Fox TV's cop/crime "Ride-Along" series, now shooting here for the next three months, is one of the first network TV shows to utilize Fletcher Camera's new, hot Arri Alexa, Arri...

Wearing his iconic red golf shirt and a big Irish smile, Optimus president Tom Duff on Friday will greet from 1,000 to 3,000 guests at Optimus' 15th Block Party The party, h...

New York editor Michael Coletta exchanges the Mad Ave scene for Michigan Ave - more accurately East Illinois St. -- when he returns home Aug. 16 after a nine-year absence. ...

Most marketing people are either so BlackBuried or lost in the C-suite that they miss key developments in industry jargon. Thankfully, Cramer-Krasselt is ready to loop you back ...

Kartemquin Films will become the first documentary company to receive the Newberry Library's 25-year-old Altgeld Freedom of Speech Award at a ceremony July 31. "Kartemquin h...

Mark Androw says he usually doesn't speculate about how business will shape up in the future. "But this year is different," states the AICP Midwest Chapter president and STORY ...

THE ACTION COMEDY, "30 Minutes or Less," which started shooting in Grand Rapids last week through October, is said to be the biggest movie project ever shot in the area, acco...

DAILY VIDEO UPLOADS and blogs document Young & Rubicam/Chicago's "Craftsman Across America" promotion, featuring "one man, one mower and 3,300 miles," as Lucas Van Engen rides...

New design-driven 3D animation studio Leviathan moved into a West Loop building being rehabbed while new windows were still being hoisted into place, and worked late over the we...

Over the years it was bound to happen, as states like New Mexico, Louisiana and more recently Michigan enticed Hollywood producers to their states with ever more lucrative tax a...

After many successful years of running a corporate video company, MindSight partners Jack Liga and Dan Niccolai hit a series of business problems. No sooner did they emerge fr...

IN THE MIDDLE EAST for three weeks is documentarian Malachi Leopold of Left Brain/Right Brain Productions. He is visiting Israel, the West Bank and Gaza as part of a delega...

Bruce Willis, who has defended hostages in "Die Hard" and bartended bar at Manhattan's Kamikaze while attempting to break into New York theatre. Now in Chicago Aug. 11, the act...

Actor/rapper Common will open the Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video on opening night, Aug. 6, when he receives the Deloris Jordan Award for Community Leader...

When DP Michael Neumann of One World Production spent three days shooting Ron Howard for an "Iconoclasts" episode, he found the veteran director "so brilliant about film that I ...

JON SISKEL AND GREG JACOBS' award-winning feature doc, "Louder Than a Bomb," was selected to screen for a week July 30-Aug. 5 at the International Documentary Association's 14th...

When Oprah packs up and moves to L.A. next year, her talk show replacement won't be another syndicated show. Instead, it will be a brand new, live, local morning show with a ...

Little known fact: Chicago Recording Company, the mainstay of Chicago's audio recording business for 30 years, is the country's largest independent recording company in terms of...

Mysterious John Locke of ABC's "Lost," i.e. Emmy winner Terry O'Quinn, can be found at the Park West July 31, as the special guest at a benefit for his brother's first independ...

Chicago is a city teeming with comedy talent (you have to have a sense of humor to live here) and no where is it more explicit in films than the Chicago Comedy Shorts Festival. ...