PrivilegedAccess.tv's web-news coverage of the recent 2008 All Candy Expo at McCormick Place was so successful that pleased exhibitors gifted producer Kathy Rivera and crew with...
Shooting on location soon might become an unnecessary expense as producers increasingly turn to the use of pre-shot motion content. "People don't need to re-shoot what alr...
Culminating in six years of development, Steppenwolf Films' first film, "Diminished Capacity," opened July 4 to generally good reviews by major film critics. The comedy...
After two years of planning, Michael Nehs' all-digital recording/post studio, Templar Sounds, will open in September in a unique Old Town building. Construction has started i...
Ft. Worth, Texas mayor Mike Montkrief unhesitatingly agreed to appear in a TV campaign that boosted attendance 20% for his town's baseball club, the semi-pro Ft. Worth Cats. ...
Jimmy "The Hat" Haimann is trying to generate support for his "Big Bahls," an independent comedy feature that will "push the envelope in every category possible." The film wi...
Picturesque Muskegon on the shores of Lake Michigan and known as a popular summer sports and recreational destination, is about to become the Hollywood of southeastern Michigan...
ACTOR DAVID PASQUESI'S TV SERIES, "Factory," will bow June 29 on Spike TV, but Pasquesi may not see the premiere episode. He is filming in Rome, in the super big-budget "A...
The Iraq War/PTSD drama "Farewell Darkness," which plays June 25-26 at the Film Center, is Daniel J. Pico's first feature film?but not his first war film. Pico's young caree...
Rebecca Schanberg said she was "extremely surprised and humbled" when she was named one of six filmmakers?and the only Chicagoan?who received a $5,000 finishing grant from the n...
ACTOR DAVID PASQUESI'S TV SERIES, "Factory," will bow June 29 on Spike TV, but Pasquesi may not see the premiere episode in Rome, where he's garnering a nifty credit in the su...
Barring extreme wealth or hermetics, everyone uses the grocery store. It is the great equalizer ? the marketplace where all socioeconomic groups can co-exist side by side ? in...
Chicago filmmaker Jerry Vasilatos says "no copyright infringement is intended" by his shoestring-budgeted short film "The Dark Knight Project," which he filmed this past weekend...
A year ago producer/director/DP Jerry Donahue and producer/editor Genevieve Wolff relinquished their lengthy freelance careers and merged their respective expertise into a bout...
On Friday, Pixel Brothers' 26 employees packed up and moved to its new home in 12,000-sq. ft. of beautifully rehabbed space in a "green" building at 400 N. Wolcott. Prod...
Wisconsin's biggest new-construction production complex will be built in an area that's better known as a sportsman's paradise than a media production center. West Bend-bas...
Recently I sat down to an interesting lunch with Global Video's founder and CEO George Marton and then visited his spacious technical facility at 230 E. Ohio St. I learned...
A rising star on the Chicago media scene, Jennifer Christenson hopes that "Positive," a weekly magazine show celebrating uplifting news stories, many from viewers themselves, w...
Since opening his own production company, AM Films, in May, executive producer has been occupied with a steady stream of business from spots, corporate, graphics and developmen...
CASTING DIRECTOR CLAIRE SIMON is in Detroit last week casting parts for a new ABC series, "The Prince of Motor City," to be directed by "Lost" writer Jack Bender, known for ac...
