Not unlike many companies affected by the economy, Michael LaBellarte's Outsider, Inc. design and production company has drastically cut its overhead and moved to new and smal...

George Tillman, Jr., prominent Columbia College alum and one of film Chicago's big success stories, has signed with Story for exclusive national representation as a commercial ...

New York-based Station Films hit the jackpot when it came up the winner in the three-way bid among exclusively coastal companies for the Illinois Lottery's two-spot Second Chan...

The 2009 Advertising Woman of the Year is Draftfcb's managing director Karen Sauder. She is the latest on a lengthy list of agency leaders who were named to the top honor by t...

"We Believe," the authorized Chicago Cubs documentary, debuts locally June 2 at the cutting-edge the theatre in theWit, the new Loop hotel, before an invitational audience. ...

GAVIN MacLEOD, fondly remembered as "The Love Boat's" skipper and Mary Tyler Moore's fellow TV newswriter, will be the special guest June 8 at the screening of a faith-based...

SAG and AFTRA memberships overwhelmingly approved new three-year radio and television contracts, voting 93.84% in favor of them. Approximately 132,000 members of the two union...

Actor/director Jeff Daniels' latest feature will have its Midwest premiere at the 11th Annual Waterfront Film Festival June 11-14 in Saugatuck, Mich., where 70-plus films in f...

Beverly Ridge Pictures, the young company behind the $2 million Outfit drama "Chicago Overcoat," made its first foray into commercial production with a series of PSA's for the ...

In the film biz, dreams often do come true. When writer-director Hugh Schulze and producer Stacey Evenson first began working on Shulze's short film in 2007, their avowed goal...

Michigan will be the location late this summer for a major motion picture being financed and produced by TicTock Studios of Holland, Michigan. TicTock Studios of Holland, M...

Hootenanny editorial boutique has brought a former Avenue Edit colleague into their circle. It's representing Los Angeles-based editor Dean Gonzalez, who brings 13 years o...

ACTOR DENNIS FARINA, a former Chicago cop who has appeared in 71 films and TV episodes since his first gig in Michael Mann's 1981 "Thief," was seen scouting locations in Lin...

Evanston writer and filmmaker Paul McComas celebrated this week after winning the inaugural "Best Short Feature" prize at the Talking Pictures Festival for his horror homag...

The estimated $25 million spent by Michael Mann's blockbuster "Public Enemies" in the state last year pumped up officially-tallied 2008 revenues to $141 million, from productio...

Despite the fact that the Wisconsin legislature's Joint Finance Committee voted unanimously to keep tax credits for the film and video game industries in the budget, the state ...

The Illinois Lottery appears to be up to its old tricks of hiring a non-Chicago, big name bi-coastal company for its upcoming comedic "Second Chance" promotional package. Ju...

Award-winning director/editor John Anderson is wrapping his feature-length doc, "Sons of the Blues," to meet the June deadline for entry in the Chicago International Film Festiv...

The Bitter Jester partners Nicolas DeGrazia and Daniel Kullman depart May 19 for the first leg of an African shoot in Central Angola, shortly after producer Malachi Leopold retu...

In May, 2006 then-newsmen Harvey Moshman and Chuck Coppola came across "one of those stories you live for and can't pass up" when they covered a commemoration of a lost World Wa...