Optimus promoted senior producer Tracy Spera and EP/VFX and design John Desir to executive producers, “roles in which they also will assume internal leadership and business de...

Post house Utopic’s award-winning editor / partner Craig Lewandowski partnered with acclaimed director and motion/still photographer Sandro Miller to produce a film in wh...

After a 14 year absence, Panavision cameras has come back to Chicago in a big way -- thanks to the current flow of television and film activity -- after an absence of 14 years, ...

The Chicago-headquartered AICP / Midwest has elected new officers and board beginning Oct 1 for a two-year term, with Mark Androw of STORY reelected for a third term as presiden...

A 30-SECOND CUBS SPOT, "Fly the W," created by Chicago Cubs’ agency Schafer Carter Condon (SCC) featuring the narration of injured Cubs catcher Kyle Schwarber, was designed to...

The Midwest’s premiere screening event — DePaul School of Cinematic Arts’ annual Courier 12 Screenwriting Conference — Oct. 8 at its Loop campus, is an afternoon of pane...

The next 10 days will be especially exciting for talent agent Marisa Paonessa. She will be making two consecutive weekend trips to New York to celebrate the TV and film premier...

The sky’s the limit for the Steward brothers Chris and Tim and their father, Jim, who have just launched their Dirty Birds Aerial Imagery commercial drone photography company ...

When then-10 year old Khali Spraggins read for a part in one of Vera J. Brooks’ productions last year, Brooks was so impressed by her natural acting talent that she a wrote an...

Daily Planet has produced the first of several videos to help Imerman Angels, the nonprofit one-on-one cancer support group, raise money and support during the Oct. 9 Bank of Am...

Famous Chicago director, the late John Hughes, will be honored by the Northbook Historical Society at a June 22, 2017 exhibit of Hughes memorabilia and artifacts. The exhibit...

Two tributes will be paid to iconic award-winning film directors at the 52nd Chicago International Film Festival coming up Oct. 13-27.Pete Bogdanovich (“The Last Picture Show...