Detroit is the first stop for the 23rd annual AICP Show on its 10-city awards tour, following its June 12 premiere at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. This marks the AICP Sh...
WRITER/DIRECTOR DANIEL NEARING’S murder mystery, Hogtown, with a multi-racial cast of 70, filmed in black-and-white and set in post WWI Chicago, premieres at the Gene Siskel...
The turnout for last Thursday’s first “Chicago Film & TV Industry Networking Event and Pitches” was “a ridiculously amazing turnout and so great for this city,” ...
Last weekend, 24 of the most important and influential talent agents and casting directors -- from places like Dreamworks, Comedy Central, Fox, ABC and CBS and famous talent ...
The Force is with us! It’s a triumph that the George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art elected to settle in Chicago instead of Lucas’ native San Francisco, where he founded Lu...
Classes starting June 23 at the Second City Training Center will include a new program on TV, film and digital to give improv actors a place to hone their on-screen skills in...
JULIAN GRANT (Sweet Leaf) wrote and is directing Finding Hope, a drama about a man fighting to win back his wife after a tragic accident, produced by Two 9 Productions and curr...
Billy Zane (Titanic) has signed on to the already strong cast of Duane Edward’s indie comedy Supreme Ruler, planned to shoot here this fall. A Chicago native and current res...
For those of you who would like to a see a comparison of which camera lens would be best for your job at hand, a group of professionals – led by director Jeremy Pinckert and ...
Versatile, multi-honored, Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Kline, whose body of work spans four decades, from comedy to serious dramas, will receive a well deserved Lif...
THE NEWS OF CH. 11 axing of dedicated and capable Holly Gilson was disheartening. In a statement explaining her termination, the station praised her to the sky, calling he...
What appears to be Chicago’s first open mike film pitch, so to speak, will take place as part of a broader collaborative networking evening called “Chicago Film &...
What started out as an ambitious stage complex and an industry training center but became a financial albatross to the city of Allen Park is in the process of being sold for $12...
After ten years in a dark storefront in Old Irving Park, the Media Burn Independent Video archive moved a few weeks ago to a bright, sun-filled fourth floor loft at 935 W. Ch...
NGN PRODUCTIONS (The Mask) of Studio City is developing the thriller feature The End of the Night for production next year on a $1-3 million budget. Associate producer T...
Hub studios’ owners, real estate developer Denis Kulich and producer/director Mark Cwiakala, officially opened their new 10,000-sq. ft. shooting stage recently in Ukranian Vi...
Chicago-based filmmaker Christopher Nolen rounded up an all star cast from LA, led by Chicago natives Harry Lennix (“The Black List”) and Cynda Williams (“One False Move...
Andy and Lana Wachowski’s first-ever TV series will start a production roll of three new TV series filming here this summer and fall, making up for the parched spell of TV ...
CRAMER-KRASSELT CHAIRMAN /CEO Peter Krivkovich candid internal memo Wednesday telling the staff why the agency fired two-year old client Panera Bread. He said whatever they di...
Credit Leviathan for design and production of the film noir main titles for Starz new original series, "Power," produced by rapper 50 Cent (formally Curtis Jackson) and create...