Greg Glienna, creator of the original "Meet the Parents," shot a series of three comedy shorts last weekend for Len Austrevich's company, Either Way Works, as a "warm up" for a...

FIRST ASSIGNMENT for Towers Productions' new casting director, Becky Cattie is to find the perfect cast for Towers' "Housewives of Chicago" reality TV show, currently in dev...

With over 200 feature and TV credits spanning a three-decade career, stuntman Rick LeFevour has taken hits from, and on behalf of, stars such as Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, and Nic...

At spring training earlier this year, White Sox general manager Ken Williams and three of the players stepped up to bat to hit home positive messages aimed at kids. As soon...

James Allen Smith plans a local theatrical release for his recently completed documentary "Floored," about the final days of open air trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange....

The grand prize winner among 13 semi-finalists in the first Chicago Screenwriters Network script contest will go home with a $1,000 check, a trophy and an armload of valuable p...

DURING THEIR FOUR WHIRLWIND DAYS in L.A., a Chicago sales contingent saw 19 producers, several with possible projects for the state, says Local 476's Mark Hogan. He was acco...

One of Chicago's most durable industry icons will "transition" from a lifetime of operating a film business to doing what he loves most ? teaching up-and-coming filmmakers and ...

Chicago's first, non-station produced celebrity late night talk show premiered July 3 on CBS Ch. 2, with the pilot episode of "The Good Night Chicago Show." Hosted and produc...

Non Fiction Films of L.A. was the first customer to use the 3,000 sq. ft. first floor space to prep for a two day location shoot for Ford, followed by @Radical Media, also L.A....

West Michigan will bustle with filming activity this summer, says West Michigan film commissioner Rick Hert, with two indie features filming in Grand Rapids in July and August...

IPA president Lars Ullberg calls it "the incentives arms race," and Hollywood Deadline Hollywood Daily writer Nikki Finke calls it "a cutthroat biz these days." Wisconsin h...

"PUBLIC ENEMIES," with a reported $100 million-budget that provided a bank vault of welcome revenue for Illinois and Wisconsin (although unappreciated by Wisconsin Gov. Jim ...

A WINNING LOTTERY STORY for a change. The Illinois Lottery's agency, Energy BBDO, actually assigned its new commercial to a 100% bona fide Chicago production company. Founda...

Villa Park duplication and video production services house CopyMaster Video celebrates 25 years this month in an industry that has been almost entirely transformed since the com...

CLAIRE CONNELLY, IFP board president, is producer of Josh Hyde's debut feature "Postales," which was one of 10 films selected to participate in IFP Narrative Film Lab's week-l...

September is going to be a bonanza month for film festival fans. As of now, seven uniquely different fests are scheduled throughout the state, and others surely will be announc...

Wisconsin's hard-earned and effective film tax incentives became history, for time being anyway, when Gov. Jim Doyle used his veto authority in the biennial budget Monday mornin...

Karma Entrepreneurs founder, Davis Jones, is calling out to Chicago filmmakers to collaborate on an innovative new web series, designed to promote musician/composer Justin Sconz...

When the Shedd Aquarium reopened its Oceanarium exhibit recently after a nine-month, $50 million facelift, it included a 3D animated video of a South African penquin habitat, cr...