IT'S OFFICIAL! The Fox Network has greenlighted four pilots for series to air this fall including Chicago-set "Ride-Along," that filmed here last winter. It follows a rogue cow...

Almost a year after he started renting cameras in Logan Square, cinematographer Lawrence Daufenbach has expanded his business into a West Loop storefront at 1111 W. Randolph, an...

Chicago may get back in the talk show business, almost one year after the Jerry Springer and Steve Wilkos' shows departed for Connecticut. And Springer's former executive produ...

IT TOOK MORE THAN FOUR DAYS for the crew from Boston-based Joseph Finn & Co. auctioneers to organize and tag all the hundreds items owned by Film & Tape Works that will be aucti...

"For kids trying to get something out there and get noticed," producer Brad Kozie has launched Fine Line Sports Media as a sister company to his Fine Line Productions, a Lake Zu...

Tonight's the night that Zacuto's "Great Camera Shootout 2010," comparing HD DSLR cameras to traditional 35mm, will be seen publicly for the first time at the Midwest Internati...

ESA? MEL?NDEZ' TIMELY DOC, "Immigrant Nation!?The Battle for the Dream" won the audience choice award for best documentary at the Chicago Latino Film Festival, which concluded l...

Some 200 guests are expected Thursday night at Hootenanny's benefit in its spacious River North facility on behalf of Free Spirit Media Focus 2010. The fund-raiser will hel...

"You win some, you lose some" is a philosophy equally applicable to Chicago advertising as it is the city's sports teams. Consider: The little-known Jones Agency in 2007 came...

The pilot for what 20 West Productions hopes will become its second cable series that premiered May 5 on Discovery Health, as part of the network's "Psych Week." The documen...

Plum Productions is converting a 104-year old Edgewater firehouse into the shooting stage and post-production facility Firehouse Studios, which they'll market for rental as wel...

Some years ago, spot editor Yamus (real name Jim Mudra) was working on a PSA spot. The footage involved many children and atmospheres, related his friend and colleague Red Car ...

Filmworkers Club's two four-year old affiliates -- hybrid production studio Vitamin and Lift Motion graphics -- are now one, having been merged under the Vitamin banner and the...

Starting July 4 and filming for seven weeks, director Michael Bay's "Transformers 3" will shoot in Chicago, which along with Moscow, will be "the focus of the big action sequenc...

Headlining IFC/Chicago's Producers Series May 1-2 is Philadelphia filmmaker Lance Weiler, an innovator in, and advocate of transmedia, an extension of storytelling across multip...

JOHN BOROWSKI shoots reenactments this June for his documentary "Carl Panzram" about the early 20th Century serial killer. "Carl Panzram" surveys the childhood abuse Panzra...

A $10,000 grant awarded at South by Southwest is enabling Chicago troupe Lady Parts Comedy to produce their first formal online series. "Up until now we've been operating o...

Brandon Hutchinson took the mid-aughts boom of DIY relationship dramas as a personal challenge in crafting his own debut feature, "How I Killed Mumblecore," which has its theatr...

With a slew of unproduced screenplays and an unpublished novel under her belt, Northwestern professor Kat Falls' first published novel, the teen sci-fi "Dark Life," landed a big...

Eight interesting and offbeat docs and shorts by area filmmakers will screen at Evanston's Talking Pictures Festival, May 6-9, as part of its 23 programs of long and short films...