Sales expectations are high for the audio drama of "The Old Testament," budgeted at $5 million, that's currently in production by the Falcon Picture Group and Cerny American Cre...

The Detroit area is shaping up as the biggest movie center between coasts, with a $150 million investment in two film studios to be completed this year that will create about 5,...

While Chicago was shivering in subzero weather, One World Productions' Michael Neumann was in Florida shooting three 30-second spots for Key West Tourism's "Come as You Are" cam...

Upwardly mobile young adults were targeted by the producers of "The ?O' Mission" as the audience for their newly launched webseries that "organically introduces" Tracey Powell's...

HMS Media, the Emmy-winning arts programming specialists, is looking forward to one of its biggest and busiest years in its 21 years of business. Between now and May, the Des...

DRAFTFCB ADDED TWO TOP CREATIVES, industry veterans Doug Behm and Jon Flannery as SVP/CDs to work on the agency's KFC account. Since 2001, Behm was SVP/group creative di...

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...