With Vince Vaughn in town Wednesday through Friday to direct the mini-pilot for his half-hour comedy, "Firsts," the biggest pilot season ever to descend on Chicago has begun. ...

One of three PSA's selected in support of abolishing California's Prop 8 was produced by Foundation Content and is posted for voting until March 12 at hrcladinner.com/ehero/inde...

MARK HARRIS'("Holla If You Hear Me") feature drama, "The Black Butterfly," has sold out its world premiere Wednesday, March 17. Mahogany Monae stars as an aspiring Olympic swim...

Watching episodes of "LA Ink," Paul Collurafici thought "why can't we do that?" "We did 12,000 tattoos last year," says the owner of the North Side tattoo and piercing sho...

KRAFT VELVEETA CHEESE becomes a new taste sensation when microwave-melted with Rotel salsa into a chip dip that literally blows people away, in the currently airing "Blown Awa...

HUNGRY MAN of New York, famous for its creative directors and take on comedy commercials, has won the Commitment to Excellence Award for TV commercials from the 2010 Hugo Tele...

Michigan's film incentives, one of the five top movie-making states, boosted film revenues from $125 million in 2008 to an estimated $223.6 million in 2009, according to the jus...

With "Matadors" and "A.T.S." headquartering at Chicago Studio City for the duration of their pilot shoots later this month and into April, CSC owner John Crededio reopened Chica...

Anybody who has watched a young person play a video game from 20 years ago knows that the only thing that's changed more than the games are the gamers themselves. "I was a g...

Social media expert Robbie Abed is so confident about the effectiveness of his services, that he is making one of those offers you can't refuse. Until March 15, he is offer...

THE IFO'S "SHORTCUTS" CONTEST returns for the third consecutive year, to give Illinois filmmakers a showcase for their talent, "and to give the film office another tool to promo...

Curtis Jackson, a.k.a. 50 Cent, teams up with prodigious producer (57 films, seven currently in production) Randall Emmett for their fourth movie together, to be shot in Grand R...

WELCOME BACK, ROGER! It looks like Roger Ebert is returning to television with a new syndicated movie review show from Chicago, expected to be taped at WYCC/Ch. 20. Ebe...

Chicago filmmakers Jayme Joyce, a writer/producer and Jessica Christopher, cofounder of makeup/effects company Cirque De Face FX, met last year at the Sundance Film Festival an...

Midwinter Studios, financial expert Brett D. Thompson's multimedia production company, has gotten off to an auspicious start. Since its debut last August, Midwinter's inaugur...

Proving the old adage that "it never rains but it pours," Chicago is now hosting production of six television pilots, the most that has ever descended on the city in one fell sw...

After seven years in business, producer/director Charlie Stone's multimedia/video company "that's been growing under the radar in Chicago" is approaching its 500th production: a...

A couple of weeks ago, Roger Ebert took to his Twitter account to remind fans of the 11th anniversary of the death of his close friend Gene Siskel, Ebert's other half on "At th...

A new package of six cable spots for Leona's, the Chicago Italian eatery chain, taps its greatest resource for inspiration: Leona's colorful neighborhood customers. Humorous...

On a recent Friday, a harried DDB producer called Foundation Content with a rushed last minute job for H&R Block. On Saturday, Foundation's Damian Riddell directed a live peopl...