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WME packaging 11Eleven’s remake of “Doberman Gang”

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 1, 2011

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...

Dennis Ryan joins OLSON, agency of the future

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 27, 2011

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 ...

Indie Focus

Steve Hiller, shooting in India, goes to Viet Nam to film doc

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 25, 2011

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 put 371 local actors in network series

By Ruth Kaufman Feb 25, 2011

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...

Michigan rallies to support tax incentives

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 25, 2011

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...

Bleedout first episodic MMO video game with major weekly updates

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 23, 2011

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...

US warship the base for documenting Project Hope medical aid mission

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 22, 2011

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...

Governor plans to cut popular film tax credits

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 18, 2011

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” pilot shoot starts in mid-March

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 18, 2011

“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...

Two companies combine with a Mighty good idea

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 15, 2011

Backyard Productions and Optimus are sharing their mighty resources in a newly formed “creative production home,” operating autonomously out of Backyard’s Venice, Californ...

SkyPan Int’l shoots 1400’ liftoff for Willis Tower Skydeck

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 15, 2011

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...

L.A. Bucks Boys set up shop in Chicago

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 15, 2011

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...

Jim Sikora feature “The Critics,” 12 years in the making

by Ed M. Koziarski Feb 15, 2011

Twelve years after Jim Sikora shot his film adaptation of Adam Langer’s play “The Critics,” the caustic satire of theatre and the people who cover it finally sees the ligh...

Bryen Hensley’s ADR skills heard on “Chicago Code”

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 15, 2011

Bryen Hensley, Resolution Digital Studio’s engineer/sound designer and ADR expert, recorded ADR for episodes of Fox TV’s “Chicago Code” series airing nationally on Monda...