Executive producer David Leonardis has rounded up a diverse group of Chicagoans with celebrity status to discuss wide-ranging topics on his upcoming TV series, bowed Tuesday on CAN-TV at 10
It looks like HD has arrived at the consumer home entertainment level. Sears is now selling Samsung 3D television sets, although there are no 3D movies on DVD or shows
TIMING IS EVERYTHING, they say, and Roger Ebert’s new movie review show comes on the scene coincidentally as the last vestiges of Disney’s “At the
Despite declining sponsorships and internal cuts, the second annual Chicago International Movies and Music Festival (CIMMfest) fest opens with a “special surprise screening,” featuring Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Sonic Youth,
VINCE VAUGHN will team up with director Ron Howard for the first time this spring on an untitled comedy about infidelity. Vaughn always can be
CHICAGOANS HEADING FOR SUNDANCE will find a haven in Park City, Utah at the snazzy Jan. 23 cocktail party hosted on behalf of Columbia College by Denis
The third time was the charm for John Michaels, who was determined to produce the sponsors opening reel for the annual AICP Show. This year, after three years of
LOCAL MEMBERS OF AICE are being asked for $1,000 each to be used to fund an advertising and PR campaign to combat competition from agency in-house
Tony Izzo, a film pioneer who ascended from film lab intern to one of the giants in the postproduction business, died from cancer complications Sept. 27 at Hinsdale Hospital, with
The lightning speed of postproduction by Chicago HD and a team of editors and audio mixers took Lollapalooza 2009 from Millennium Park to FUSE TV in four days after the
COMMERCIALS RULE this month, as a slew of bicoastal production companies are here or en route to shoot national spots on city streets with local crews and
At the 2009 World Tour of New York Festivals Advertising Awards in Chicago last month, Leo Burnett won an impressive 10 World Medals at a gala presentation at the Cultural
Legendary filmmaker John Hughes, who singlehandedly created and sustained Chicago’s film industry in the 1980s and 1990s, died of a heart attack Aug. 6, while in Manhattan, where he’d been
TYLER JAY, recently with the 2016 Committee, joined Dictionary Films as an executive producer of content.
While he was with the 2016 Committee, Jay
Tech guru Bruce Montgomery, who has taken the helm of the 2,600-member Chicago Convergence (TCC), leads a meeting Wednesday to “edit and repackage ideas” for the second annual Convergence Summit
SOME POSITIVE PRODUCTION NEWS. Judging by how busy casting directors are right now, late summer spot production for the city is lookin’ good.
BRUCE MONTGOMERY, a co-founder of the two-year old, ever-growing Chicago Convergence, has stepped up as president. He is CEO of Wi-Fi Technologies and executive producer and host of
DURING THEIR FOUR WHIRLWIND DAYS in L.A., a Chicago sales contingent saw 19 producers, several with possible projects for the state, says Local 476’s Mark Hogan.
Potential entrants of Optimus’ second annual “One Shot” contest, that will produce the winning 30-second script as a high-quality commercial, will meet June 10 at Optimus for a contest briefing.
A “PUBLIC ENEMIES” PRESS JUNKET by Universal Studios is scheduled for June 18 in Chicago, with the conference to be held at Union Station, we hear. A
