The Redwalls will play their "Game of Love" song when they appear on the Jay Leno show April 10, on the heels of director Ruth Leitman and producer Leigh Jones' completion ...
"Welcome to the Barrio," the action/drama from producer David J. Miller's Mindlight Films, is set for DVD release this summer by Laguna Pictures of Santa Clarita, Cal., follow...
Oscar-winning sound editor David Stone and two-time Emmy-winning sound and dialog editor Lou Kleinman spent the DePaul University spring break reeling from the surprise new...
KARTEMQUIN FILMS, the granddaddy of social commentary docs (including "Hoop Dreams") is the 2008 Hugo Awards honoree for Commitment to Excellence in TV Productions, and L.A.-...
Whooee! Illinois revenues from film production soared to $155 million in 2007 ? an all time record high for movies, TV shows and commercials, an 80% increase over 2006's $86 mi...
Fletcher Chicago, which started out 21 years ago as a camera sales company, has sold its camera and accessories sales division to Abel Cine Tech of New York and Burbank, one o...
I believe that editing software advances are still possible, but most of them will not affect the average one-man-band editor. Other than interface improvements, I don't see...
An estimated audience of 30,000 is expected to attend the 24th International Latino Film Festival, April 4-16 ? the nation's largest cultural event, says founder Pepe Vargas. ...
Andrea Wassel drew on her years of experience as an agency spot producer, "among the ego and chaos" on L.A. and New York shoots, as inspiration for "Leftovers," her comedy scre...
Less than a year after three onetime Chicago actors launched their Chicago Motion Picture Studios (CMPS), they're co-producing "20% Fiction," with Robert De Niro as executive p...
One thing is for sure. It won't be the same NAB this year and it may never be the same again. Let's recap. In January, Avid surprised the industry by announcing that it ...
Aletha Noonan built her Chicago Greenscreen Studios last November as a place where she could produce her unique children's videos. Now that production is humming at a steady pa...
The long-overdue passage of the 2008 Illinois Film Tax Credit?now including talk shows that spend $5 million in production, like Oprah and Jerry Springer?should be a done deal ...
WILLIAM FORSYTE leads a slate of familiar and sometimes sinister character actors in producer-director Scott Prestin's crime thriller, "The Chicago Blues," slated to shoot in l...
Project Accessible Hollywood takes place in Chicago all this week. Its ambitious aim is to engage everyday people from all walks of life, who have a story to tell through a dig...
Award-winning Tribune columnist Rick Kogan claims "pure joy" has kept him inspired to host Cable 25's monthly "Conversations with Extraordinary People," starting his fifth year...
Producers Christine O'Malley ("Wordplay") and Jim Czarnecki, ("Fahrenheit 9/11"), whose controversial new docs were Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominees, are among 12 experts at ...
Filmmaker Christopher Coppola's unique digital media PAH-FEST is coming to Chicago for a full week, March 22-30. It's not for professionals or film students, but read on. Non...
"Spy Kids'" Alexa Vega performs one of her first grownup roles in L.A.-based Windward Entertainment's low-budget film, which shoots here March 24-28. Windward's Evanston-ba...
Staunch union organizer/field representative Jay Riggs of the Motion Pictures Editors Guild 700 wants to "regenerate the local editorial scene" by signing many new editors to t...
