In a clever bit of satirical casting, the role of a George Romero-like horrormeister in "The Art of Pain" is portrayed by Lloyd Kaufman, president of New York-based Troma Enter...
Michelle DeLong's "clan" is one of many companies that's changing spaces during Chicago's traditional moving month of May. On May 31 the three affiliated companies will p...
Fulton Street Media celebrates its first anniversary this month by producing an informative web video for CB2, Crate & Barrell's modern-chic sister company, and wrapping up one...
OPTIMUS' PARTY Thursday for 500 invited clients to introduce two new facility features, was one of the most elegant business-sponsored events in recent memory ? and Optimus' f...
History repeats itself, as Chicago Film Archives proves with its May 16 presentation of the sights and sounds of the turbulent week of the 1968 Democratic National Convention i...
Within a year of finishing school, three Columbia College graduates are getting a taste of the big time as they work as Production Car department assistants on Michael Mann's $...
Janet Lockwood, Michigan's feisty film office director ? who has the distinction of being the longest serving film office director of any state ? dismissed the report that she b...
Five hundred-plus Michigan excited filmmakers packed Grace & Wild's Stage A in Bloomfield Hills to hear leaders explain details of Michigan's tax incentives that are rocketi...
Actor Jim Halas did something quite amazing. On his own initiative, he picked up the phone and dialed 312/814-2121 -- that's the number for Gov. Blagojevich's Chicago office...
ANDREA WASSEL IS MOVING UP in the screenwriting contest world. The former agency producer's comedy script, "Leftovers," climbed to another level closer to the top in the Ame...
National AFTRA and non-broadcast producers reached an agreement for an 18-month extension to the contract that covers on-camera/voiceover for business videos and new media-dist...
After more than two decades in the Chicago area, Sony Itasca is calling it quits and closing forever what had once been its sole equipment purchase and service operation betwee...
Megan Vidis, deputy director of the Illinois Film Office, will leave in mid-May for a position outside of the film industry, for the first time in her career. Starting June...
I didn't go to NAB 2008 in Las Vegas this year for the first time in many years. It now seems like I wasn't the only one to stay at home and follow the biggest show in broa...
While DePaul University refuses to discuss the reasons behind the recent firing of two popular teachers in the Digital Cinema (DC) program, current DC students are going on the...
Google features Pixel Brothers as one of the first companies in its new "Google Success Story," its new division to create TV ads for advertisers, using the same interface us...
SIX NEW HD SPOTS returns the LaSalle St. law of Cochran & Montgomery to TV advertising for the first time since the death in 2004 of Johnny Cochran of O.J. Simpson trial fame. ...
A RARE AND PERFECT CHOICE are Chicago natives Virgina Madsen and her brother, Michael Madsen to MC the SAG Foundation's 75th Anniversary Gala Celebration and Benefit. ...
Screenwriter, director, playwright and DePaul University Theatre School alum Zach Helm ("Stranger than Fiction," "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium") returned to Chicago to be hon...
Global Video has invested $500,000-plus in developing The Virtual Tape Room (VTR Express) that prints to any videotape and optical media format from a file sent to its special ...
