Satirical, comedic "The Onion" and its commercial affiliate, “Onion Labs” will receive the first Commitment to Excellence in New Media Award from the Chicago International ...
This is it! Lake FX and CIMMfest’s schedule of 16 specially organized events exclusively pertaining to different aspects of film, presented by 72 of Chicago’s expert, ...
PRODUCER BOB TEITEL is scheduled to be back in his home town this August on the feature dramady, “Southside with You,” the story of Michelle Robinson and Barack Obama’s f...
New York-headquartered camera sales and service provider giant AbelCine will settle in at Cinespace in mid-summer, offering a unique Learning Point for on-going educational work...
SPIKE LEE has set up shop at Cinespace Studios to start prepping for his anti-violence comedy called “Chiraq,” to be budgeted at $15 million. It will start filming June 1 ...
A Guggenheim Fellowship, perhaps the most prestigious award in the world for creative endeavor, was officially awarded Wednesday to filmmaker Daniel Nearing of 9.23 Films....
Producer/director Carl Amari’s mega, $5 million celebrity voice, word-for-word dramatization of the Bible will get underway in Chicago April 20 after 18 months in developmen...
Optimus’ traditional August Block Party this year could be the biggest of all in the previous 20 years, since it marks the company’s last such party in its present loc...
Riding the crest of its recent success producing original music for national broadcast spots, Steven Vandeven’s Static Studios is offering clients the services of three...
SHARON ZUREK’S COMPELLING DOC, “A Mind in Quicksand — Life with Huntington’s,” produced by her Black Cat Productions, will screen April 9 prior to its national PBS air...
On a lark in February, 2013, Frederick Mensch, who runs MovieBytes, a market resource for screenwriters, posted his own one man dramatic screenplay, “Nightingale,” on Blac...
Premiering at CIMMfest Saturday, April 18 will be Grammy-nominated director John Anderson’s wondrous Sam Lay in Bluesland, a documentary about the celebrated blues drumme...
MARK RUFFALO will receive the 2015 Renaissance Award from the Gene Siskel Film Center (GSFC) of the Art Institute of Chicago to celebrate his accomplishments as an actor, direc...
Whitehouse Post on April 22 will receive the prestigious Commitment to Excellence Award for Television Commercials from the 5lst Chicago International Film Festival Tele...
Chicago Recording Company has launched “CRC Live,” a six-part series of archived music videos that were recorded in their big Studio 4 and post Tuesdays on RedEye Chicago an...
The 31st Chicago Latino Film Festival's Thursday, April 9, Opening Night / Night of Venezuela film marks the only US theatrical run for “The Liberator,” a rousing epic abou...
AN EXCLUSIVE MEMBERS-ONLY meeting of Women in Film, Thursday, April 2, will them an opportunity to meet new Illinois Film Office director Christine Dudley, who will participat...
Perhaps the Chicago Ad Federation, host of the annual Addy Awards, will be inspired to change the name of the Addys to “The Leos,” considering that three Publicis-owned a...
AN NBC NETWORK reality show will start filming in Chicago in July. Ellen DeGeneres’ company is producing eight episodes of “First Dates” with Shed Media, part of t...
Chicago actor Mandy Patinkin, a lifelong White Sox fan and skilled narrator seemed a natural to front a 90-minute Chicago Sports Net Chicago (CSNC) documentary about the South S...