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PEOPLE WERE STANDING IN LINE in Stamford, Connecticut this week waiting to be admitted to the first live taping of “The Jerry Springer Show,” a fixture in Chicago-originated television
PEOPLE WERE STANDING IN LINE in Stamford, Connecticut this week waiting to be admitted to the first live taping of “The Jerry Springer Show,” a fixture in Chicago-originated television
Actor/director Jeff Daniels’ latest feature will have its Midwest premiere at the 11th Annual Waterfront Film Festival June 11-14 in Saugatuck, Mich., where 70-plus films in five venues
JOE SWANBERG’S latest feature “Alexander the Last” will be released by IFC on VOD March 14 through the company’s label IFC Festival Direct, day-and-date with the film’s premiere at the
VETERAN ACTOR TONY SHALHOUB, best known as the title character in the popular “Monk” detective series on TNT, was part of the ribbon-cutting ceremonies that officially opened Milwaukee’s
Director Patrick Creadon and producer Christine O’Malley present their sobering expos? on the U.S. national debt, “I.O.U.S.A.” in an unprecedented HD satellite broadcast to 350-plus theatres nationwide Aug. 21, including
The filmmakers behind the locally-shot workplace comedy, “The Promotion,” are hoping that the film’s Sept. 2 DVD release will reach an audience that failed to turn out to the June-July
If you haven’t booked your vacation yet, and want to combine advancing your stage and screen career amid an historic setting, Shake Alley Workshops in Mineral Point, Wisconsin is
Culminating in six years of development, Steppenwolf Films’ first film, “Diminished Capacity,” opened July 4 to generally good reviews by major film critics.
Producers Christine O’Malley (“Wordplay”) and Jim Czarnecki, (“Fahrenheit 9/11”), whose controversial new docs were Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominees, are among 12 experts at IFP’s Doc-U-Mania March 29-30 and
April Altenritter, owner of New York-based Rockit Pictures, has opened the full-service commercial production company UpLoop Media in Chicago.
While still based in New York
AS SUNDANCE EXCITEMENT ENDS, South by Southwest Film Festival takes center stage, March 7-15, 2008 in Austin, Texas where the work of three of Chicago’s best indie
THE TAX EXTENSION IS ON ITS WAY! The Illinois House voted 107-7 to extend Illinois’ generous 20% tax credits. The bill was introduced to the House
WHO HE IS: Award-winning director/photographer Justin Hayward, auteur of festival fave “Divorce Lemonade,” is co-producing, directing and editing his first feature, “Fireproof Gloves,” with a friend in St. Louis, his
WHO HE IS: Classically-trained “lower cost alternative” composer Greg Nicolett, 25, garnered Emmy certification in 2003 as an arranger for Brian Keane Music’s score for HBO’s “Legendary Nights” boxing series.
THE CHICAGO DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL returns in its biennial incarnation with more than 100 docs screening between March 30 and April 8 at eight venues throughout the city.
According to award-winning producer/writer Jerome Courshon, a Park Forest native living in L.A., “most filmmakers don’t know the right strategies and they flounder around trying to figure them out.
IFP/Chicago’s third annual Producers Series gets down to the business of film and getting it to market with lectures and panels by proven experts from throughout the country, including favorite
Nat Dykeman’s quest to bring a taste of independent and international cinema to the one million cinematically underserved Lake County residents continues with the 4th annual Lake County Film Festival
CHRIS GARDNER, whose determination to succeed was amazingly chronicled in the movie “Pursuit to Happyness,” appears in a Wal-Mart spot celebrating Black History Month.
THE VENERABLE JOE PYTKA scored his 15th nomination from the DGA’s 26th annual Best Commercial Director Awards.
The other nominees were Dante