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...
With the “Mad Men” series returning for its seventh and final season April 7, local adman Steve Platcow, CEO of RPM Advertising, is reviving that glamorous 1960s era&nb...
Filmmaker Spike Lee’s career will be celebrated during the 7th annual CIMMfest as “An Evening of Music, Film & Wine with Spike Lee,” spanning from his breakthrough 198...
By the time Sun-Times had headlined Gov. Bruce Rauner’s demand that Cinespace return a $10 million state grant, studio president Alex Pissios had already sent the uncashed ch...
FORMER CHICAGOANS Colin Costello and George Artope’s short thriller, “Immurement,” will be produced by Bill Artope’s Wild Eye Entertainment starting in ...
Even with “Empire’s” star Terrance Howard playing forward on Local 476’s team, the Studio Mechanics couldn’t muster the chops to beat the formidable Local 600 Inter...
The first-ever exhibition of Chicago-conceived advertising icons to be honored by the Museum of Broadcast Communications will remind the public that many of the great moments ...
Jerry Bryant's JBTV music television is turning to comedy with “Fourstar Stand Ups,” a concept that combines homegrown performers, BYOB crowds and one of the best live pro...
In a March Madness of their own, Local 600 and Local 476 members who work on "Empire," "Chicago PD" and "Chicago Fire" camera and grip crews at Cinespace, will put on their game...
In the course of making Good Things — a 60-second McDonald’s spot that celebrates African American culture and forms part of the restaurant’s social space 365Black.com —...
FOX TV IS SO PLEASED at the cooperation, professionalism and ease of working here on the smash hit “Empire,” that it sent production of two pilots here. They started...
Chicago based producer/writer Blake Anthony, of Blake Anthony, Inc., has joined Joyful Noise, LLC, producers of the music biopic about gospel great Mahalia Jackson, as executive...
After more than six years of Michigan film incentives that brought millions of dollars and thousands of jobs to the distressed state, a bill to end the incentives Oct. 1 narro...
NO SURPRISE THAT LEO BURNETT, which, with its several other agency divisions, dominated the CAF-sponsored nominations with five out of six nods for Agency of the Year, wo...
A bonanza of bands will play this Saturday, March 14 for nearly 13 non-stop hours at the Hideout’s Annual SXSW Send Off Party for 10 local bands heading to Austin.The mini mu...