At the year's mid-point, research companies take the temperature of various industries' growth and compare their findings to previous years to see where they are headed. Ov...
THE WACHOWSKIS' FIRST FEATURE coming out of their handsome new high tech facility at 5645 N. Ravenswood is the big-budgeted action movie, "Ninja Assassin," for Warner Bros. ...
A new authoring system acquired by DKP Image + Media "takes Blu-ray authoring out of the hands of the major studios and into multimedia houses," says DKP multimedia director an...
IF SAG DOESN'T STRIKE, the "The Beast," starring Patrick Swayze, whose pancreatic cancer thankfully appears to be under control, will start shooting here July 28 through lat...
MOVIETONE NEWS. The Patrick Swayze A&E TV series, "The Beast," has opened at Chicago Studio City and is getting set for a late July-early August start date. Chicago will ...
The American flag, that proud and enduring red, white and blue symbol of American heritage these past 232 years, will be on display just about everywhere this July 4th celebrat...
PrivilegedAccess.tv's web-news coverage of the recent 2008 All Candy Expo at McCormick Place was so successful that pleased exhibitors gifted producer Kathy Rivera and crew with...
Shooting on location soon might become an unnecessary expense as producers increasingly turn to the use of pre-shot motion content. "People don't need to re-shoot what alr...
Culminating in six years of development, Steppenwolf Films' first film, "Diminished Capacity," opened July 4 to generally good reviews by major film critics. The comedy...
After two years of planning, Michael Nehs' all-digital recording/post studio, Templar Sounds, will open in September in a unique Old Town building. Construction has started i...
Ft. Worth, Texas mayor Mike Montkrief unhesitatingly agreed to appear in a TV campaign that boosted attendance 20% for his town's baseball club, the semi-pro Ft. Worth Cats. ...
Jimmy "The Hat" Haimann is trying to generate support for his "Big Bahls," an independent comedy feature that will "push the envelope in every category possible." The film wi...
Picturesque Muskegon on the shores of Lake Michigan and known as a popular summer sports and recreational destination, is about to become the Hollywood of southeastern Michigan...
ACTOR DAVID PASQUESI'S TV SERIES, "Factory," will bow June 29 on Spike TV, but Pasquesi may not see the premiere episode. He is filming in Rome, in the super big-budget "A...
The Iraq War/PTSD drama "Farewell Darkness," which plays June 25-26 at the Film Center, is Daniel J. Pico's first feature film?but not his first war film. Pico's young caree...
Rebecca Schanberg said she was "extremely surprised and humbled" when she was named one of six filmmakers?and the only Chicagoan?who received a $5,000 finishing grant from the n...
ACTOR DAVID PASQUESI'S TV SERIES, "Factory," will bow June 29 on Spike TV, but Pasquesi may not see the premiere episode in Rome, where he's garnering a nifty credit in the su...
Barring extreme wealth or hermetics, everyone uses the grocery store. It is the great equalizer ? the marketplace where all socioeconomic groups can co-exist side by side ? in...
Chicago filmmaker Jerry Vasilatos says "no copyright infringement is intended" by his shoestring-budgeted short film "The Dark Knight Project," which he filmed this past weekend...
A year ago producer/director/DP Jerry Donahue and producer/editor Genevieve Wolff relinquished their lengthy freelance careers and merged their respective expertise into a bout...
