All 440 seats at the IMAX Theatre at Navy Pier have been sold out for the Chicago International Film Festival's July 16 Chicago premiere of "The Dark Night." The block of ti...
"Boxboarders," George Elder's teen comedy, goes into national DVD distribution July 29, via Peace Arch Entertainment Group, the Canadian company best known for having brought "...
Starting Tuesday, Betty Rake will get off the bus one block sooner than her Wrigley Building destination of 20 years, when she starts another chapter of her career. One of ...
With a mob of people, including Harold Ramis and other filmmakers at his side for the cameras, Gov. Blagojevich on Tuesday signed into law the Illinois Filmmakers Tax Credit Bi...
WE HEAR ... and this is only a rumor, hearsay, unconfirmed talk and all that -- BUT it's being bruited about that Springfield might up the filmmakers' tax incentive ante t...
The photo op the governor's office has been waiting for, so that Gov. Blagojevich can finally sign the Filmmakers Tax Credit bill, almost happened last Monday. Super st...
Due to the huge interest and number of calls received about the film set instruction provided by TicTock Studios of Holland, Michigan, a second "Basic Film Set Training" course...
A strong motivation for the abrupt firing in March of two enormously popular DePaul Digital Cinema teachers was offered by a tenured DePaul University professor, who also criti...
The Chicago New Media Summit Launch on June 5 will set the stage for the actual Summit itself, which will be held sometime in early fall, instead of the originally announced Ju...
THE SHOW DEPARTMENT founders/owners president Lee Faclis and vice president Jeff Facklis will host a gala, invitation-only silver anniversary party for clients, colleagues a...
Veteran film/TV producer/director Gary Sherman is heading a one-of-a-kind Actors Workshop as the first program to be held at Flashpoint Academy's new broadcast media studios at...
In a clever bit of satirical casting, the role of a George Romero-like horrormeister in "The Art of Pain" is portrayed by Lloyd Kaufman, president of New York-based Troma Enter...
Michelle DeLong's "clan" is one of many companies that's changing spaces during Chicago's traditional moving month of May. On May 31 the three affiliated companies will p...
Fulton Street Media celebrates its first anniversary this month by producing an informative web video for CB2, Crate & Barrell's modern-chic sister company, and wrapping up one...
OPTIMUS' PARTY Thursday for 500 invited clients to introduce two new facility features, was one of the most elegant business-sponsored events in recent memory ? and Optimus' f...
History repeats itself, as Chicago Film Archives proves with its May 16 presentation of the sights and sounds of the turbulent week of the 1968 Democratic National Convention i...
Within a year of finishing school, three Columbia College graduates are getting a taste of the big time as they work as Production Car department assistants on Michael Mann's $...
Janet Lockwood, Michigan's feisty film office director ? who has the distinction of being the longest serving film office director of any state ? dismissed the report that she b...
Five hundred-plus Michigan excited filmmakers packed Grace & Wild's Stage A in Bloomfield Hills to hear leaders explain details of Michigan's tax incentives that are rocketi...
Actor Jim Halas did something quite amazing. On his own initiative, he picked up the phone and dialed 312/814-2121 -- that's the number for Gov. Blagojevich's Chicago office...
