Comedy Film Fest nets vast viewers via digital deal
A new partnership with leading YouTube network Collective Digital Studio (CDS) puts a vast new audience within reach for the four-year-old Chicago Comedy
A new partnership with leading YouTube network Collective Digital Studio (CDS) puts a vast new audience within reach for the four-year-old Chicago Comedy
THE ILLINOIS LOTTERY’S HOLIDAY CAMPAIGN was filmed in four locations throughout the state, including two days in Red Bud (pop. 3,700) way down south
Two new weekly shows are establishing the five-year-old, Chicago-based Big Ten Network as a regular producer of sports documentaries.
Operating out of offices in the old Montgomery Ward
Harry Lennix shows up as a controversial comic a la Richard Pryor at his wife’s (Tatum O’Neill) Chicago night club, in Mr. Sophistication, one of nine features and six shorts
Missed paychecks and production fees will ripple through Chicago-area video companies unless the National Hockey League lockout of players comes to an unexpectedly quick conclusion. The NHL has already canceled
Red Car editorial’s new managing director Carrie Holecek has gone all out for a memorable first party in a series she calls
Like the recently revealed Chicago Cultural Plan for expanding the arts, here is a film professional’s vision of how to move Chicago into the top tier of entertainment production.
Chicago needs
Say this for Mario Van Peebles: Despite the dark themes of Startz “Boss,” the director presides over a festive set. Before filming ended on the second season July 10, Van
As I sit here working with only one engineer on a deck outfitted with the latest of digital tools, I about how far we have come in mixing films –
We said we’d keep you updated on the ratings story for the heavily-hyped NBC prime time series “Smash.” And we are.
“Smash” is the show — executive produced by film legend Steven
Cursing your luck because you didn’t order your Lollapalooza tickets soon enough and now it’s a sell out? No worries. Haul out the beer and watch the concerts
The newest of Per Holmes’ highly-acclaimed Hollywood Camera Work Seminars will have its world premiere in Chicago next week, before moving onto New York, LA and London.
Tuscany, Italy-based Holmes’ U.S.
“SUPERMAN: MAN OF STEEL” lands in Chicago in early summer for a reported 12 weeks of prep and 12 weeks of filming. The Warner Bros. blockbuster-budgeted adventure/fantasy stars handsome, young Brit
What started out as a generous, from-the-heart gesture in 1995, to help the family of an editor who died suddenly, has become one of the summer’s most anticipated events.
Midwinter Studios, financial expert Brett D. Thompson’s multimedia production company, has gotten off to an auspicious start.
Since its debut last August, Midwinter’s inaugural feature, “The Scenesters,”
WELCOME BACK, ROGER! It looks like Roger Ebert is returning to television with a new syndicated movie review show from Chicago, expected to be taped
A couple of weeks ago, Roger Ebert took to his Twitter account to remind fans of the 11th anniversary of the death of his close friend Gene Siskel, Ebert’s
The first 3D technology to run at any Chicago trade show plays at the Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana Chevrolet Dealers Association exhibit at the Chicago Auto Show, now
VINCE VAUGHN will team up with director Ron Howard for the first time this spring on an untitled comedy about infidelity. Vaughn always can be
Construction is underway to convert a 330,000-sq. ft warehouse into the first of what could be seven to soundstages for Chicago Film Studios, on the 50 acre Ryerson Steel