THE FILMING OF "PUBLIC ENEMIES" in Wisconsin last week brought Oshkosh an estimated $4 million, a figure based on the that each overnight visitor spent $172 per day and each ...
The IFP is in search mode for a new executive director to succeed popular, energetic Elizabeth Donius who leaves Chicago August 15 to move to Connecticut. The IFP board is ...
As of Monday, April 28, Audio Producers Group (APG) will conduct its first session in a studio across the street from the Leo Burnett building, after four years as an outside-o...
THE ROGER EBERT FILM FESTIVAL April 23-27 in Champaign is topped by such distinguished guests as directors Ang Lee and Paul Schrader. Fest founder Ebert will be absent f...
Detroit-based composer-producer Dan Yessian reluctantly agreed to the pleas of his son, Michael, company rep Helen Kaye to enter his song that they felt had "winner" written all...
Following the advice of Chicago visionary Daniel Burnham, Pixel Brothers' John Patterson is "making no little plans" as he sets in motion positioning Chicago as the New Media Ce...
Screen Actors Guild has sat down at the bargaining table with Hollywood studios and the networks over a new three-year deal on the key issue of improved movie and prime-time TV ...
Come July, with only two suitcases of hardware, a dedicated bandwidth and a T1 internet connection, Mitch Norinsky's Backstar Creative Media will launch a system for producing ...
The Wachowskis' new North Side post and special effects studio will give Chicago the Hollywood glitz it has long needed to move it into the foreground of production. The n...
ELLEN DeGENERES will tape her popular daytime show here May 3, although the taping venue hasn't been announced. Since her show airs on NBC, taping at Ch. 5's big studio seems...
Radar Studios' produced four comedy spots for AirTran Airways/Cramer-Krasselt as part of its internet campaign promoting AirTran U's new "Fly Free 'til You're 23" promotion. ...
Art lovers will flock to the Merchandise Mart April 25-28 to see the riches of Artropolis, Chicago's international celebration of art, antique and culture displayed by 780 exhi...
It is painful, but probably necessary to watch this situation play out in public. I anticipate being criticized for writing this letter. To read in print that the Digital Ci...
Michelle De Long and Tim Horstman are celebrating the beginning of a beautiful friendship after their production companies scooped six 2008 Telly Awards. The awards included ...
A collective sigh of relief echoed through the city Thursday afternoon when the Illinois Senate, finally, unanimously voted to put the 20% Film Tax Incentives back in action. ...
Executive producer Jeffrey Stott is light years away from glitzy Hollywood this month. The executive producer of "The Bucket List," "The Omen," "Misery" and other blockbu...
Just days after making a controversial decision to dismiss two highly praised professors, DePaul announced an imminent and major restructuring of the school that houses the Digi...
SELLING THEIR WARES at Location Expo in L.A. this week is what Scott Robbe would call "A Third Coast coalition" as film office heads and associates from Illinois, Wisconsin ...
For the past few months, I have been assembling IPTV business plans for a number of my clients, some of whom are new to both digital video and the internet. For many of th...
Chicago's new screenplay contest from Scott Prestin's American Stonehenge Films and Craig James Pietrowiak's Squid Brothers will award cash prizes and exposure to winners, plus...
