Although "Leverage" isn't filming in Chicago, local visual effects designer Derek Frederickson of Twisted Media will continue to provide all the graphic animation for the next 1...

First Michigan became a tax-break production mecca. Now it's rolling out the red carpet for guests and celebs on Oscar night, Feb. 22, at a transformed "movie studio" in Grand R...

ROCKY ALCARESE of Handheld Films directs 26 days of production in mid-March in Chicago and Will County on the under-$100,000 hitmen-go-after-one-of-their-own thriller "The Busin...

Producer Chris Skrundz of Amazing Media took product durability-testing to the next level in a viral video for Motorola's new Tundra cell phone, currently playing on YouTube. ...

One of the uses to which Hector Perez of Rocket Productions will put his new high-end HD camera will be minority-designated production services for Energy BBDO's new Illinois Lo...

Energy BBDO took home the prized Illinois Lottery's $105 million worth of general market advertising business, winning over competitive agencies JWT and Marc USA for an initial ...

The economy has forced a change in the way the international Mobius advertising awards presented those coveted golden statuettes to 2008 winners. With travel "a tough call,"...

Although his screenplays have been contest finalists, Colin Costello won his first screenwriting prize last week in the comedy category from the 2008 Annual FilmMakers Internati...

JOE SWANBERG'S latest feature "Alexander the Last" will be released by IFC on VOD March 14 through the company's label IFC Festival Direct, day-and-date with the film's premiere...

The SAG strike saga continues to unfold like a movie with the board firing Monday of Doug Allen, national executive director and chief negotiator with the studios. The modera...

MAYOR DALEY PROCLAIMS JAN. 30 "ER" DAY in Chicago, and in a twist you rarely if ever hear of ? "ER" will present a gift to the city, "in recognition of the generosity the pe...

The Illinois Film Office's "Shortcuts" film contest is back in business for a second year and statewide filmmakers have five months from now ? until June 30 - to enter their sho...

Over my 30 years of chronicling the local industry ? beginning Jan. 29, 1979 - our reporting in the Original Screen and continuing in ReelChicago, I have covered the good, the b...

A week before the Presidential Inauguration, "U2 3D" producer Peter Shapiro surprised Sara Yule with a call asking her company, Wiggle Puppy Productions, to provide Chicago foot...

Hollywood editor Michael Matzdorff returns to his native Wisconsin to direct his first feature, "Feed the Fish," on his family's Door County farm this February. "Feed the Fis...

With the production of the 5-minute comedy web series "Sexperts," Columbia College's Television Department launches its new Internet and Mobile Media concentration. "Sexperts...

Filmmakers Ines Sommer and Kathy Berger are seeking entries for Evanston's Talking Pictures Film Festival, May 1-3, billed as a celebration of films "with a unique voice and poi...

It isn't everyday that a legendary cinematographer visits Chicago, so it was no surprise that the workshop Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC will conduct in Chicago on Feb. 8 was instantly s...

Selected by PBS because of his reputation as an expert in children's advertising, director Don Hoeg and the Radar Studios' team created a promo for the national Jan. 23 launch o...

ACTRESS HELEN HUNT was in Chicago last weekend with Chelsea Pictures/L.A. to direct a 60-second spot for Frito-Lay's new TrueNorth healthy snack brand that will air on the Osc...