Lucasfilm announced “Episode IX” director JJ Abrams and Producer Kathleen Kennedy will appear on a panel at Chicago convention next month. Keep your light sabers cautiously at half mast. According
Jedis, droids and Wookies scheduled to invade the annual Star Wars Celebration coming to McCormick Place This April, geeks will not have to go to a galaxy far, far away
Joe Minoso, Colleen Griffen, Joe Chappelle, Dru Anne Carlson, and Josh Greiveldinger are among the short action film’s supporters On October 20th, 13-year-old Bonaparte Moutima was filmed in the
Valuable raffle and silent auction prizes of winter weekend getaways at top hotels and tickets to major sports events will be part of the
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The Force is with us! It’s a triumph that the George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art elected to settle in Chicago
Can Larry Wert at long last bring home the gold? Now may be the best opportunity in a long time for long-standing NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5 general manager Wert and his
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
Nobody puts more mirth into their marketing initiatives than the trio of Smithe brothers — Tim, Mark and Walter — who preside over the well-known local furniture store chain Walter
The Jacobs Agency/Chicago has baked up a new outdoor campaign to celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of Chicago’s well-known baked goods institutions, Turano Baking Co. The ad campaign launches this
The final episode of the massively multi-player online game (MMO) CrimeCraft: Bleedout, will be released March 5 by Vogster Entertainment. It’s the first MMO to offer major weekly
WHAT AN UNEXPECTEDLY NICE GESTURE. In surely what’s got to be a first in the 35-year annals of Hollywood-in-Chicago entertainment production, departing director Ron Howard, stars
WOMEN IN FILM has made a righteous choice to honor broadcast trailblazer, talk show host, news anchor and community activist Merri Dee as its 2010 Focus
One of the uses to which Hector Perez of Rocket Productions will put his new high-end HD camera will be minority-designated production services for Energy BBDO’s new Illinois Lottery account.
SELLING THEIR WARES at Location Expo in L.A. this week is what Scott Robbe would call “A Third Coast coalition” as film office heads and associates
NEW LOBBYING FIRM FOR IPA. The Illinois Production Alliance has hired The Illinois Governmental Consulting Group to convince the Illinois legislature to extend the wage tax credit bill to
After a year’s hiatus, Terra Nova’s X Silver Images Film Festival returns as a streamlined Silver Images Film and Video Awards March 3 at the Chicago Cultural Center.
For a decade,
If it feels to you like the spot business has picked up over last year, you’re absolutely right.
The Chicago Film Office, which
Prime Video honors the fierce female trailblazers who defied conventional society by pursuing their passions to be professional baseball players with the premiere of A League of Their Own on last week.
Full Spectrum Features will be the official presenter at the 28th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival this year in order to program more diversity, equity, and inclusion to represent a
