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...
Chicago’s Optimus is connecting the talents and services of New York’s Nice Shoes, an industry-leading color grading and finishing studio, with Chicago agencies, remotely...
Thad Donovan, president/creative director and producer Carly Smith of Northwest Indiana’s Smith Donovan Marketing Communications, make their first film this summer, Alexis Ro...
Jerry Bryant’s long-running JBTV hosted a concert featuring nationally renowned hometown duo, Local H, on a recent Thursday night. It was a one-of-a-kind musical experience...
The doc, "Jens Jensen the Living Green," the story of the pioneering conservationist who created many neighborhood Chicago parks, gets a rare simulcast June 19. WTTW/11 will ai...
For a few nervous weeks, it looked like Michigan’s $50 million in film incentives would be chopped down, again, as Gov. Rick Snyder’s 2015 budget called for a cutback to ...
Just six weeks ahead of its scheduled July 16 release, Andy and Lana Wachowski postponed the opening of their sci-fi epic, “Jupiter Ascending,” eight months hence to Feb. ...
Howard Tullman, CEO of 1871, the Chicago-based entrepreneurial hub for digital startups, is one of Music Dealers’ four new senior appointments in forwarding its goal of “b...
The first project for Bridges Media’s new post division, 11 Dollar Bill, is editing a 10-part reality series for agency Super Genius set to air in August on Velocity, a Disco...
A new concept in audio post that the partners believe will stir things up opened Monday in two different locations and with a female engineer/sound designer at the helm of on...
TWELVE WORTHY FILMMAKERS were awarded $100,000 in grants from The Chicago Digital Media Production Fund, in amounts ranging from $3,850 to $10,000, for projects designed to adv...
After 15 years of making thousands of people laugh, the popular Saturday midnight improv show “The Hot Karl,” called a cross between “Monty Python” and Don Rickles, wi...
Since opening an office here in January, “the reception has been wonderful, wildly surpassing our expectations,” says Robin Hellmann, Chicago casting director for Texas-ba...
NEW ZEALAND'S CURIOUS FILM has dived into the North America market with the appointment of Chris Breneman as Head of Sales USA, based in Chicago. He’s now the link to all thi...