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...

BOB HERCULES AND KEITH WALKER'S Media Process Group celebrate their 25th anniversary with a retrospective screening of excerpts from six of their documentaries starting with 198...

After two years at ARU, audio engineer Cory Coken left to join another audio house ? NoiseFloor, the audio post house he founded with designer/mixer Jamie Vanadia in October, 2...

This year's 52nd Chicago|Midwest Emmy Awards ceremonies Nov. 6 appears to be the wrap-up of a very busy festival and awards season for 2010. Park West is the venue where 70...

Wisconsin filmmakers who are promoting the value of reinstating state film incentives have actor Tony Shalhoub speaking out in their behalf. "I believe in the incentives ...

WHAT ARE THE ODDS of filmmakers actually seeing their short film premiere at two international film festivals, being held the same weeks this month, at two widely separated ...

After Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle killed the state's successful film tax incentives last year, both gubernatorial candidates have made reinstating the incentives part of their camp...

WINDY CITY WEST'S PARTY Monday night in L.A. was the smash hit everyone expected from Brenda Sexton, whose Chicago-L.A. Link brought together 400 folks with Chicago connecti...

JAY SUKOW of Group Mind Films ("American Legacy") begins eight days of principal photography Oct. 31 on the company's second feature-length comedy. The new film is "Trubade...

After eight years, 11 features, a patented Exquisite Corpse collaboration model, and dozens of supported productions and workshops, nonprofit film incubator Split Pillow will sh...

What's considered junk to some may be treasures to other. Eight out of 10 people have at least one highly-collectable treasure hidden somewhere inside their home, yet few kno...