THE LATEST STAR to join the cast of Spike Lee’s “Chiraq” is Jennifer Hudson, who appears along with fellow Chicago natives John Cusack, Common, and Jeremy Piven. Samuel L...
For the third consecutive year, The Hollywood Reporter’s ranked Lakeview-based DePaul theatre school number 18 out of the top 25 drama schools that are the best places to ear...
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to use talents
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like Off The Street Club.”
Nicole Stachura, AbelsonTaylor
The third annual Battle...
SCREENWRITER FREDERICK MENSCH’S “NIGHTINGALE,” based on a Palatine man’s horrific murder of his mother, will premiere on HBO Friday night at 8 p.m. The feature, starrin...
I make a lot of DIY micro features and I’m often asked the screenwriting secret to having produced seven feature films in the last seven years. Detailed here are my Top 10 T...
Cinespace continues to expand its stage capacity, with four new sound stages now under construction that boost the total number of stages to 21. “We took one big space that ...
One-stop, full-service agency, Idea Kitchen, has been launched to work exclusively with restaurants and food service companies. And with Chicago boasting 6,200 full-serv...
Bigger things are ahead for Lee Newman, president at Ogilvy's Chicago office, who was named the U.S. CEO for newly formed Mullen Lowe Group, the merger of Interpublic’s Mullen...
I’m a big fan of “Next Generation Cinema” that’s evolving fast from the combination of a DIY work ethos coupled with smarter, faster and more adept phone platforms and r...
As a champion of local independent filmmaking, ReelChicago is giving its its indie audience an extra boost with the Reel's Indie Funding Guide: a list of area filmmakers seekin...
The biggest Chicago sale of used equipment will take place in early June when millions of dollars worth of top quality gear from Oprah’s Harpo Studios will be auctioned off ...
“THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE” – the small screen adaptation of director Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 movie – starting June 9 will shoot city exteriors for four days. The 13...
At Wednesday night’s 14th annual AICE Awards ceremonies in LA, Cutters and Optimus were voted the Best among US and Toronto editors and postproduction experts competing for ...
Teletech Video, known back in the pre-digital film reel and celluloid days as a major spot duplication and distribution companies, has a new name and a new outlook on business...
For the first time, six visual media-related organizations will bring their respective memberships together for the inaugural “getting to know you” Chicago Creatives Cockt...
Although Kraft’s Country Time Lemonade commercials from Chicago's VSA Partners contain hardly any dialogue and barely a logo, they achieve significant impact for the brand...
THE BROTHERS SINGER, writer/producer David, who is also an award-winning composer, and producer Jonathan, of Coin Operated Films, have lined up an impressive cast for their de...
SEVERAL CHICAGO FILMMAKERS are heading to the May 13-24 Cannes Film Festival to personally further their films’ fortunes. Husband-and-wife team EP Joe Orlandino and writer/d...
Because the 22nd Chicago Underground Film Festival May 13-17 is the largest and longest-running such festival in the USA and takes world cinema outside the mainstream, it’s ...
ON THE HEELS of Energy BBDO losing the Bud Light business to BBDO’s flagship New York office, Lay’s potato chips has said goodbye. Energy BBDO isn’t being replaced ...