A dozen of the biggest makers of LED lights for film and video production will convene at Barbizon Chicago's March 5 Open House, providing Chicago image-makers with the first di...

OSCAR NOMINEE STEVE JAMES, an Oscar nominee for the seminal "Hoop Dreams," has told another compelling basketball documentary: "No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson" for ES...

While the state of TV commercial production is changing as fast as new apps are created, it remains a robust $5 billion industry, when factoring in post, talent payments and oth...

While big-budget thriller "Red," starring Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich, was shooting elsewhere in the Royal York Hotel last week, executives fr...

HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER/DIRECTOR DALLAS JENKINS is moving to the Chicago area shortly as director of creative media for northwest suburban Harvest Bible Church. "I'll be in c...

THE LATEST ILLINOIS LOTTERY COMMERCIAL, this one for the Mega Millions game, via Energy BBDO, was directed by bi-coastal MJZ's Dante Ariola and edited by Peepshow Post of New ...

Starting Feb. 26, Concentrated partners Mark Cwiakala and Jon Singer will flex their production muscles for six weeks, producing videos of some of the fittest guys to ever set f...

The next two weeks will be busy ones for Nat Dykeman. He's prepping to shoot his feature in mid-March, releasing a film on his Cinema Obscura DVD label and finalizing preparati...

While the use and value of SEO, web 2.0, CSS, et al is ho-hum knowledge to Reel readers, there are many "average Joes and Janes who don't want to be left out of current web tech...

Despite declining sponsorships and internal cuts, the second annual Chicago International Movies and Music Festival (CIMMfest) fest opens with a "special surprise screening," fe...

NEW YORK-BASED "LIVE FROM MIDTOWN" has a casting call Feb. 20 for actors, models, dancers and musicians of all ages for its variety talent competition coming to Chicago for a Ma...

Unity Studios in Allen Park, which recently graduated 106 students in the inaugural class of the Lifton Institute of Media Skills, will start production in March on a feature fi...

THE PILOT FOR "ATF" (short for the U. S. Justice Department's Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Bureau) will be the third hourlong TV drama to film on Chicago locations, starting th...

The first 3D technology to run at any Chicago trade show plays at the Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana Chevrolet Dealers Association exhibit at the Chicago Auto Show, now thr...

The Chicago White Sox is the first team in any league to utilize a realistic 3D environment of US Cellular Field to showcase sponsorships and corporate partnerships in action, c...

Chicago has a particularly strong lineup this year at the increasingly influential South by Southwest Film Festival, running March 12-20 in Austin, Texas. In the lineup are d...

Pixel Brothers is back in the game with an upcoming production of 26 half-hour episodes of "The Treasure Hunters Roadshow," thanks to a successful NATPE showing in Las Vegas. ...

That overly long Hollywood dry spell will finally end in early March, with three TV pilots getting underway, a fourth being talked about for early spring, and a Vince Vaughn fe...

It sure looks like the new syndicated "The Nate Berkus Show," from Harpo Productions/Sony Pictures Television (SPT), will be produced at Harpo's West Side studios. Although n...

MULTI-TALENTED ANDY RICHTER, Conan O'Brien's former writer and sidekick, is back atop the list of commercial directors represented by Story, now that "Late Show with Conan O'...