Michigan production totals $648 million to date
Michigan Film Office director Carrie Jones, 34, hadn’t previously worked in arts or entertainment, but when the film incentives were created, “I knew that it was something I wanted to
Michigan Film Office director Carrie Jones, 34, hadn’t previously worked in arts or entertainment, but when the film incentives were created, “I knew that it was something I wanted to
TYLER JAY, recently with the 2016 Committee, joined Dictionary Films as an executive producer of content.
While he was with the 2016 Committee, Jay
Chicago’s film industry reflected the national trend with a burgeoning documentary scene in 2005.
The Chicago International Documentary Festival continued to grow in scale, prominence and
It was five days before Richard Dresser’s play “Wonderful World” would open at the Athenaeum Theatre, and director Paul Cotter had the day off.
It was Sunday, Aug. 15 and Cotter
Usama and Kristie Alshaibi were awakened one morning last winter by a massive explosion at a nearby police recruitment site in Baghdad.
“The explosion was so close
Rich Seng may have come up with the next big concept for reality TV. The organizer of the monthly “Cherry Bomb” series of free DVD and
When we last checked in with the Waukegan film scene, the big boys were bringing Batman to the Amstutz, and the local boys were challenging aspiring
A bronze telly went to FIDO Films and Mark McCarville’s 19-minute documentary “HMX-1 55th Reunion,” a segment of FIDO ‘s two-hour in-progress doc “Marine
By Ed M. Koziarski
Even as 2003 saw the lowest level of Hollywood expenditures in Chicago in years, one sector of local production seems to have remained
BEST FILM PRIZE in the 9th annual Chicago 48 Hour Film Project went to Quicklips Productions’ “Gazillion Dollar Sausage,” conceived, produced and finished in less than 24 hours over the
Alley Cake’s story about a female boxer becomes second 48 Hour Film Project winner to screen in the Côte d’Azur Chicago-made Knockout, a seven-minute short completed during last year’s 48
Chicago filmmaker Eliaz Rodriguez will light up the Cannes Film Festival for the second year in a row when his 2018 short, “Silica” premieres at the Court Métrage In
The eight-minute short, HAMMERSMITH: Hurdle Of Dreams, will be the first submission from Chicago’s 48 Hour Film Project to screen at the Short Film Corner program of the Cannes Film
Brittany Wagner and Kait Staley — who co-created, co-wrote and co-star in the new dark comedy webseries, Raising Adults — are not afraid to shoot scenes that feature
OUT OF THIS WORLD NEWS. The Wachowskis’ Netflix sci-fi series, Sense8, that filmed at
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“A WHIRLWIND” SEASON of production – starting with a rush of commercials, four primetime network TV series, along with corporate and webs
The timing was unfortunate but the blizzard made cancellation Wednesday of an advance screening of “The Chicago Code’s” first episode inevitable.
The screening would’ve been held at the Kerosotes Icon theatre
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
IN THE MIDDLE EAST for three weeks is documentarian Malachi Leopold of Left Brain/Right Brain Productions. He is visiting Israel, the West Bank and Gaza