LA company options Gaunt’s Uptown-set crime thriller
NGN PRODUCTIONS (The Mask) of Studio City is developing the thriller feature The End of the Night
NGN PRODUCTIONS (The Mask) of Studio City is developing the thriller feature The End of the Night
For a few nervous weeks, it looked like Michigan’s $50 million in film incentives would be chopped down,
LEO BURNETT WORLDWIDE was not only the “Agency of the Year” at the International Advertising Awards in New York earlier this month, but it won a record 35 awards, including
“SUPERMAN: MAN OF STEEL” lands in Chicago in early summer for a reported 12 weeks of prep and 12 weeks of filming. The Warner Bros. blockbuster-budgeted adventure/fantasy stars handsome, young Brit
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
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
JOYCE KILBURG, the Illinois Film Office’s diversity officer, was seriously injured Wednesday night when the taxi she was riding crashed into a tree. She was heading home
NOT EVERYONE gets the pleasure and satisfaction of working with their mother, but Oscar winner Virginia Madsen teamed up with her filmmaker mom, Elaine
SOME POSITIVE PRODUCTION NEWS. Judging by how busy casting directors are right now, late summer spot production for the city is lookin’ good.
With over 200 feature and TV credits spanning a three-decade career, stuntman Rick LeFevour has taken hits from, and on behalf of, stars such as Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, and
Writer/producer Paul Traynor’s “Witches Night,” in HD, is a throwback to the ?70s horror classics, premieres July 18 at the Wilmette theatre, coinciding with its DVD release by Rivercoast
ACTOR DAVID PASQUESI’S TV SERIES, “Factory,” will bow June 29 on Spike TV, but Pasquesi may not see the premiere episode.
He is filming
WE HEAR … and this is only a rumor, hearsay, unconfirmed talk and all that — BUT it’s being bruited about that Springfield might
Forget those gloomy economic reports, at least for a while, as the Chicago film industry looks forward to upbeat and expansive business in 2008 ? strikes notwithstanding.
ACTOR MATT DILLON will portray Leonard Chess, the legendary founder of the South Side Chicago blues label Chess Records, in Sony/BMG Film’s “Cadillac Records.”
Among the Illinois facts that surprised guests at the IFO Producers Breakfast in L.A. last week was the availability of a four-lane, 2.9 mile, virtually unused strip of highway in
DIRECTOR ROBERT TOWNSEND will be among the esteemed group of industry professionals celebrating IFP’s first Independent Film Gala, Sept. 28 at Salvage One. All
DIRECTOR KEVIN SMITH of Backyard Productions of L.A. and Chicago departs from his role of directing commercials to helm a 20-minute short titled “Bubblerama” around town this week. Leigh
“THE DARK KNIGHT” the latest “Batman” installment will forever be known as “one of the biggest features we’ve ever had in terms of scope, spending and
If feature film production alone continues through the end of the year, 2007 could shape up as a $90-$100 million year, according to early projections.