ELLEN DeGENERES will tape her popular daytime show here May 3, although the taping venue hasn’t been announced. Since her show airs on NBC, taping at Ch.
WILLIAM FORSYTE leads a slate of familiar and sometimes sinister character actors in producer-director Scott Prestin’s crime thriller, “The Chicago Blues,” slated to shoot in late summer by Prestin’s
A SHOUT OUT TO JACKIE TAYLOR, who after 31 years of staging more than 100 musical shows will receive a Special Award from the Jeff Awards honoring her
HANK NEUBERGER, Chicago’s sound guru, is currently in Palm Springs where he will head a 90-member crew, including lots of Chicago guys, to produce a three day
IF YOU’RE A PRODUCER with what you feel is a dynamite reality show idea, “America’s Next Producer,” wants to meet you Feb. 24, from noon till 4 p.m. at
Representatives of 10 Chicago film and digital entertainment companies have been selected to meet one-on-one with delegates of a high-level Hong Kong film delegation Oct. 25 during “Hong Kong Day
THAT THE TAX INCENTIVE BOOSTS BUSINESS was evidenced during August 7-19 when six spot houses took advantage of Illinois’ 20% film tax credit.
“Gilmore Girls” regular and CollaborAction Theatre co-founder John Cabrera returned to Chicago for the local premiere of his short film, “The Man Who Invented the Moon,” at the Midwest Independent
WHO HE IS: Joe Farina is a former educational worker who began acting three years ago as a second career.
He follows the example of his
Carmen Mormino was in rehearsals to play the devil in David Mamet’s play “Bobby Gould in Hell” in North Hollywood when the lead actress dropped out.
were presented to Victor Garber, TTS alum W. Earl Brown and multi award winning Emma Thompson by The Theatre School at DePaul University April 19 at the Four Seasons Hotel.
Paul Traynor of Hay Moon, Inc. is out to make “Witches’ Night” a horror movie for grown-ups on a $500,000 to $1 million budget he’s raising from private investors.
A NEW AD AGENCY called Houlihan Madison Most has been formed by Kevin Houlihan and Brad Most, for many years with the Chicago Creative Partnership. While HMM is clientless
AN ENVIABLE PROJECT. A post job for Leo Burnett and client Philips Sonicare dental hygiene that Machete editors started in May and kept growing and growing finally ended two weeks
Scott Erlinder’s gamble that there would be a national audience for his doc about Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast paid off when American Public Television
Animation production — and more — is again moving to the forefront by the ambitious expansion of Dreamation, owned by partners Brooke English and
Chicago filmmakers were among the nearly 1,000 persons who flocked to Washington D.C. DATE for the 6th annual Real Screen Summit conference, presented by the publisher of “Boards” and “Real
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“Godfather of Green Bay” director Pete Schwaba (from left), actors Lauren Holly and Tony Goldwyn, and producer
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A feast of international films at
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Cineme, the first Chicago International Animation Festival takes place Nov. 6-9 with something for everyone in the technologically
Put your roller skates, get out your notepads and party clothes for the busiest, most informative and social November we’ve seen in years. See details in Calendar.
