Pixel Brothers’ winning NATPE strategy
Pixel Brothers is back in the game with an upcoming production of 26 half-hour episodes of “The Treasure Hunters Roadshow,” thanks to a successful NATPE showing in Las Vegas.
Pixel Brothers is back in the game with an upcoming production of 26 half-hour episodes of “The Treasure Hunters Roadshow,” thanks to a successful NATPE showing in Las Vegas.
It looked like tumbleweeds in the exhibit hall at last week’s National Assn. of Television and Programming Executives (NATPE) held at Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas. Attendance had dwindled to
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
The ninth Indie Incubator Film Festival dedicated to short films of every conceivable genre is literally held underground, but that doesn’t mean it has a low profile.
ABEL CINE TECH opened a Midwest sales office and small showroom in Oakbrook Terrace, headed by Kari Hess, and joined by production salesman Gregger Jones,
THE HOTTEST TICKETS IN TOWN were those issued by Universal Studios for the Chicago preview of “Public Enemies” that screened in two theatres in the River East 21
A “PUBLIC ENEMIES” PRESS JUNKET by Universal Studios is scheduled for June 18 in Chicago, with the conference to be held at Union Station, we hear. A
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? Michael Mann’s 1930s crime movie “Public Enemies,” which spent $25 million filming in Chicago and the state last year, will have various
“NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET” began shooting last week at Elk Grove high school in that suburb, moving onto Hersey high in Arlington Heights. “Elm Street” producers cleverly
LOVE IS IN THE AIR for the first Hollywood project to be shot in Chicago so far this year, breaking the nine-month dry spell and portending more
DRAFTFCB ADDED TWO TOP CREATIVES, industry veterans Doug Behm and Jon Flannery as SVP/CDs to work on the agency’s KFC account.
Since
JOE SWANBERG’S latest feature “Alexander the Last” will be released by IFC on VOD March 14 through the company’s label IFC Festival Direct, day-and-date with the film’s premiere at the
DEBBIE BECK RETIRED from the Chicago Film Office last week without fanfare, after a remarkable and dedicated 28 years serving the film community.
Lynn Steadman has a busy two months ahead of her. The newly named interim executive director of the Independent Feature Project/Chicago is working on two big, important and almost back-to-back
An international campaign for local Navteq, which powers Google Maps and supplies technology to many popular GPS production, has pushed three-year-old Big Teeth Productions into the high-end video marketplace.
SINCE MICHAEL KUTZA began the Chicago International Film Festival as the first competitive film festival in North America in 1964, the local festival scene has steadily grown
The filmmakers behind the locally-shot workplace comedy, “The Promotion,” are hoping that the film’s Sept. 2 DVD release will reach an audience that failed to turn out to the June-July
Culminating in six years of development, Steppenwolf Films’ first film, “Diminished Capacity,” opened July 4 to generally good reviews by major film critics.
I didn’t go to NAB 2008 in Las Vegas this year for the first time in many years.
It now seems like I wasn’t the
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