With an avalanche of entries for the first time in a decade and 256 nominations in 57 categories ? not to mention the hundreds of individuals connected with the nominations - t...

Detroit-area producer Bob Brown is pitching a slate of scripted and unscripted TV series to networks that would be produced in Michigan. "The television business is consisten...

If the Cubs win the World Series, the production team of Jon Siskel and Greg Jacobs could win more than $1,000 pledged to a website that would help fund their latest feature doc...

Over the last year, casting director Jennifer Rudnicke estimates that her company, Tenner, Paskal, Rudnicke, has placed about 200 local actors on the big and little screen, in T...

FLASHPOINT ACADEMY named former agency producer Linda Wolfe director of student placement, a new position, announced Flashpoint president/CEO Howard Tullman. Her mi...

"SATANIC PANIC," Marc Selz' documentary-style horror feature, won't make it into the theatres for Halloween, but it will have a world premiere Nov. 28 at the Westin Chicago Nor...

The brave new technology world that fractured old models has created numerous new ways to break old boundaries in doing business in the visual media industry today. One of th...

Sedgwick Productions is finishing its third in a series of Northwestern University documentaries for the Big Ten Network, with the working title "Nanotechnology." The doc foc...

FILM MICHIGAN: TRAINING EXPANDS. More than 60 students are taking the 2-week Basic Film Training Program at the Henry Ford Community College in Wayne County, now through Oct....

The winning of Bud Light/DDB's "Swear Jar" as "Outstanding Commercial" at the 60th Creative Arts Emmy Awards dispensed Sept. 14 at the Nokia theatre in L.A. was particularly a h...

Life is a Dream Productions has moved on to the next phase in the four-year odyssey to bring its existential drama, "Gray in White & Black," to the big screen. "Money" was th...

Getting Midwestern voices heard by the Hollywood studio system is the goal of the Chicago Screenwriters Network's first script contest, with a call for entries Oct. 31-Dec. 31. ...

The best of Chicago's advertising is apparently created by a handful of major ad agencies, if the number of prizes they won at the recent Creative Club Awards is any indication....

FILM CRITIC JEFFREY LYONS of "At the Movies" talks about Hollywood's power to change perceptions about growing older Sept. 21 at the 14th Silver Images Film Festival at the B...

The promise of a 30% tax incentive in place for three years was made Monday night by the three state legislative sponsors of the Illinois filmmakers' tax incentives, at an IPA p...

Pending the end of the hurricane season, Michael Neumann's One World Productions is gearing up to shoot three spots for Miami agency Tinsley Advertising. Director/DP Neumann ...

Rep Yo City is doing just that ? showcasing a roster of hip hop and R&B artists and models who represent talent in six large urban areas, through a variety of cross-platforms. ...

When Mindy Verson learned that pop sensation Backstreet Boys were going to perform at Ravinia in late August, she picked up the phone and called her old friend, their manager. ...

137 Film's "The Atom Smashers" is the opening night film of Sept. 19-20 Science Chicago, "the world's largest science festival," at the Museum of Science and Industry. The do...

More than 2,000 guests are expected to descend on historic Franklin, Indiana, a three-hour drive from Chicago, Sept. 26-28, as the town hosts over 110 films, 20 educational semi...