“We are starting to have a way for our stories to be shared, told, and heard … it’s only gonna make us and the entertainment industry stronger … It’s time”
According to Adweek, NBC is setting up an all-Chicago night on Wednesdays with “Chicago Med,” “Chicago Fire,” and “Chicago P.D.” “We flirted with doing this in the past, and
VER Chief Executive Officer Digby Davies announced today that VER will merge with Production Resource Group. One of the world’s largest production equipment rental operations, VER boasts offices on six
Christine Dudley rarely goes to the movies. That may seem odd for the Director of the Illinois Film Office, but she’s dedicated to a job that begins before most of
Born in Tehran, Iran, Kamelya Alexan moved to Chicago when she was five-years-old, where she was raised. Kamelya has worked on and completed over twenty-five projects including documentaries, shorts, music
SAG Awards tee up “Three Billboards” for Oscar run Sunday night, the SAG Awards made it very clear that Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a frontrunner for the Oscars.
The American Film Market 2017, which opened its doors last Wednesday and just ended November 8 in Santa Monica, has reportedly seen a significant surge in participants this year with
The 53rd Chicago International Film Festival announced its winners Friday night and one of the films awarded was a Cutters Studios post project by writer / director Stephen Cone called
“It’s a good day,” says Sheila Brown, the Executive Director of the CineCares Foundation. “The interns will receive twelve weeks of on-the-job training.” Brown leads an effort to place young
During an exclusive conversation with ReelChicago yesterday, Cincespace CEO Alex Pissios informed publisher Barbara Roche and editor Daniel Patton that the pilot for TNT’s The Deep Mad Dark will begin
Writers Guild members who voted overwhelmingly, on both coasts, to authorize a strike, now wait with baited breath as the negotiating committee meets today with AMPTP
If 2016 was considered a great year for the Chicago media and entertainment business, 2017 is starting to shape up as even greater. It could even be the year
The 12th annual Chicago 48 Hour Film Project wound up with a presentation to 27 winning teams, out of 53 entrants, whose short weekend-made films were deemed best by judges
Judges and audiences of the 12th Chicago 48 Hour Film Project have weighed in with their decisions on the 21 films that will receive “Best of Chicago” awards at the
Thanks to NBC, Fox TV, Amazon and other TV shows, features, and the large number of media and entertainment projects filming here, Chicago is ascending into the rarified strata of
NEW TV SHOW IN TOWN is Netflix’ one-hour dramatic series “Ozark,” being produced, directed and EP’d by Jason Bateman that will be the tenth entertainment project to film throughout Chicago
The dramedy, “Mercury in Retrograde,” Michael Glover Smith of White City Cinema, filmmaker, author and film studies instructor, starts filming Aug. 4 for 15 days in Chicago and
NBC Universal has renewed Dick Wolf’s currently longest-running series and its most recent entrée. Order: SVU,” filmed in New York, and “Chicago
Here’s a good start to the New Year of media and entertainment in Chicago. Dick Wolf’s latest franchise,
Registration is now open for one of the best weekends of the summer for filmmakers at all levels of skill — the 13th annual 48
