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Michigan film workers will rally Sunday, April 17, for a non-stop, 15 hour webathon to raise money to fund a TV spot campaign, in an effort to influence the legislature
THIRTY FILMS BY CHICAGO CREW MEMBERS are featured on Industry Night, April 16, in the 6th annual MoFest festival and party, and features, The Beekeeper, by filmmaker Sean Jordan
SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST LEWIS LAZARE was abruptly fired Friday from his 11 year post as ad/marketing and local broadcasting columnist – a serious blow to the adbiz
In a surprising move, orchestrated by the House majority leadership and pushed through in Wisconsin-like speed without forewarning or debate, the Illinois House voted to kill the no-sunset clause of
“PLAYBOY,” THE NBC PILOT, about the start of the Playboy Clubs in Chicago, about the opening of the first Playboy Club in Chicago in 1963 (at the site
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THE POPULAR “CASH CAB” SHOW is prowling the streets of Chicago, ready to pick up unsuspecting contestants and ask them questions en route to their destinations. The
After a dismal and unpredictable 2009, the local visual media industry didn’t know what business twists and turns to expect when 2010 dawned.
“Business had taken
AN OPEN EXTRAS CASTING CALLS for Steven Soderbergh’s big budget, big cast “Contagion” will be held by Rich King Casting of L.A. Sept. 25 at the
Networking flashmob “Meeting Massive” opened the cutting edge Chicago Motion Graphics Festival, running through Saturday, which has expanded mightily over the past five years to become the premiere industry event
There’s always a first time for everything, and this was my first experience with a shocking and vicious virus invasion that crashed my computer and brought work on the
COMEDIAN TOM DRESSEN will MC the Oct. 27 invitation-only NBC premiere of the TV special, “The Heart of Hollywood: The Chicago Link,” shot by RDS at the recent
The Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum (WSF) in Madison kicks off a new season with new president Ken Miyamoto, a former Sony Pictures script reader/story analyst and paid screenwriter.
SWEET HOME CHICAGO was a spectacular success Monday at the Le Grande Orange restaurant in Santa Monica, when 350 Chicagoans in the industry turned out for a
COMMERCIALS RULE this month, as a slew of bicoastal production companies are here or en route to shoot national spots on city streets with local crews and
Raleigh Michigan Studios, formerly known as the Motown Motion Picture Studios, has obtained the $75.8 million in financing it needs to convert the idled General Motors plant in Pontiac into
EILEEN WILLENBORG WAS BOWLED OVER at the National AFTRA Convention Aug. 8 when she received a super prestigious Gold Card, the union’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize,
With the election last week of a union executive to lead the Illinois Production Alliance, the six-year old trade organization has signaled its intention to focus on the Illinois filmmaker’s
James Allen Smith plans a local theatrical release for his recently completed documentary “Floored,” about the final days of open air trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
