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...

One of Chicago's most durable industry icons will "transition" from a lifetime of operating a film business to doing what he loves most ? teaching up-and-coming filmmakers and ...

Chicago's first, non-station produced celebrity late night talk show premiered July 3 on CBS Ch. 2, with the pilot episode of "The Good Night Chicago Show." Hosted and produc...

Non Fiction Films of L.A. was the first customer to use the 3,000 sq. ft. first floor space to prep for a two day location shoot for Ford, followed by @Radical Media, also L.A....

West Michigan will bustle with filming activity this summer, says West Michigan film commissioner Rick Hert, with two indie features filming in Grand Rapids in July and August...

IPA president Lars Ullberg calls it "the incentives arms race," and Hollywood Deadline Hollywood Daily writer Nikki Finke calls it "a cutthroat biz these days." Wisconsin h...

"PUBLIC ENEMIES," with a reported $100 million-budget that provided a bank vault of welcome revenue for Illinois and Wisconsin (although unappreciated by Wisconsin Gov. Jim ...