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...

It looks like the 385,000-sq. ft. Michigan Motion Picture Studios -- the former GM Pontiac plant -- is finally coming to life. County officials have stated the sale for the pr...

A rapidly growing number of big social media and educational video projects has led Pure Imagination, a full-service Batavia-based advertising agency, to seek additional staff. ...

IT'S OFFICIAL! The Fox Network has greenlighted four pilots for series to air this fall including Chicago-set "Ride-Along," that filmed here last winter. It follows a rogue cow...

Almost a year after he started renting cameras in Logan Square, cinematographer Lawrence Daufenbach has expanded his business into a West Loop storefront at 1111 W. Randolph, an...

Chicago may get back in the talk show business, almost one year after the Jerry Springer and Steve Wilkos' shows departed for Connecticut. And Springer's former executive produ...

IT TOOK MORE THAN FOUR DAYS for the crew from Boston-based Joseph Finn & Co. auctioneers to organize and tag all the hundreds items owned by Film & Tape Works that will be aucti...

"For kids trying to get something out there and get noticed," producer Brad Kozie has launched Fine Line Sports Media as a sister company to his Fine Line Productions, a Lake Zu...

Tonight's the night that Zacuto's "Great Camera Shootout 2010," comparing HD DSLR cameras to traditional 35mm, will be seen publicly for the first time at the Midwest Internati...

ESA? MEL?NDEZ' TIMELY DOC, "Immigrant Nation!?The Battle for the Dream" won the audience choice award for best documentary at the Chicago Latino Film Festival, which concluded l...

Some 200 guests are expected Thursday night at Hootenanny's benefit in its spacious River North facility on behalf of Free Spirit Media Focus 2010. The fund-raiser will hel...

"You win some, you lose some" is a philosophy equally applicable to Chicago advertising as it is the city's sports teams. Consider: The little-known Jones Agency in 2007 came...

The pilot for what 20 West Productions hopes will become its second cable series that premiered May 5 on Discovery Health, as part of the network's "Psych Week." The documen...

Plum Productions is converting a 104-year old Edgewater firehouse into the shooting stage and post-production facility Firehouse Studios, which they'll market for rental as wel...

Some years ago, spot editor Yamus (real name Jim Mudra) was working on a PSA spot. The footage involved many children and atmospheres, related his friend and colleague Red Car ...

Filmworkers Club's two four-year old affiliates -- hybrid production studio Vitamin and Lift Motion graphics -- are now one, having been merged under the Vitamin banner and the...

Starting July 4 and filming for seven weeks, director Michael Bay's "Transformers 3" will shoot in Chicago, which along with Moscow, will be "the focus of the big action sequenc...

Headlining IFC/Chicago's Producers Series May 1-2 is Philadelphia filmmaker Lance Weiler, an innovator in, and advocate of transmedia, an extension of storytelling across multip...