Chicago has a particularly strong lineup this year at the increasingly influential South by Southwest Film Festival, running March 12-20 in Austin, Texas. In the lineup are d...

Pixel Brothers is back in the game with an upcoming production of 26 half-hour episodes of "The Treasure Hunters Roadshow," thanks to a successful NATPE showing in Las Vegas. ...

That overly long Hollywood dry spell will finally end in early March, with three TV pilots getting underway, a fourth being talked about for early spring, and a Vince Vaughn fe...

It sure looks like the new syndicated "The Nate Berkus Show," from Harpo Productions/Sony Pictures Television (SPT), will be produced at Harpo's West Side studios. Although n...

MULTI-TALENTED ANDY RICHTER, Conan O'Brien's former writer and sidekick, is back atop the list of commercial directors represented by Story, now that "Late Show with Conan O'...

Grand Rapids has earned bragging rights to "the world's largest sound stage" as Hangar42 Studios' 450,000-sq. ft. full-service film production studio opens for business in that...

One of the changes in the new AICP/Midwest-Local 476 labor agreement is a provision that helps fund high-tech certification training programs for union personnel, in keeping wi...

PRODUCER/SCREENWRITER JIM WHITE may prove that lightning does strike twice. He just got the word that his screenplay, "Dinky Dau" (Vietnamese slang for "crazy") was selected ...

You win some, you lose some. Michigan knows, winning a new production company that plans to open a $20 million film studio in Clinton Township (90 minutes northeast of Detroit)...

It looked like tumbleweeds in the exhibit hall at last week's National Assn. of Television and Programming Executives (NATPE) held at Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas. Attendance h...

WYCC-Ch. 20 is seeking relationships with independent producers, in which WYCC can serve as the presenting station for co-productions to air on Ch. 20 and to offer the program t...

Madison filmmaker Cory J. Udler celebrates fellow DIY horror filmmakers in his documentary, "I Made My Own Damn Movie (and lived to tell about it)." After making the 2009 fe...

The lighting class of Dave Moravec of Pixel Brothers, a part-time Columbia College instructor for many years, had the distinction of inaugurating Columbia College's new $21 mill...

FILMMAKERS CAN EARN MONEY when their films play on Hustlefilms.com. Armand Lucas of HustleFilms is offering filmmakers 10 to 20 cents-per-view to play their shorts on his site ...

Mike Starr has done his share of mob movies. The veteran character actor and onetime Chicagoan starred in the local "Osso Bucco" and has done supporting turns in "Goodfellas" a...

It goes without saying that Kartemquin docs always attract an enthusiastic audience, but it is a rarity when one of them sells out two weeks in advance of the screening date. ...

The great DP Philip Bloom of London, considered the world's foremost Video DSLR shooter and evangelist of DSLR low-budget filmmaking, arrives in Chicago Sunday to participate in...

Producers Boris Wexler and Julian Grant of Escape Films have the distinction of being the first Chicago filmmakers to shoot a feature entirely with the Canon EOS 7D, one of the ...

When two couples walked out of a screening at John Borowski's real life horror docu-drama, "Fish," at Horrorbles small theatre in Berwyn, the filmmaker felt compelled to talk to...

"BLACK MAIL," the modern-day take on "Much Ado about Nothing" by Slamdance and Jeff-winning writer director Hurt McDermott, premieres in a three-night run starting Feb. 5 at the...