SOME POSITIVE PRODUCTION NEWS. Judging by how busy casting directors are right now, late summer spot production for the city is lookin' good. For instance, casting direc...

Tech guru Bruce Montgomery, who has taken the helm of the 2,600-member Chicago Convergence (TCC), leads a meeting Wednesday to "edit and repackage ideas" for the second annual C...

Iowa, probably known best in filmmaking circles as the location for "Field of Dreams," enhanced its film and TV incentives July 1 by offering a jaw-dropping 50% tax credit and o...

Art guru Mark Kistler ? a kids' TV star since 1986 and an inspiration to many of today's leading animators ? returns in a new HD series created and co-produced by long-time coll...

After six years of rapid growth in Washington, D.C., interactive media marketers Carousel30 selected Chicago for its first satellite office. "Despite the rough economy this y...

Following a month that was full of assignments, despite the economy, Bird's-Eye Media's Mark Anthony Besozzi will start August providing video coverage of 500 teams of wacky run...

BRUCE MONTGOMERY, a co-founder of the two-year old, ever-growing Chicago Convergence, has stepped up as president. He is CEO of Wi-Fi Technologies and executive producer and h...

Private equity firm consultant and filmmaker Yuri Rutman has launched a film investment consulting division of his production company, Noci Pictures. Chicago and L.A.-based N...

With the election last week of a union executive to lead the Illinois Production Alliance, the six-year old trade organization has signaled its intention to focus on the Illinoi...

Four hundred delegates from throughout the U.S. will convene in Chicago Aug. 6-8 for AFTRA's 62nd biennial national convention at the Hyatt Regency hotel. Delegates from 34 A...

The 100 people, mostly game developers, employed at the Midway Games studio in Logan Square are now employees of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Midway spokesman Geoffrey Mogilner s...

SCREENWRITER/FILMMAKER JAY BONANSINGA'S feature directorial debut "Stash," produced, shot and edited by Lance Catania of X-Ray Productions, is due for home video release by dis...

Golan Productions unveils its new six-camera remote production truck, customized for concerts and special events, at an open house Thursday, July 23 at their studio on the Chica...

Greg Glienna, creator of the original "Meet the Parents," shot a series of three comedy shorts last weekend for Len Austrevich's company, Either Way Works, as a "warm up" for a...

FIRST ASSIGNMENT for Towers Productions' new casting director, Becky Cattie is to find the perfect cast for Towers' "Housewives of Chicago" reality TV show, currently in dev...

With over 200 feature and TV credits spanning a three-decade career, stuntman Rick LeFevour has taken hits from, and on behalf of, stars such as Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, and Nic...

At spring training earlier this year, White Sox general manager Ken Williams and three of the players stepped up to bat to hit home positive messages aimed at kids. As soon...

James Allen Smith plans a local theatrical release for his recently completed documentary "Floored," about the final days of open air trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange....

The grand prize winner among 13 semi-finalists in the first Chicago Screenwriters Network script contest will go home with a $1,000 check, a trophy and an armload of valuable p...

DURING THEIR FOUR WHIRLWIND DAYS in L.A., a Chicago sales contingent saw 19 producers, several with possible projects for the state, says Local 476's Mark Hogan. He was acco...