“Chicago Med,” the talked about third panel of Dick Wolf’s popular “Chicago” triptych, is looming as a sure thing as seven new characters will be introduced in “C...
Fox Television has greenlit two dramatic pilots for production in Chicago. “Love is a Four Letter Word” and “Runner” will headquarter and shoot at Cinespace, joining ...
AN ALL-STAR PANEL OF EXPERTS from various sectors of film production will be worth braving the weather Sunday, Feb. 8, to hear their discussion of “How Different Media Disci...
Producer Erik Crary and director Steven Piet's first feature will be among the 145 indie films from famous international directors, actors and first time filmmakers screenin...
"French CATastrophe," a film by Chicago-based husband and wife team Michael Gabriele and Alana Grelyak, snagged the prestigious “Golden Litter Scoop” award at the 2015 Cat...
“Who Gets the Dog?” the latest low-budget feature from Reid Brody and Bill Ryan’s 2D2 Productions and Epic Pictures Group gets underway Monday, Feb. 2 for three weeks.&...
Writer/director Kris Swanberg and her filmmaker-husband Joe Swanberg — tagged “the first couple at Sundance” — came home from Park City each having scored big hits wit...
Better late than never, they say. And so six months after its announced July release date, Warner Bros. will release "Jupiter Ascending," on Feb. 6. Writer/directors and prod...
February Black History Month in Chicago starts off Sunday, Feb. 1 with a program of three rare films (one shot on Super 8), about the city’s first black mayor, Harold Washi...
Jerry Bryant has put up for sale his massive, one-of-a-kind JBTV archive of 30,000 remastered, first generation digibeta music videos from the ‘80s, ‘90s and 2000s in order...
Out of the 34 highly anticipated spots airing on Sunday’s Super Bowl XLIX, 15 of them are newcomers to the annual television spectacular that 100 million Americans are expe...
CHICAGO CAN BOAST PRODUCTION HERE of two top-rated TV shows for Fox networks. Ratings for the Jan. 26 season opening of Towers Productions reality show "Strange Inheritance" w...
This time next year, Rosemary and David Deahl’s Big Deahl Productions should be settled into its new Los Angeles area location, as David Deahl continues his lengthy, a...
Little did Particle/Onda’s Steven Aguilar know when he was asked to handle sound for director Brad Besser’s feature doc, "Beaver Trilogies Part IV," that it would screen at...
Talks are ongoing between Comcast SportsNet Chicago (CSN) and WLS/7 to have Comcast produce the 25 Chicago Cubs games that ABC O&O WLS/7 has contracted to telecast for eac...
Craig Leffel’s inaugural project for his new company took off in a big way — a Delta Airlines’ online spot that was directed by Sam Ciaramitaro, a multi Cannes Gold Lion...
DDB Chicago’s new EVP/group creative director, David Banta, moves to the Windy City from Boston to head all creative work on the agency’s estimated $265 million Capital O...
Distinguished author Adam Morgan fittingly celebrated the release of his new book by leading a discussion at DDB Chicago, one of the shops where he had worked during his 17 yea...
For the first time since the Illinois Film Office's Production Guide switched from print to a digital publication, sometime in the mid-‘90s (to the best of anyone’s re...
A mockumentary, "The Great Chicago Filmmaker," by filmmaker Michael Jolls, screening Jan. 26 at the Landmark Century Centre Cinema, aims the camera at burgeoning director...