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'...

Grand Rapids has earned bragging rights to "the world's largest sound stage" as Hangar42 Studios' 450,000-sq. ft. full-service film production studio opens for business in that...

One of the changes in the new AICP/Midwest-Local 476 labor agreement is a provision that helps fund high-tech certification training programs for union personnel, in keeping wi...

PRODUCER/SCREENWRITER JIM WHITE may prove that lightning does strike twice. He just got the word that his screenplay, "Dinky Dau" (Vietnamese slang for "crazy") was selected ...

You win some, you lose some. Michigan knows, winning a new production company that plans to open a $20 million film studio in Clinton Township (90 minutes northeast of Detroit)...

It looked like tumbleweeds in the exhibit hall at last week's National Assn. of Television and Programming Executives (NATPE) held at Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas. Attendance h...

WYCC-Ch. 20 is seeking relationships with independent producers, in which WYCC can serve as the presenting station for co-productions to air on Ch. 20 and to offer the program t...

Madison filmmaker Cory J. Udler celebrates fellow DIY horror filmmakers in his documentary, "I Made My Own Damn Movie (and lived to tell about it)." After making the 2009 fe...

The lighting class of Dave Moravec of Pixel Brothers, a part-time Columbia College instructor for many years, had the distinction of inaugurating Columbia College's new $21 mill...