In a new video, R. Kelly soulfully and sweetly sings his ?When a Woman Loves," his first official single off his upcoming album, "Love Letter." While the video has a classic re...

Stanley Cup-winning Chicago Blackhawks hit the ice in five innovative spots, created by Ogilvy & Mather and produced by One at Optimus and Optimus post. The dramatic new campai...

ABC 7 HIRED TWO DAYTIME PROS to create and oversee a new post-Oprah live, local morning show to originate from Ch. 7' State Street studios. Heading the production team o...

Video editor Brian Sarfatty of Evanston is currently editing Elise Jaffe's children's educational and fun "Fooditude" series, which perfectly matches his creative focus of editi...

MARIO BUCCA is writer-producer-director of the romantic thriller "And They Call It Puppy Love," shooting in late November and December. "It's about "gays, guns and gangster...

Improv actor Ted Tremper's improv show "Break-ups: The Series" was awarded best original series at the inaugural Vimeo Festival + Awards, held earlier this month in New York. ...

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...