Michigan film spending jumped to $214 million in 2009. More than 130 applications for movie and TV show projects were approved for the incentives, and 84 projects finished fil...

The state of Hawaii laid off most of its film office employees, to an outcry from film industry executives and artists who warned that Hawaii may miss out on some lucrative Holl...

Chicago's only major representation at the Slamdance Film Festival will open the 15th annual alternative to Sundance Jan. 22 in Park City, Utah, with a Jan. 27 encore screening....

CHICAGOANS HEADING FOR SUNDANCE will find a haven in Park City, Utah at the snazzy Jan. 23 cocktail party hosted on behalf of Columbia College by Denis Healy, Brenda Sexton a...

LOCAL 476'S ELECTION OF OFFICERS retained Mark Hogan as business agent of the 800-member union for a second term, and voted in three new officers, president Tom Glynn, wh...

JOE LYONS' dramatic short script, "Salvaging," won the 2010 IFP/Production Fund Grant out of "an unprecedented number of finalists," said Production Fund co-chair Laurel Ward. ...

Media Process Group moved into its West Loop facility in 2005 in part to be closer to Harpo Studios, which is just a few blocks east of MPG on Washington Boulevard. But eve...

Steppenwolf Films is the producing entity for "The Last Rites of Joe May," a low budget indie starring home boy Dennis Farina that wrapped Dec. 19 after a four-weeks of shooting...

The partners of Chicago's first hybrid digital media company, Utopic, officially opening for business Jan. 4 in River West, are perched on the crest of the first major transform...

Veteran photographer and commercial director Dennis Manarchy plans a sweeping multimedia series of super-large-format portraits. It will span all 50 states and lead to a travel...

Come mid-January, John McGrath will be living the life that many of us can only dream about -- free from responsibilities and free to do the things he's always wanted to do. ...

THE SUPER SECRETIVE WACHOWSKIS may be ramping up their next movie, with Huffington Post publisher and politico Ariana Huffington, of all people, involved in it. Photos she p...

Evening news anchor Cheryl Burton and morning anchor Hosea Sanders host the Dec. 19 debut episode of "Heart & Soul," Ch. 7's quarterly series profiling cultural figures in Chica...

MIGUEL SILVEIRA of Pangea Media Productions screened a preview of his IFP/Chicago Production Fund-wining short "Rooftop Wars" at the IFP Holiday Party last Thursday. Set o...

Newly formed 20 West Productions will start the New Year off with the proverbial bang, as the TV documentary company's first new series, "The Squeeze," about local law enforce...

HYBRID PRODUCTION STUDIO VITAMIN worked with award-winning spot director Bob Carmichael to create "The Story" music video for Maroon 5, using hundreds of stills shot by Carmi...

Director/producer Jenna Maria Constantine's $350,000 feature "A Sicilian Odyssey," the fictional journey of a young American writer uncovering her mother's deepest secret, is al...

The Illinois Humanities Council is seeking entries for its second annual "Looking for Democracy: How to Make It, How to Sustain It" short film/video contest. The grand prize ...

"ER" executive producer John Wells is returning to Chicago Jan. 13 to shoot scenes for the pilot for his new Showtime series, "Shameless," starring William H. Macy. Like "ER,...

CH. 11 PREMIERES two other excellent Chicago-made shows two days apart -- Dec. 17 for the doc, "Raising the Barre: The Homer Bryant Story," and Dec. 19 for Mike Houlihan's indi...