SWEET HOME CHICAGO was a spectacular success Monday at the Le Grande Orange restaurant in Santa Monica, when 350 Chicagoans in the industry turned out for a night of meetups,...

Hollywood's gold rush to Iowa blew up in the wake of a scandal late last week when Gov. Chet Culver fired Iowa Film Office director Tom Wheeler and suspended Iowa's incentives ...

A "mini Convergence" networking event, hosted by a trio of new media content providers, is a first effort "to build an active, flexible new media community where people can help...

Music producer Hank Neuberger shot the Warped Tour's 15th Anniversary Show in L.A. on Sept. 6, edited in Chicago, and delivered the master in "ten pressure packed and exhilarat...

"We are definitely still here," says Andrew Ryan, a Pixel Brothers partner, as he punctures the rumor balloons that have been floating around following company layoffs and swit...

THREE PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS went to Siskel/Jacobs Productions for its two-hour documentary, "102 Minutes that Changed America," that reconstructed, in real time, the events of 9...

Tod Lending is delighted to be selling his library of acclaimed documentaries on Fetcher Media, a new DVD-on-Demand service that mini-launched Wednesday in conjunction with the ...

David O'Connor will invest approximately $2 million in the purchase, remodeling and equipping of a West Loop building he purchased that will triple the amount of space his O'Con...

Producer Linda Wolfe is becoming the Barbara Walters of Chicago with the launch of Views on Cue, her interviewing company that focuses exclusively on real people and their stori...

Infused with a batch of proven new talent from Dallas, Vitamin, the digital media arm of Filmworkers Club, has been relaunched and revitalized with plans for expansion into bro...

Life-sized cardboard cutouts of actual children from the Off the Street Club will greet passersby at Michigan Ave. and Pioneer Court Sept. 25, in Euro RSCG's all-day fund-raisin...

HOLLYWOOD MAKEUP ARTIST MAURICE STEIN is helming a Local 476 makeup techniques seminar today through Monday at Essanay Studios, organized by member/makeup artist Helen Marchf...

Director and futurist David Rosen returned from the recent L.A. Collision Conference with great excitement over the merging of still and motion HD technologies. He reports on ...

The lightning speed of postproduction by Chicago HD and a team of editors and audio mixers took Lollapalooza 2009 from Millennium Park to FUSE TV in four days after the last mus...

FOR FAMOUS FOOTWEAR DIGITAL David Rosen directed two high energy short films modeled after a classic ice cream truck, with a "shoe man" donning a white uniform and a jingling be...

Nicholas J. Michalak's "P.I. Dangerous," which will start shooting in Chicago this month, is the third of a trio of dark, brooding crime films that he will complete this year. ...

Louisiana's legislature turbocharged film incentives this year by raising the tax credit to 30%, after it had been scheduled to drop from 25% to 15% by 2012 and killing its suns...

Roger Ebert will make a special guest appearance at the closing ceremonies of the Naperville Film Festival, one of ten film festivals being held in Chicago and Downstate this mo...

The Cramer-Krasselt duo of copywriter Andrei Chahine and art director Ryan Stotts are the winners of Optimus' second annual "One Shot" contest. The script's subject, non-pr...

Leo Burnett, the agency whose signature was big bowls of apples that greeted guests, has hired a Big Apple creative star and modern Peggy Olsen story as its chief creative offi...