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...
Canon reps Ed Meyers and Tim Smith unveiled the EOS C300, touted as the company’s first bona fide cinema camera, in its Chicago debut Jan. 26 at the Gene Siskel Film Center. M...
Only six months after accepting the artistic director’s job at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Timothy Douglas has resigned the post. Longtime Remy Bumppo artistic associate Nick...
The Chicago Screenwriters Networks’ screenwriting contest is officially underway for the fourth consecutive year and the enthusiastic new CSN board is determined to make this ...
Let’s just say it flat out. “Smash” is a train wreck of a show like few others we’ve ever endured on TV. And get ready. It’s headed right at us in Chicago ...
FOUNDATION has rounded out its editorial staff with the Jan. 16 arrival of director/editor Robert Stockwell, who joined after four years at Draftfcb, where he had been an active...
In the eyes of a lot of local ad executives, the Chicago Cubs have just struck out. Big time. The team lost a big chunk of potential fans from Chicago’s advertising indu...
In a stunner that is sure to have major ramifications for Downtown Partners/Chicago, sources say Walgreens is launching an ad agency review. That could mean big problems f...
Cutters’ current expansion knows no bounds. Chicago’s biggest post company has just implemented its L.A. operation with two high-profile editors and a Chicago-transfer...
THE KIDNAPPING OF A TYCOON set during the tumultuous 1918 Chicago race riots is the subject of Hogtown, being produced by Daniel Nearing’s 923 Films and shooting now until Jun...
In a first-ever event of its kind, writer/director Bob Hercules’ documentary Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance will be simulcast to more than 40 theaters on the second nigh...
NEW EDGEWATER HOME FOR RIVENDELL. The ensemble theater, which is now in its 18th year of production (16th year of being an official nonprofit), celebrates its first permanent ho...
After six weeks of top-to-bottom renovation, Product Productions’ new full-service Space Stage Studios is up and running in what had been Steve Broderick’s old West Grand St...
SOME 200 GUESTS, including many Chicagoans, are expected to attend Brenda Sexton’s annual Sundance party Sunday night that she is hosting at the magnificent private home of Cr...
Michigan's largest film production studio will likely default on a bond payment due in two weeks, sticking the state's pension funds with the $630,000 obligation, according a Ja...
