Grossman & Jack Talent -- for the first time in its 17 years of business -- will represent talent and services other than voiceover and on-camera, with the new addition of t...

Chicago could benefit from the loss of New York's film and TV production tax incentives ? and the loss of a lucrative TV series. Gov. David Paterson increased the existing...

Media Process Group is producing the Chicago Urban League's new 13-week, half-hour entrepreneurship TV series "nextTV," which airs Sundays on two local TV channels. The show,...

Founder Nat Dykeman is confident that this year, despite the economy, the 6th annual Lake County Film Festival, March 4-10, at the College of Lake County has all the makings of ...

Veteran actor Steven Saltz has taken his online celebrity interview show to a late night TV show concept ? a half-hour of interviews and performances by local and visiting talen...

Since March is the month of St. Patrick's Day, it's fitting that WTTW's March Pledge Month will feature an original doc, "Irish Stories," and for good measure, Chicago native an...

BEN BERKOWITZ WILL DIRECT the long-planned feature "Polish Bar" in Chicago, starting in March. "We are committed to shooting and working in Chicago because of "so much talent ...

Rich Carroll, a former Chicago commercial director was killed Feb. 22 in a motorcycle accident in Austin, Texas where he had lived for the past 15 years. No details about the c...

THE FOOD NETWORK is launching an unnamed reality show "like an ?Amazing Race' for expert foodies," says casting director Joan O'Connor of O'Connor Casting, which will hold ...

Independent movie producer Susan Moses said she will find another location for her $6 million, independent sci-fi movie, "Nephilim," if Wisconsin's 25% tax credits and other inc...

California is determined to keep its feature film and TV production in its own backyard with a stunning new five-year $500 million tax credit that will make producers think twic...

Three features and a documentary about acclaimed local improve actors will represent Chicago when they premiere at the Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, March 13-21. ...

When Misty Tosh completes her reality show assignment in mid-March, the globe-trotting producer will spend a month of humanitarian work in the slim volcanic Indonesian island o...

Foundation Content has opened an office in Santa Monica in "as a way of expanding our reach into the L.A. market and to facilitate shoots there for our Chicago clients," says Sa...

Although Concept One Media founder/president Linda Livorsi runs a bustling $1.3 million-grossing production company in Downers Grove, she occasionally gets behind the camera as ...

Factual programming behemoth Towers Productions has signed new deals with Discovery and author-adventurer James Campbell as part of a projected 100 hours of content it will prod...

Manifest Digital will move to the forefront of Chicago's marketing agencies since receiving a $9 million investment from BIA Digital Partners of Chantilly, Va., a private invest...

Two exciting parties will celebrate the 81st Academy Awards just blocks apart on Oscar night, Feb. 22 One is Hub the 51 Awards party, where Richard Roeper will challenge ...

For just $800, and with a little help from his friends, Vincent Singleton has directed and shot a music video for Illinois band Written in Red's new single "Last Chance." "Th...

SETH McCLELLAN'S "KING IN CHICAGO" is a new hourlong documentary chronicling Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s collaboration with the Chicago Freedom Movement for open housing in...