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...

JOHN BOROWSKI shoots reenactments this June for his documentary "Carl Panzram" about the early 20th Century serial killer. "Carl Panzram" surveys the childhood abuse Panzra...

A $10,000 grant awarded at South by Southwest is enabling Chicago troupe Lady Parts Comedy to produce their first formal online series. "Up until now we've been operating o...

Brandon Hutchinson took the mid-aughts boom of DIY relationship dramas as a personal challenge in crafting his own debut feature, "How I Killed Mumblecore," which has its theatr...

With a slew of unproduced screenplays and an unpublished novel under her belt, Northwestern professor Kat Falls' first published novel, the teen sci-fi "Dark Life," landed a big...

Eight interesting and offbeat docs and shorts by area filmmakers will screen at Evanston's Talking Pictures Festival, May 6-9, as part of its 23 programs of long and short films...

After a comparatively quiet first quarter, Michigan is looking forward to a tremendous amount of spring and summer activity.It gets off to a high octane start April 18 in Detroi...

After 19 years at the Chicago Film Office -- a tenure five years longer than CFO director Rich Moskal's -- Kathy Byrne leaves for a new job. She joins AFTRA/SAG May 17 as t...

PILOT UPDATES. Networks this week began screening and evaluating 68 pilots that were shot during the first quarter for possible prime-time fall series slots. Here's the rea...

Noted entertainment attorneys, Tom Leavens, Peter Strand and Jerry Glover, also noted for their contributions to non-profit arts organizations, have formed a LaSalle St. law fi...

It's an understatement to say that it was Chicago's night at the 2010 Hugo International Awards for Television Excellence. DDB, Draftfcb and Leo Burnett didn't just win bi...

AUDITIONS START IN MAY for Michael Curtis Johnson's debut feature, the $40,000 coming-of-age drama "Savage Youth." He plans to shoot in and around his hometown of Joliet this Au...

The Tuesday, May 18 auction of Film & Tape Works will include the auctioning one of the 30-year old company's most important asset: its client list. Inspection of the equipm...

A short film examining the issues of free speech while chronicling a veteran's protest to a flag hung upside down, won the grand prize in the 2010 Illinois Humanities Council's ...

Director David J. Miller's "for mature audiences" webisode series, "Assisted Living," has reached a major milestone with the Tuesday airing of the show's 40th episode and a Seas...

Early last April, Malachi Leopold of Left Brain/Right Brain Productions departed for the Sudan to shoot a short documentary about the reunion of Kuek Garang, one of 27,000 "lost...

Young, aspiring agency creatives get a golden opportunity to show their stuff to a Who's Who of Chicago advertising creative executives and recruiters at Portfolio Night 8 (PN8)...

EQUIPMENT SALES PRO PETE DEBENNY and four other former Midwest Media Group salesmen moved to Burbank, California-based VTP, Inc., to expand the 30-year old reseller into fer...

Director Mark Klein's thriving tabletop company, MK Films, is the latest local production house to become a signatory of Studio Mechanics Local 476. The agreement was signed...