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. ...

NextWave,Inc. a new business incubator, has opened its doors and by most definitions, would provide steady cultivation of budding start-ups. But NextWave is taking things to a...

WOMEN IN FILM has made a righteous choice to honor broadcast trailblazer, talk show host, news anchor and community activist Merri Dee as its 2010 Focus Award honoree. ...

The City of Allen Park has hired S3 Entertainment Group to operate and manage the city's burgeoning film center. The company will begin overseeing operations immediately. J...

When Bob Hercules and his two partners started Media Process Group (MPG), in July, 1985 in a small Wicker Park loft, they took part-time teaching jobs at Columbia College to sup...

LIVE COVERAGE of Round One of Sears Chef Challenge Event in search of the next rising culinary stars will be produced July 31 by marketing agency Pure Entertainment of Batavia. ...

Veteran producer Fred Blurton has seen the future of stereoscopic 3D and it is an exciting, lightweight, compact Panasonic camera that, he says "is going to open S-3D to the wor...

Kitty Kelly's unauthorized biography of Oprah will be turned into a TV movie biopic or miniseries to air in September, 2011, coinciding with Oprah's departure from her daytime t...

What started out as a generous, from-the-heart gesture in 1995, to help the family of an editor who died suddenly, has become one of the summer's most anticipated events. The...

Robert DeNiro in Chicago this fall? Possibly, since Tribeca Enterprises of New York, partner in Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy of Chicago, will be IFP/Chicago's honoree ...

Floyd Webb was an 11-year-old aspiring martial artist when he first met John "Count Dante" Keehan at the first World Karate Tournament that Keehan organized at the Chicago Colis...

RICHARD YELLAND of Dictionary Films, produced a 22-minute documentary "Floating: The Nathan Gocke Story." It details Gocke's 2008 surfing accident that left him paralyzed from t...

Musician Joe Losurdo is producing his first narrative feature, which offers a different take to the one he portrayed in his 2009 documentary, "You Weren't There: A History of C...

ONE AT OPTIMUS for the fourth year is the official partner of the Pitchfork Music Festival, showcasing more than 40 of the best independent bands and artists at Union Park Jul...

STEVEN SODERBERGH is making Chicago one of the dozen globe-spanning locations in his upcoming 3D action-thriller, "Contagion." What looks to be a blockbuster starts filming i...