For a comparatively tiny amount of money, HMS Media is producing an ambtious 13-part, half-hour series with the self-explanatory title, “The Chicago Dance Project.”
Former “Barney Miller” co-star Max Gail will launch an online video series here with an eye toward getting picked up by a TV network.
The two-time Emmy nominee has begun splitting
Production house Tri-Marq Communications, Inc. has joined forces with new Milwaukee post and effects outfit Backlot Imaging, Inc. to offer a combined range of
Chicago’s three Tony Award winning theatre companies are ramping up the star power for the opening shows of the season. The smallest of the
Lakeshore Productions’ internationally-flavored feature “Wicker Park” has opened in theatres to lukewarm reviews. The movie is an adaptation of a French screenplay originally set in Paris, but relocated to Chicago.
Former dramatic and documentary freelance producer/editor Bob Schneiger was named VP/chief creative officer of Towers Productions, Chicago’s biggest documentary TV production companies, with 95 employees and shows for at least
By having been in the right place at the right time, Wiggle Puppy Productions’ director Mark Krieglstein and producer Sara Yule were hired to provide the documentary footage that was
Jennifer Aniston will be “Derailed,” starring opposite Clive Owen in the Miramax Films feature based on James Siegel’s best-selling novel, as reported exclusively in ReelChicago last week. Production begins
The Chicago animation scene is dominated by commercial broadcast, many top firms being divisions of larger post houses or production companies, like Superior Street’s
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This is the second in a two-part survey of local documentarians, who they are, their background and credits. Ranging from national leaders like
Drawing on a rich tradition of bluntness and iconoclasm, Chicago is home to a wealth of documentarians, from TV powerhouses like Towers and Kurtis Productions to national theatrical and TV
Epiphany Pictures got a boost in the long development of their dream project “Sweet Home Chicago” with the signing of new 4th Row Films of New
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After a long professional acquaintance that began on an episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” director Robert Altman and screenwriter
ACROSS THE HALL FOR MITIDIERO. Veteran editor Mickey Mitidiero and partner/business manager George Sosnowski closed their 21-year Lakeshore Productions and moved across the hall into KI Edit Design
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Chicago’s 200 theaters in full swingBy Jonathan Abarbanel A warm and cordial welcome to Jonathan Abarbanel, whose regular columns many of you will remember from the Original Screen magazine. The theatre Up and Down the AvenueJohn Noble joins Element 79 next month as SVP/director of broadcast production, a new position ? actually a first for the agency. He had the same title
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