTOPHER MELONI, who quit his 12-year gig as Det. Stabler, co-star of NBC’s Law & Order: SVU, is expected to have “an unspecified major role” in Man of Steel, the
