STEPPENWOLF’S FEATURE, “The Last Rites of Joe May, was selected among a record 5,624 films for screening at the 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York. It will compet...
JOE KEEFE of Long Tail Media Group is producing fridaynitebYtes, a streaming comedy sketch series targeted to tween-and-teen internet users. The members contribute their s...
JBTV, the longest-running source for exposing up-and-coming bands, expanded its broadcast reach through WMAQ’s new “Chicago Nonstop” digital sub channel 5.2 – Chicago’...
Last spring, internet success Mike Rhodes turned his grandiose idea for a tech incubator into reality, when he founded the Syncubator, in a full floor 18,000-sq. ft. West Loop l...
A COMEDY WEB PORTAL called “Fooblik” is being built by Kamath “Kayenn” Nilesh of Argeli Vicar. The production team is producing the series “Fooblik News Network” and...
MICHIGAN FILMMAKERS are fighting as hard as Wisconsin union members to keep their thriving film industry from being chopped off at the knees by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder. &nbs...
PRODUCERS OF “THE BOSS” correctly chose Chicago over Pittsburgh for the location of the 8-episode series starring Kelsey Grammer as a Chicago mayor who faces the news he’s...
“Butterbean,” a $15 million movie in development -– called “’The King’s Speech’ of America” -- is the true life story of 1970s Chicago Bulls basketball star Bob ...
WME is packaging two of the several projects that local producer Darren Reagan is developing through his 11Eleven Entertainment.The agency is onboard for Reagan and “Dog Whisp...
Fast growing independent Minneapolis-based OLSON agency has been on an acquisition tear since last May, when it bought a Chicago PR firm, which serves as its Chicago office; in ...
STEVEN HILLER of Hesperus Films is shooting Rachel Cook’s Microlending Film: A Documentary About Enterprising Women in India and Bangladesh this month. They filmed in Pa...
Claire Simon Casting so far has cast the most Chicago AFTRA actors in network television shows, 371 in all – 198 in the 13 episodes of Fox’ “The Chicago Code,” and 173 i...
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE packed the Laurel Manor in Livonia Thursday to show their support for Michigan’s film industry and save it from the chopping block."This is not about savin...
The final episode of the massively multi-player online game (MMO) CrimeCraft: Bleedout, will be released March 5 by Vogster Entertainment. It’s the first MMO to offer ma...
Pasquale Iannino of Rockit Projects spent three weeks in October and November living aboard amphibious warship USS Iwo Jima and flying daily into the South American countries Gu...
After waiting nervously for Republican Gov. Rick Snyder to reveal what Michigan filmmakers hoped and prayed would be moderate tax incentive changes, their worst fears were reali...
“PLAYBOY,” THE NBC PILOT, about the start of the Playboy Clubs in Chicago, about the opening of the first Playboy Club in Chicago in 1963 (at the site of what is now the 1...
Backyard Productions and Optimus are sharing their mighty resources in a newly formed “creative production home,” operating autonomously out of Backyard’s Venice, Californ...
Aerial photographers branching out from core business in real estateVisitors to the Willis Tower Skydeck are presented with the opportunity to experience their 1400’ elevation...
The timing of Bucks Boys Productions’ big shoot in Chicago for Silk soy milk/Leo Burnett, will be remembered for its timing. “We started the shoot in January and wrapp...