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Wachowskis’ epic ‘Cloud Atlas’ is CIFF centerpiece

By Mike Morgan Sep 19, 2012

Leave it to founder/artistic director Michael Kutza and the board and staff of the Chicago and the 48th International Film Festival to elevate the city’s culture level with th...

Agency GCD’s horror script set for $2mm production

By Kerry Devine Sep 19, 2012

On the fast track: Only five short years ago, T.J. Cimfel, top creative at a health care ad agency, decided to be a screenwriter after spending years searching for the right fic...

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Music Box hosts United Film Festival Sept. 22-27

By Ed M. Koziarski Sep 19, 2012

THE UNITED FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box Theatre Sept. 22-27 with a program that includes some 19 narrative and documentary features and 21 shorts. Some highlights are ...

New-to-Chicago Liquid 9 hosts Sept. 20 Open House

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 18, 2012

LIQUID 9 CELEBRATES ITS LAUNCH as a new Chicago production company with separate post and music divisions, at an Open House Thursday, 6 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20 in new spa...

Gala fundraiser to preserve historic Essanay Oct. 6

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 18, 2012

Inside what was Essanay Studios in Uptown, actors Charlie Chaplin, Wallace Beery, Gloria Swanson, Ben Turpin and other icons starred in silent one-reelers that were churned out ...

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Art smart Burnett/Arc’s public ploy promotes theatre

By Lewis Lazare Sep 18, 2012

There they were Sunday morning. A couple of hundred people gathered around the staircase inside the Michigan Avenue entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago. They we...

Digital replacing film the issue in GSFC doc Sept. 17

By Mike Morgan Sep 14, 2012

“Side by Side,” the doc that looks at digital technology’s effect on filmmaking screens Monday, Sept. 17 at the Gene Siskel Film Center (GSFC). With the inexorable r...

Hear those ‘Sirens?’ Denis Leary pilot on its way

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 13, 2012

DENIS LEARY gets back to his comedian’s chops with a pilot he’s been co-writing and developing for the past year for Fox TV Studios. The single camera half-hour comedy...

New HBO Go digital airs ‘Single Long’ comedy series

by Ed M. Koziarski Sep 13, 2012

Jack Lawrence Mayer, Sarra Jahedi and Ed Hausman were a year out of the University of Chicago when they created the comedy pilot Single Long, based in part on a weekly web serie...

Region’s only gyro-stabilized robotic camera arm

By Ed M. Koziarski Sep 13, 2012

Since July, Midwest Camera Car has begun offering the region’s only locally-available gyro-stabilized robotic camera arm: a Russian Arm from Toronto-based Filmotechnic Canada....

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Positive Pompous Society feedback, but bashing, too

By Lewis Lazare Sep 13, 2012

What would any successful event be without a useful post-mortem? And that post-mortem is what the Pompous Society eagerly convened Tuesday night at the Farmhouse, a Midwes...

Optimus brings Oboza back home as its top colorist

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 12, 2012

For Oscar Oboza, being named Optimus’ senior colorist means more than having a new position. It’ll be a homecoming for the Chicago native who has spent the last 13 yea...

Paul rebuilding Energy BBDO with Mallers as new CFO

By Lewis Lazare Sep 11, 2012

One thing we can say with certainty about Energy BBDO/Chicago CEO Tonise Paul, she prefers to keep her agency’s internal business out of the public spotlight and aw...

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Mike Nussbaum leads Seanachai’s fundraiser Sept. 11

By Kerry Reid Sep 10, 2012

THE FALL THEATER SEASON is in full swing, and with it comes an array of autumnal soirees. Tuesday, Sept. 11, Seanachai Theatre Company – the company steeped in Irish storytell...

WTTW joins cost saving, single master control venture

By Mike Morgan Sep 10, 2012

A $7 million grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will fund start-up costs for a single master control venture called the Digital Convergence Alliance (DCA), betwe...

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