USAMA ALSHAIBI won the Tribeca Film Festival’s All Access Creative Promise Award for Documentary Feature for his in-progress doc “Nice Bombs,” a chronicle of Alshaibi’s return with his father to
Cliff Grant has joined The Story Companies (Chicago Story) as executive producer and head of sales. He shares these duties with Mark Androw, who is also AICP national chairman.
INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS men’s fashion designer John Malkovich will be in Chicago to show his Uncle Kimono line of ready-to-wear creations.
What? You thought Malkovich was
An 18-month effort by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to organize casting directors under Los Angeles Local 399 and New York Local 817 seems be on the brink of success.
Headlining the Oct. 21-24 IFP/Chicago Filmmakers Conference were Academy Award nominated actress Laura Linney (“You Can Count on Me”) and writer-director Dylan Kidd.
If you’ve always wanted a peek inside the homes of morning radio DJ’s Mancow Muller of Q101 or Mike North of The Score, your chance is
WHEW, OPRAH STAYS PUT. The tension’s over as to whether she would or wouldn’t opt out of TV and Chicago at the end of her current contract. But we
Chicago’s answer to NAB, albeit in a smaller forum that’s easier to get around, is Swiderski Electronics’ annual Technology Expo that brings more than 75 leading tech names to the
Jerry Bryant, who produced one of the first local HD shoots for a Blink-182 performance on his “JBTV” series a few years back, is in the midst of fully upgrading
IN PRODUCTION. “Batman: The Intimidation Game” rolls into town July 26 for three weeks ? “The Amityville Horror,” directed by Andrew Douglas starts shooting
A chance meeting on an L.A. street between rapper DMX and novice filmmaker Raymond Thomas led to DMX’ company optioning Thomas’ first short film to developing it into a feature.
Everyone knows the commercial production industry is big, but how big didn’t hit home until the new AICP survey spotlighted its immense size.
By Jonathan Abarbanel
If you’ve got tickets for your favorite Off-Loop theater, better call first to make sure it’s open.
Days before Thanksgiving, Chicago’s Department
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REELSCENE: News & Notes – 10/17/03GIULIANI SPEAKS HERE. Yes, the former New York mayor and 9/11 hero Rudy Giuliani will be the keynote speaker for the Dec. 3 Off the Street Club’s annual holiday luncheon, Features, Tom Busch get a trimming“Barber Shop II,” which wrapped several days earlier than anticipated, hasn’t been the smoothest of feature shoots, but it was one of the touchiest in many a year that we’ve Tax credit act made easy
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