The new three-year master contract between SAG AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) covering movie and primetime TV work “is very benefici...
For her entire career in the camera business, Zoe Borys of Cineverse (formerly Fletcher Camera) has been servicing and supporting the camera equipment needs of an ever-widenin...
World-renowned director/photographer Sandro brought his portrait artistry to a two-video docu-style campaign, “Inspired by Authenticity,” for agency Sacramento, Cal.-based ...
A SPECIAL CELEBRITY FLAVOR has been added to Taste of Chicago festivities Thursday, July 10. By special invitation from the city, Elysabeth Alfano’s “The Dinner Party” wi...
A Hollywood blockbuster and two modestly budgeted indie features spending an expected total of $56,641,718 filming throughout Michigan, have been approved by the Michigan Film...
When Magnanimous Media HD video camera rentals moved from a small Bridgeport storefront to a large East Pilsen space last September, the company downsized its former 1,000-sq....
DON’T EXPECT THE DGA to fill the executive director’s position in the Chicago office anytime soon – if at all. The LA-based DGA has told ReelChicago that “no hir...
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...