With Stanley Cup fever at a high pitch, The Daily Planet is secretively producing an update of "Hit the Ice," the pre-game video that plays on the United Center's Jumbotron to j...

"HANNAH FREE," director Wendy Jo Carlton's feature adapted by Claudia Allen from Allen's play, is out on DVD June 1 from Wolf Releasing. Sharon Gless ("Cagney and Lacey") stars...

Lars Ullberg's Applied Creative Training (ACT) brought together an A-list team to produce two 30-second spots for Brookfield Zoo's new 7.5-acre "Great Bear Wilderness," the larg...

Catching up with Misty Tosh is always a lot of fun as you never know where in the world (literally) the peripatetic producer might turn up these days. Tosh's current gig as ...

HERE'S WHERE ALL THE MONEY WENT. Remember our outrage about a year ago when the Chicago 2016 Olympic went on a shooting spree to make visual presentations to the International...

Hollywood horror phenom Elissa Dowling, along with VH1's reality series "Scream Queens" Lindsay Felton and Jessica Palette, are scheduled to film in Rockford June 8-18 as stars ...

Foundation has taken another leap forward in providing creative services and digital production with the formation of a new fully integrated motion graphics division headed by c...

Since 2003, Elizabeth Coffman and Ted Hardin of Long Distance Productions have been accompanying swamp poet Martha Serpas on visits to the Mississippi Delta, documenting disappe...

If Unity Studios is evicted from the Allen Park Studio complex for not paying its rent, it's unclear whether the property will remain a film studio. Allen Park Mayor Gary Bur...

DAN ABBATE'S GORILLA TANGO THEATER is launching Gorilla Tango TV, a series of shorts up to five minutes in length for the web and for a live event and screening on July 15. The...

Filmmaker, playwright and theater director Stephen Cone returns to his native South Carolina this July to make his semiautobiographical third feature, "The Wise Kids." The so...

A year after its successful web series "Sexperts," the Columbia College TV department's Internet and Mobile TV concentration launched its second web series, "The Rent," on May 1...

A funny thing happened to Bert Haas on the way to Zanies ? The club chain's executive VP decided that it was time for local comics to stand up and flex their comedy chops to...

Christian TV producer Total Living Network, which sold its Aurora studio complex in a leaseback deal last December, is aggressively retooling for a transition to producing short...

THE AICE CHICAGO'S BEST AWARD went to Optimus' Craig Lewandowski for a spot for Cricket Wireless from Element 79, at the gala national AICE Awards Show held Thursday night at th...

Media makers, who are pushing the boundaries of commercial, narrative, and documentary production, encouraged a recent IFP 2010 Producers Series audience to explore opportunitie...

New York-based Vladar Company is coming to Chicago this June to shoot a 90-minute documentary about Chicago rapper Twista. "I am looking forward to shooting in Chicago and...

Before he wrote "The Merry Gentleman," Ron Lazzeretti wrote and directed four 20-minute films that always he had in mind to marry them with a thematic thread that links them tog...

Combine the power of Facebook with the irresistible appeal of appearing on a national TV show and whaddaya get? How about 1,200 kids from 36 states responding to the Facebook...

When producer John Bernin met Chuck Harrison, the pioneer industrial designer who created some of Sears' greatest success products, at an Evanston caf? a few years ago, "I reali...