While it was believed the owner of three Toronto movie studios was also the owner of an $80 million movie studio for Chicago, it turns out that a local group of investors are th...

THE DVD OF DAVIDSON COLE'S DOCUMENTARY "The 95th: The Iron Men of Metz," about General George Patton's World War II infantry division, in which Cole's grandfather Steve Finik ...

Over the 25 years Oprah has broadcast her daily talk show from Chicago, it was inevitable that one day she would move the show to Los Angeles. Apparently that day will arri...

Hollywood actor Casey Siemaszko grew up deeply immersed in Chicago's Polish community, performing with his parents' Polish dance troupe. And Siemaszko's father Konstanty fough...

"All truth passes through three stages," Ky Dickens, a producer for commercial MK Films, says in her documentary "Fish Out of Water." "First it is ridiculed. Second, it is vi...

A memorial service for Barbara Petersen, wife of Dan Moore, DGA Midwest executive director, will be held Sunday at the Luther Memorial Church, 2500 W. Wilson at 5 p.m., precede...

When Cinespace Chicago owner Nick Mirkopoulos brought property 21 years ago on Booth St. in Toronto, the timing coincided with the Canadian government's decision to make film p...

Robert Michael Huffer, the sales and customer service arm of Teletech Video, was "one of those people who brightened your day every time he walked through the door, remembered L...

WITH TIME ON HER HANDS during the SAG strike of 2000, actress Ellie Weingardt began writing a comedy screenplay about an elderly woman who adopts an elderly beagle to ease her...

More than 450 guests crowded Cutters downtown facilities for its first Halloween party, one that assuredly will become an annual event for hosts Cutters, Sol Design, Another Cou...

Chicago-based Glass City Productions is in the midst of filming its third feature, the drama "Separation Anxiety," at locations across northern Ohio, starting with a two-week sh...

Construction is underway to convert a 330,000-sq. ft warehouse into the first of what could be seven to soundstages for Chicago Film Studios, on the 50 acre Ryerson Steel campu...

"The Heart of Hollywood: The Chicago Link," taped last month at the Sweet Home Illinois party in Santa Monica, airs Sunday at 11 p.m. The half-hour show, produced by Resoluti...

First it was Venetian night that got sunk in a money-saving effort on the city's part to cut costs to shore up a $520 million budget shortfall for 2010. Now the Chicago's Ou...

Both New York state's 30% tax incentives and New York City's "Made in NY" 5% tax credit are in trouble, and added to that is a proposal to charge the largest fees in the U.S. fo...

COUNTY BOARD PRESIDENT Todd Stroger's 2010 $3 billion budget proposes no new taxes, it does include his controversial 2008 sales tax hike the highest overall sales tax in the ...

Two sets of national union/guild and production industry contracts were approved last week that allows for a smooth continuation of commercial and non-broadcast work for members...

Red Car's new managing director, Craig Duncan, arrived Monday after almost a decade in Detroit as Griot Editorial's VP/general manager, with a clear-eyed sense of the chal...

One World Productions' Michael Neumann and crew stepped back into time when they recently spent two weeks on a commercial project, with a monstrous cast of actors and recreator...

If you are part of Generation Y, a.k.a. the Millennials, the Echo Boomers and the Nintendo Generation, one of the best places for you to work is Euro RSCG Chicago. Euro was...