Nicholas J. Michalak's "P.I. Dangerous," which will start shooting in Chicago this month, is the third of a trio of dark, brooding crime films that he will complete this year. ...

Louisiana's legislature turbocharged film incentives this year by raising the tax credit to 30%, after it had been scheduled to drop from 25% to 15% by 2012 and killing its suns...

Roger Ebert will make a special guest appearance at the closing ceremonies of the Naperville Film Festival, one of ten film festivals being held in Chicago and Downstate this mo...

The Cramer-Krasselt duo of copywriter Andrei Chahine and art director Ryan Stotts are the winners of Optimus' second annual "One Shot" contest. The script's subject, non-pr...

Leo Burnett, the agency whose signature was big bowls of apples that greeted guests, has hired a Big Apple creative star and modern Peggy Olsen story as its chief creative offi...

"September:The Chicago Convergence Month" offers the riches of many industr-related events to TCC's 2,600 members, as a scaled-down Summit originally planned for Sept. 21-23. ...

For the Chicago Creative Club Awards "No Show" Sept. 10, the awards committee wants everyone in the advertising/production business to be part of the "celebration of great Chic...

Don't laugh, but spot business may be as accurate an economic indicator as any on Wall Street, just maybe not as scientific. Consider: In recessionary times, corporations sh...

When the historic Portage Theater on the Northwest Side reopened in 2006, attracting independent filmmakers was an important goal of the revitalization, says Dennis Wolkowicz, m...

COMMERCIALS RULE this month, as a slew of bicoastal production companies are here or en route to shoot national spots on city streets with local crews and equipment. Th...

A year shy of Media Process Group's 25th anniversary, founder Bob Hercules credits his 1989 indie documentary "America's Classic Ballparks" with knocking the MPG success story ...

The celebrity-studded Windy City West party -- a reunion for Chicagoans working in Hollywood -- returns after a four-year absence and Brenda Sexton is again helming the sold-out...

At the 2009 World Tour of New York Festivals Advertising Awards in Chicago last month, Leo Burnett won an impressive 10 World Medals at a gala presentation at the Cultural Cente...

Thanks to a local connection, director John Anderson spent a week in July shooting for Disney English in Shanghai, where the company established its first English-language instr...

"If you're only going to see one film this year, make it ?Bronx Paradise,' by Wayne Gurman," enthuses Geoff Harkness, of the first annual International Hip Hop Film Festival Sep...

ACTOR/PRODUCER TIRF ALEXIUS has expanded his four-year old Driven Entertainment by opening a 1,100-sq. ft. voiceover, music and ADR recording studio in Albany Park. The D...

If you are spending all of your time, money and energy trying to support your old model, you are not investing proper resources into what form your future model might take. ...

Fearful that legislators will cap or kill Michigan's 42% incentives, about 100 film industry workers rallied at the capitol in Lansing Aug. 18, petitioning legislators to keep t...

Cinematographer and Local 600 member, Lawrence Daufenbach, is possibly the youngest owner of an affordable camera rental company which has the hot Red camera as its main focus. ...

DOCUMENTARIAN KEN BURNS comes to Chicago Sept. 16 to speak at a luncheon and presentation for his new book, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," at the Union League Club...