Dear Ruth: I am deeply concerned with the story you ran and I'd like to request that you correct all the factual inaccuracies contained therein immediately, namely: We hav...

Jim Belushi will be one of the Friends of Bill Hogan hosting a March 24 fundraiser on behalf of the former Teamsters official, as he defends his right to free speech. In a b...

IF YOU'VE BEEN COUNTING, Chicago has been bereft of Hollywood feature production for nine months. "Public Enemies" wrapped last June, after six months of spending quite a bi...

Producer Malachi Leopold wants to fly to the Sudan next month for a month of filming the poignant story of one of the Lost Boys of the Sudan, who will reunite with his parents a...

Among the three films Split Pillow has in the works are a feature that starts shooting in May, and a documentary in progress that will finish shooting this year. In the meant...

A copywriter persuades with concepts and language. Agility with words is just one element in the toolkit. When I added "hypnotist" to my business card, I acquired more train...

Leo Burnett imported Los Angeles directors and personnel to shoot footage for Chicago 2016 Olympic "bid films" aimed at showing the International Olympic Committee's Evaluation...

IFP'S 2009 PRODUCERS SERIES April 4-6 and April 18-29 at Columbia College focuses on documentaries. Toplining the series is a Kartemquin trio of creative director Gordon Qui...

FILMWORKERS NEW GENERAL MANAGER is 14-year veteran Manuela Hung, who now manages Filmworkers and Astro Labs in Chicago and Dallas and Lift motion graphics division in Chic...

When Oscar-nominated producer/director Tod Lending needed to improve audio on his latest project ?- an hourlong, $1.5 million doc, "The Principal Story," scheduled for a "POV" e...

Venerable Kartemquin Films, now helmed by recently-appointed executive director Justine Nagan, is embarking on a number of new initiatives to assure its viability and growth, e...

3D animator/director Paul Griswold has to his credit projects involving Cate Blanchett, Coldplay, Shepherd Fairey, David Bryne, and RZA without leaving his home town of Ft. Wayn...

Another Country has opened what is possibly the largest sound recording room in the Midwest -- one that clients are calling "the best room in Chicago," says partner/sound desig...

Former DePaul Digital Cinema professors Dave Stone, Vanessa Ament and Lou Kleinman are still reeling from the impact of the unexpected and unexplained decision by DePaul Univers...

"What! We're giving Oprah a tax credit?" exclaimed members of the Illinois House in reaction to an amendment to renew the Illinois filmmakers tax credit AND to include talk sho...

One local production company impacted by the Springer show's stealthy move to Connecticut is Pixel Brothers. It has been shooting the show's field segments for 10 out of the 19...

Spot FilmWorks' signing of Chris Neil for Midwest representation gives the Madison-based company its second Hollywood marquee name director. Neil, a nephew of Francis Ford Co...

While the country is draped in gloom and doom, a music supervisor and licensing expert wants to spread some, well, Joy to the visual media business. Joy Tillis' wants to bri...

The re-imagining of slasher classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street" means sweet dreams for feature-hungry Chicago, as production company Platinum Dunes settled into Chicago Studio ...

A movie veteran and a college film student started grass roots movement SAVE WI FILM INCENTIVES, aimed at generating a firestorm of protest letters to Gov. Jim Doyle and Wiscon...