The 30th DGA Best Commercial Director Awards for 2009 has named five internationally acclaimed directors -- with MJZ's earning its seventh multiple nominations in eight years. ...

VINCE VAUGHN will team up with director Ron Howard for the first time this spring on an untitled comedy about infidelity. Vaughn always can be counted on to boost Chicago a...

Milwaukee digital marketing firm Fullhouse Interactive will expand its Chicago presence mid-month, as client MillerCoors rolls out a Super Bowl mobile game that Fullhouse develo...

DP IAN ISSITT of New Bound Media and producer/director Angela Snow of Chicago/L.A.-based To the Moon Productions, are shooting a documentary following circus acts that will co...

Sundance and CineVegas programmer Mike Plante bought lunch one day for a filmmaker friend. "Instead of owing me lunch, why not make a film for that same money?" Plante writes i...

IN TWO SPOTS for Advocate Lutheran General/Hoffman York, Milwaukee, Robert von Bjal, placed live action performances into a virtual set, comprised of synthetic lighting and pro...

Simage Network has ambitious plans for the year ahead and is seeking new ideas to be part of them. "We are taking pitches for original programming, just on a micro scale,"...

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...