Three films produced by local filmmakers and one from a director with Chicago ties took the Audience Choice Awards at the just concluded 46th annual Chicago International Film F...

GRAND RAPIDS. About 120 people gathered for a noontime rally in support of Michigan's film incentive, which pays up to 42 percent of a project's production costs. The rally ...

Michigan Film Office director Carrie Jones, 34, hadn't previously worked in arts or entertainment, but when the film incentives were created, "I knew that it was something I wan...

At the Windy City West party hosted by Brenda Sexton earlier this month, some 400 strong Chicago natives -- those with area ties and some who flew out especially for the party...

BMEDIA AND FALCON PICTURE GROUP have formed a marketing partnership for the Protestant audio bible "The Word of Promise." featuring Jim Caviezel at Jesus, with narrator Michael ...

Writer/director/producer Don Thacker left behind a career as a marketing executive to found the production company Imagos Films and shoot his debut feature, the macabre creature...

Directors Joe Otting and Adam Sobocienski's Fiber Films may well represent the next business model of commercial production. "We're remote," Otting says, "and nimble. Ther...

The International Latino Cultural Center, which produces the Chicago Latino Film Festival, has partnered with Comcast to launch the Chicago Latino Filmmaker Program. Last Fri...

For Mark Woods, this year -- "a record year, an insane year" for his nine year old Camera Crane Specialists ? isn't over yet, with the arrival Monday of Steven Soderbergh's big...

"Top Chef" contestant Valerie Bolon and Elysian Hotel's Jason McLeod will join other area chefs in creating favorite specialty childhood treats for "A Taste of Fooditude" party ...

RAPPER-TURNED-ACTOR 50 CENT (Curtis Jackson) landed a whopping $200 million funding deal for a 10-picture deal for his Cheetah Vision company, the company Fiddy launched with ...

A TOTAL OF FIVE U.S.-made films won Chicago International Film Festival Gold and Silver Hugo awards. One of those five was a Best Actress Silver Hugo statuette to Liana Libe...

TWO TOP AWARD-WINNING CREATIVES, Ken Erke and Matt Marcus, joined the Chicago office of R/GA, called advertising's most creative interactive agency, as executive creative dire...

DAVID SCHWIMMER AND ALAN CUMMING are the stars at CIFF's Red Carpet Monday night. The Festival welcomes openly gay actor Cumming, who receives the fest's Artistic Achievement...

GOLD HUGOS TEND TO BE SCARCE around these parts, so it was with understandable great excitement that Foundation Content's Samantha Hart received word of a Gold Hugo awarded ...

The Odd Machine ? the year-old full-service production company of partners Seth Henrickson, Chris Shegich and Debra Shegich ? has named Tom Leonard as executive producer. Odd...

Dirty Cricket Productions, which produces the "Lady Parts" live and online sketch comedy series, has partnered with Gorilla Tango Theater's new financing arm to release the DVD ...

FLINT: COMEDY FEATURE "Tetherball," a feature comedy that was initially scheduled to shoot in Ann Arbor switched to Flint when the producers found more of the locations they...

When local rockers Styx launch their national Grand Illusion tour Oct. 14 in Evansville, Indiana, it will be their fourth tour in front of video created by Steven A. Jones. T...

Two successful Hollywood players take two unique and different approaches on how to break through the dense and mysterious world of creating screenplays that sell. Sterling A...