ONE AT OPTIMUS has expanded its Chicago-Santa Monica directorial roster with the addition of L.A.-based Jim Matlosz, who will focus on sports and product/tabletop, and Ryan Bosworth, who has a
The producers of “Powers,” a TV pilot for Sony TV and FX Productions reportedly coming here in mid-June, are no strangers to shooting television entertainment in Chicago.
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“SUPERMAN: MAN OF STEEL” lands in Chicago in early summer for a reported 12 weeks of prep and 12 weeks of filming. The Warner Bros. blockbuster-budgeted adventure/fantasy stars handsome, young Brit
There’s still time on Monday to phone your state senator and urge him to vote “no” on Senate Bill 4 coming up for passage Tuesday in the Senate in Springfield.
PONTIAC — While Chicago waits for Cinespace Studios to fish or cut bait, Michigan went all out to welcome Pontiac’s big, new Raleigh Studios. Nine hundred guests attended the
THE PRODUCTION TEAM that made the feature documentary, “Postales,” are elated that it is an official selection of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, June 16-27, their first and
Proving the old adage that “it never rains but it pours,” Chicago is now hosting production of six television pilots, the most that has ever descended on the city in
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
While it was believed the owner of three Toronto movie studios was also the owner of an $80 million movie studio for Chicago, it turns out that a local group
Construction is underway to convert a 330,000-sq. ft warehouse into the first of what could be seven to soundstages for Chicago Film Studios, on the 50 acre Ryerson Steel
When Cinespace Chicago owner Nick Mirkopoulos brought property 21 years ago on Booth St. in Toronto, the timing coincided with the Canadian government’s decision to make film production the
