Electronic Arts, one of the world's biggest developer and publisher of interactive entertainment?$2.95 billion in revenues in fiscal 2006?unveiled its latest game within the coo...
Screen Actors Guild will hold two special meetings Nov. 9 led by SAG's L.A.-based Zino Macaluso, national director, agency relations. The general educational seminar will ...
Three advertising veterans have formed a new branded entertainment company as a one-stop shop to create, produce and distribute content for proliferating new media outlets. ...
Most Chicagoans think of Michigan cities that curl around Lake Michigan as summer destinations, unaware perhaps that Holland is home to one of the biggest production companies ...
MARK EGMON decided to step down as president of AICP's Midwest chapter after an intense six years of service "to focus more intensely" on his growing branded entertainment comp...
SATURDAY, 10 a.m. ? "Film Festival Strategies," panel with Doug Jones, Los Angeles International Film Festival, Milton Tabbot, IFP, New York and Phil Bajoret, Chicago Internati...
The only two new Arrimax 18,000 watt HMI lights in the Midwest arrived Wednesday at Essanay Studio & Lighting. "These are literally the first lights out of the box," said E...
With his Columbia College classmate, director George Tillman, producer Bob Teitel of State Street Films helped launch a quiet revolution in African American dramatic entertainme...
SPLIT PILLOW launches its fifth season with the Chicago preview of the gay romantic comedy "soulMaid" in a three-night run at Chicago Filmmakers. Following the patented Spli...
David Scott Hay's debut feature, the jet-black comedy "Hard Scrambled," gets its first theatrical release in Beverly Hills . The film plays the Fine Arts Theatre now through O...
With more chances for interaction with national industry insiders and a strong selection of local filmmakers, IFP/Chicago continues to bolster its centerpiece program with the 1...
A few years ago it occurred to best friends Regina Fraser and Pat Johnson that their travels to exotic lands?80 so far?might make a good TV show. And so it has. They are t...
In the 11 years since she founded New York production company Killer Films with Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon has established herself as a leading force behind aggressively i...
A SILVER PLAQUE FROM INTERCOM was awarded to Rosemont-based National Roofing Foundation's Disaster Relief Fund, which was established to provide new roofs for Hurricane Katrina...
I like to unearth little gems all on my own, so when there's when mad talk about a trendy new restaurant, I lose interest and head off in a different direction. Hence the ...
The busy month of October is capped by the 15th annual IFP Filmmakers Summit, the one time of year when Hollywood is delighted to come to Chicago and share its secrets with us. ...
A MONSTER SEARS SHOOT is taking place ? 28 spots in all ?directed by Hollywood's Patty Jenkins, writer/director of Academy Award winning "Monster," starring Charlize Thero...
A teary Bonnie Hunt and an emotional Maggie Daley expressed their affection for each other at Women in Film's Focus Achievement Awards Tuesday. Besides their enthusiasm for...
Representatives of 10 Chicago film and digital entertainment companies have been selected to meet one-on-one with delegates of a high-level Hong Kong film delegation Oct. 25 dur...
