The foundation grant that helped allow Steve James to produce "Hoop Dreams" 20 years ago is back on board with a sizeable grant to Kartemquin Films for completion of James' late...

When Foundation Content's Samantha Hart said the company was expanding its Los Angeles operation she was understating the undertaking. The Streeterville production/post house...

Rep Liz Laine's reputation preceded her when she received a call out of the blue from Scott Dikkers, the multi-talented filmmaker, director, cartoonist, most famously associated...

EDUARDO LETAMENDI AND ARMANDO HERNANDEZ are two of the 12 feature filmmaking fellows attending the 2010 NALIP Latino Producers Academy in Santa Fe, New Mexico through Aug. 20. ...

Midway Films, the team behind the 2007 Slamdance-selected meta-noir "Crime Fiction," are back with the caper movie "Mulligan," shooting in Chicago and Lake Geneva now through Au...

Professional musician Daniel Pritzker has written and directed "Louis," a black-and-white silent film with a live musical performance that starts its five-city tour in Chicago A...

Over the past few weeks, Nick Sanabria has been moving gear and furnishings out of his Radio City Recording and Audio studio at 445 E. Ohio Street in preparation of closing Sep...

A MULTIMEDIA WHIRLPOOL PROJECT for Leo Burnett turned out to be STORY'S biggest job in terms of duration ?- 17 days of shooting stills and motion for the appliance manufacture...

Chicago will get its first home-grown, independent PBS TV series in 30 years ? a kids' series at that ? when the "Jr. Cuisine Cooking Show" premieres Aug. 28 on PBS outlet, WYCC...

West Michigan continues to attract non-stop production ? commercial shots as well as the flow of feature films. The area's shores, scenery and familiar landmarks were front a...

WHAT AN UNEXPECTEDLY NICE GESTURE. In surely what's got to be a first in the 35-year annals of Hollywood-in-Chicago entertainment production, departing director Ron Howard, ...

There's always a first time for everything, and this was my first experience with a shocking and vicious virus invasion that crashed my computer and brought work on the Reel to...

100 GOLFERS from the postproduction industry have signed up to participate in the 15th annual Hummel golf, outing, Monday, Aug. 9 at the Wilmette Golf Club. "That's a good tu...

KEVIN COOPER'S 3D dog comedy, "Shakey," which starts shooting this month in the western suburbs, signed lead actors Steve Guttenberg ("Police Academy"), Beverly D'Angelo of the ...

GROSSMAN & JACK TALENT, the popular agency owned by veteran agents Mickey Grossman and Linda Jack, are now settled into their more comfortably configured new offices at 33 ...

With seven features currently in production, seven more upcoming and 16 films wrapped this year, the Michigan Film Office expects 2010 to be a booming film production year. ...

All at once, three local TV stations are developing new, local, live original programming with studio audiences to fill the spaces vacated earlier by Jerry Springer and the upco...

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. ...