Talent unions and advertising industry’s extend Commercial Contract talks to next spring
THE PRESSURE IS OFF for another six months so the actors’ unions and the ad industry can hammer out a mutually satisfactory Commercials Contract.
THE PRESSURE IS OFF for another six months so the actors’ unions and the ad industry can hammer out a mutually satisfactory Commercials Contract.
SINCE MICHAEL KUTZA began the Chicago International Film Festival as the first competitive film festival in North America in 1964, the local festival scene has steadily grown
THE BALCONY GOES DARK when the last installment of “At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper” airs Aug. 16 over ABC.
The two
THE DEBUT SHORT FILM of writer/poet Vignette Nicolle Lammott, Foundation’s new media director, produced and directed by Foundation’s Anna Patel, landed in the 44th Chicago International
JOE MALECKI’S MANY FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES will gather for a memorial service Tuesday, Aug. 5, at Outsider, Inc., 230 E. Ohio St. The studio was graciously provided by
MOVIETONE NEWS. The Patrick Swayze A&E TV series, “The Beast,” has opened at Chicago Studio City and is getting set for a late July-early August start
ACTOR DAVID PASQUESI’S TV SERIES, “Factory,” will bow June 29 on Spike TV, but Pasquesi may not see the premiere episode.
He is filming
Now that the Illinois/Chicago Screenwriting Contest has run its course after a respectable 14-year run, the Illinois Film Office has come up with a new film contest for Illinois
All 440 seats at the IMAX Theatre at Navy Pier have been sold out for the Chicago International Film Festival’s July 16 Chicago premiere of “The Dark Night.”
Actor Edward James Olmos raised a glass high to Columbia College film student, Sean J.S. Jourdan, Thursday night when Jordan’s short, “An Open Door,” was the recipient of a CINE
ACTOR MATT DILLON will portray Leonard Chess, the legendary founder of the South Side Chicago blues label Chess Records, in Sony/BMG Film’s “Cadillac Records.”
What would have been the 4th annual Silver Images Generational Award for the best film portraying the process of aging went missing from the 43rd Chicago International Film Festival.
THIS IS ROGER EBERT’S YEAR for prestigious awards. He will receive the Gotham Award presented by the Independent Feature Project Nov. 27 in New York.
THE ONE SHOW of great advertising from New York’s One Club, which judged 18,000 entries from 50 countries, has made its annual pilgrimage to Chicago
Plucked from more than 200 entries, the work of seven local filmmakers will be screened at the Chicago International Film Festival’s specially-cultivated, “Home Grown Shorts” program starting Oct. 7.
Rusty Gorman has the singular distinction of being the only Chicago filmmaker whose narrative motion picture will screen at the 2007 Chicago International Film Festival.
Gorman
The world spotlight will shine on Chicago Oct. 4 when the 43rd Chicago International Film Festival?the longest running film festival in North America?opens for a two week run.
OPRAH’S AUDIENCE will soon be able to leave the studio and walk across the street to her new fashion boutique at 57 N. Carpenter.
The 4,500-sq.
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
Steve and Nefra Johnson of the Johnson Media Group are executive producers of “True Pioneers,” a new non-fiction series about unsung African American sports heroes for Fox Sports Net, beginning