The first incentives to be announced in 2012 by the Michigan Film Office for an entertainment project were approved prior to Dec. 31, using last year’s $25 million incentive f...
The new Canon Cinema EOS System C300 camera, designed and built from the ground-up for people who shoot movies and TV shows, will be presented at a Jan. 26 open house the Gene S...
What is it about CBS and round tables? When it comes to conceptualizing talk shows, somebody there must be hooked big time on seating people in a circle. On Wednesda...
WHAT A CONCEPT! We hear that the IFO is making a concerted effort to making sure that one of the two vacancies designated for a location scout actually will be filled by an indu...
Illinois’ new Live Theater Production Tax Credit will put stage production on par with the benefits that film and TV received from the production tax credit, says Deb Clapp, e...
When Nathan Brown was in college in St. Louis, he was told that if he wanted to get into advertising he should drive up to Chicago, pick a company that sounded interesting and j...
And then there were two. Late Friday afternoon — very late — Illinois Lottery private manager Northstar Lottery Group posted the two finalists still in the running for...
SISKEL/JACOBS PRODUCTIONS’ documentary Louder Than a Bomb, about the local high school slam poetry competition, had its broadcast premiere Jan. 5 on OWN. The doc i...
A BIG WEEK OF EVENTS kicks off Wednesday, Jan. 11 with a New Media Program featuring L.A.-based casting director and pioneering new media producer Susan Johnston, and covering m...
Out-Write Media this month will deliver to WTTW the seven-episode first season of its national PBS bicycle travel series Pedal America, edited by Luminair’s Annie Speicher and...
GIFT GIVING DOESN’T END with Christmas in the theatre world. Three companies received well-deserved grants that will be put to good use, starting with the John D. and Ca...
ILLINOIS RULES! To make up for painful omissions in Best Location lists compiled throughout the year, venerable international locations publication P3 Update Magazine named Illi...
We fear it is going to be a very long election year indeed for TV viewers who opt to turn to CNN to follow the many presidential primaries and other events as they unfold. For a...
After just six months VP and managing director of Protokulture, Jim Olen left the design, post, and production firm Dec. 16. Olen explains his departure this way: “When you wo...
Alex Kyger, with a notable background in knowing how to keep a theatre company in the black, joined Lifeline Theatre - specializing in original literary adaptations - as th...
Here for the sixth consecutive year is ReelChicago’s exclusive and roundup of entertainment and commercial production activity for the previous year, based on official Chicago...
The New Year starts on a positive note for brothers Jeff and Lee Faclis as their Resolution Digital Studios and Show Department companies emerge from the Chapter 11 bankruptcy f...
For the talk diva who reigned in regal fashion on television for more than a quarter century, it was a stunning admission of near total failure. In a lay-bare-your-problems inte...
Two veteran Illinois Film Office employees retired Dec. 30, ostensibly leaving vacancies for their jobs. But filling those positions may not be as clear cut as applying fo...
After a five-year absence, the 22nd Chicago Film Critics Awards (CFCA) takes the spotlight at the Broadway Playhouse in Water Tower on Jan. 7, it again will be the first of the ...
