ALWAYS BUSY GEORGE ELDER of Luminair wrapped the Chicago shoot for the seventh season of "Mexico: One Plate at a Time." The half-hour TV shows are shot in Chicago at t...

GOV. BLAGOJEVICH BOASTS the estimated $21.5 million revenues generated from "The Express" and $3 million each from "Eagle Eye" and "The Lucky Ones," was ? according to the pre...

Chicago-founded film collective, Four Birds Pictures, won IFP's first-ever ? and biggest - $50,000 finishing grant for its debut feature, "A Thing as Big as the Ocean." The v...

Locally-made features by Carl Seaton, Joe Swanberg and Tom Gustafson, a feature doc about an underground rocker, and 10 shorts shine in the Spotlight Illinois section of the 44t...

A musical by the multi-talented Julia Cameron, who inspired millions with her books on unleashing the creativity within us, has its world premiere Oct. 19 at the Village Players...

Kartemquin Films has appointed current associate director Justine Nagan to succeed co-founder Gordon Quinn as executive director of the 42-year old producer of socially relevant...

The Illinois Lottery's $500,000 holiday TV commercial will be produced by a "collaborative effort" between Illinois-based Gobos Film & Entertainment and the New York production...

A memorial service will be held for veteran CRC engineer/sound designer Tim Butler Sunday, Oct. 5, from 6-8 p.m. at the Capital Grill, at Ohio and St. Clair. Mr. Butler, 5...

Music house Comma has opened a Los Angeles branch for the second time in nearly a decade, and this time will be the charm. Chicago composer Justin Hori has moved to the Coast...

IN THE COMEDY "TAPIOCA," actor/producer Mike Houlihan stars as a cynical comedian taught a lesson in the golden rule when he's cursed by a homeless man (Ben Vereen). His son P...

THE WOLVES are at Bosco Productions' door, in the best possible sense, in commercials the full-service company created to promote attendance at the homes games of Chicago's NLH ...

With an avalanche of entries for the first time in a decade and 256 nominations in 57 categories ? not to mention the hundreds of individuals connected with the nominations - t...

Detroit-area producer Bob Brown is pitching a slate of scripted and unscripted TV series to networks that would be produced in Michigan. "The television business is consisten...

If the Cubs win the World Series, the production team of Jon Siskel and Greg Jacobs could win more than $1,000 pledged to a website that would help fund their latest feature doc...

Over the last year, casting director Jennifer Rudnicke estimates that her company, Tenner, Paskal, Rudnicke, has placed about 200 local actors on the big and little screen, in T...

FLASHPOINT ACADEMY named former agency producer Linda Wolfe director of student placement, a new position, announced Flashpoint president/CEO Howard Tullman. Her mi...

"SATANIC PANIC," Marc Selz' documentary-style horror feature, won't make it into the theatres for Halloween, but it will have a world premiere Nov. 28 at the Westin Chicago Nor...

The brave new technology world that fractured old models has created numerous new ways to break old boundaries in doing business in the visual media industry today. One of th...

Sedgwick Productions is finishing its third in a series of Northwestern University documentaries for the Big Ten Network, with the working title "Nanotechnology." The doc foc...

FILM MICHIGAN: TRAINING EXPANDS. More than 60 students are taking the 2-week Basic Film Training Program at the Henry Ford Community College in Wayne County, now through Oct....