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...

COMEDIAN TOM DREESEN will MC the Oct. 27 invitation-only NBC premiere of the TV special shot by Resolution Digital Studios at the recent Sweet Home Illinois party, hosted by B...

The Brazilian city has formed a new film commission, hired a longtime movie industry pro to head it and set an ambitious first goal: landing the next Woody Allen flick by dangli...

One of Chicago's claims to Oscar fame is the fact that the golden statuettes are made here. But a lesser-known Oscar connection is that the Chicago International Children's Fil...

Thieves broke into the van of Saint Motel while the emerging indie-pop band from L.A. was taping an in-studio performance at JBTV, during their three week tour of the U.S. ...

THE PANAMERA, Porsche's first four-seat sports car, is being introduced this month with a "Welcome to the Family" campaign from Cramer-Krasselt/Chicago, which includes TV, webs...

Halloween and Atomic Pictures' annual party, to be held Oct. 31, go together like Freddy Kruger and Elm Street. What started 24 years ago as a fun, costume Halloween party ...

When producer Laura Szymber met writer/director Brad DeMarea at a coffee shop a year ago to read the script he wanted to make, she was immediately sold on it. "I felt his writin...

A band of brothers, allied as Wensel/Mitten Productions, are producing their third multi-layered documentary on hunting whitetail deer with bows and arrows in the wilds of Manit...