Let’s talk tourism. Specifically the marketing of Chicago to tourists. We’ve actually been talking about the topic for years. And we’ve often been disappointed ...
Five Zacuto employees got together a year ago to produce the first episode of a sci-fi/adventure/comedy web series. Now the third episode of their “Hank Frisco: Galaxy D...
Step right up ladies and gents and get your front row seats! You too can see what promises to be one of the greatest and saddest spectacles in recent television history.&n...
Score another network TV show for Greg Allan’s Sonixphere. ABC’s new Tuesday night show, “Celebrity Wife Swap,” is the music company’s third network show, for wh...
Eight accomplished local artists and photographers exhibit their widely varied and eclectic images on the walls throughout Utopic’s 9,000-sq. ft. space at the integrated studi...
Among the artists like Paul McCartney, Adele, Cold Play, Rihanna and Bruce Springsteen who will appear at music’s biggest night next Saturday, Feb. 12 is a Chicago celebrity.&...
Andrew Cook, Chicago’s only non-union gaffer who comes equipped with his own trucks and gear, is celebrating his 25th business anniversary. To help mark the occasion, The Reel...
Indie filmmaker, screenwriter and New York Times best-selling author of 14 books, Jay Bonansinga is the keynote speaker at the Feb. 11 all-day symposium, “Pen to Digital Press...
They’ve been neighbors in the same building for years, but Profiles Theatre and National Pastime Theater will be widening the physical gap between their companies in the month...
SHOWTIME WILL AIR John Davies and Reid Brody’s acclaimed feature-length doc “Phunny Business: A Black Comedy,” Feb. 23 at 8:30 p.m. in celebration of Black History Month.&...
February gets underway with a burst of worthwhile screenings and other events, starting with a sneak preview Friday night, Feb. 3 of co-producers Boris Wexler and Julian Grant...
Cutters Detroit and sister company Moonlink are sharing the unique dual skills of new arrival Jim Talbot, possibly the only combination editor/DP among Detroit production/post c...
Whoever said we humans are creatures of habit was right. For years, however, that truism has been a source of more than a little frustration to more than a few general managers ...
Raleigh Studios in Pontiac, Michigan is expected to default on $18 million in state issued bonds that were part of the financing for the $80 million studio complex that opened w...
A combined total of 190,000 members of Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists will vote on the merger of the two major talent unions a...
L.A. BASED ORIAN WILLIAMS, who produced the Joy Division biopic Control, has signed on to produce Winnetka native actor/director Alex Beh’s feature directorial debut, the comi...
When post producer Lauren Shawe returned to Chicago after seven years in New York, Leviathan’s Chad Hutson, recognizing how the quality of her internet, visual effects and pos...
What does one do for a second act in advertising? It’s always a tough question. Made even more so when one’s first act produced what may be the single best TV co...
THE “CHICAGO FIRE” PILOT is scheduled to shoot here March 14 through April 1, according to the Chicago Film Office’s Rich Moskal, who says no cast or director is confirm.&...
Filmmaker Edward T. McDougal’s inspiring historical feature, “Dog Jack,” opens theatrically nationwide in celebration of February’s Black History Month -- a year after t...
