There’s no third season shooting in Chicago for USA Network’s quirky comedy half-hour “Sirens” series about a group of paramedics in Chicago. Low ratings did it in, des...
Chicago–based artist, designer, photographer and NoPattern Studio founder Chuck Anderson has joined Havas Worldwide in the new position of creative director of design. He wi...
Beginning last September, award-winning documentarian Ines Sommer of Sommer Filmworks, kept farmers’ grueling dawn-to-dusk hours filming a farming family on their 12-acre org...
Roy Skillicorn, who built a big, Chicago-based bicoastal production company, has been hired by Digital Kitchen to launch and lead its new DK Studios, aimed at fulfilling the my...
Filmmaker / actor Joe Swanberg will present his latest indie comedy, "Digging For Fire," about marriage, parenting, mystery and murder, as the opening selection of the 3rd annu...
Veteran colorist Craig Leffel signed with Filmworkers for representation of color correction projects in the Midwest, in addition to heading Big Spoon Industries, which he for...
“Chicagoland Shorts” is a series of the best non-mainstream shorts culled from local film festivals, micro- and niche-cinema and film schools premiering at Facets Cinemath...
Nelson Carvajal’s “Apehood,” a hybrid movie trailer that combines characters from “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” with the setting from “Boyhood,” has been nomi...
BIG PARTY TONIGHT hosted by Corey Coken and Jamie Vanadia’s NoiseFloor to celebrate the opening night of the seventh consecutive year of CIMMfest, which, in association with...
The pilot for “The Blexicans,” a half-hour sitcom series being directed here by Bill Duke for Red Dove Media, gets underway April 27 for five days at Cinespace and in the ...
Chicago’s spring showcase, CIMMfest 7, kicks off Thursday with spectacular music, films and kick ass concerts including a number of tantalizing Old School looks back at the ...
WTTW/11’s executive producer Ann Gleason and producer Dan Protess did the impossible when they selected 13 eclectic, interesting and diverse restaurants and bars out of 6,2...
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...