A WINNING LOTTERY STORY for a change. The Illinois Lottery's agency, Energy BBDO, actually assigned its new commercial to a 100% bona fide Chicago production company. Founda...

Villa Park duplication and video production services house CopyMaster Video celebrates 25 years this month in an industry that has been almost entirely transformed since the com...

CLAIRE CONNELLY, IFP board president, is producer of Josh Hyde's debut feature "Postales," which was one of 10 films selected to participate in IFP Narrative Film Lab's week-l...

September is going to be a bonanza month for film festival fans. As of now, seven uniquely different fests are scheduled throughout the state, and others surely will be announc...

Wisconsin's hard-earned and effective film tax incentives became history, for time being anyway, when Gov. Jim Doyle used his veto authority in the biennial budget Monday mornin...

Karma Entrepreneurs founder, Davis Jones, is calling out to Chicago filmmakers to collaborate on an innovative new web series, designed to promote musician/composer Justin Sconz...

When the Shedd Aquarium reopened its Oceanarium exhibit recently after a nine-month, $50 million facelift, it included a 3D animated video of a South African penquin habitat, cr...

THE CHICAGO COMEDY TV PILOT COMPETITION, designed to burnish Chicago's international reputation for comedy, returns for the third year July 22, with six half-hour pilots competi...

Celebrating their 25th anniversary, Ralph Murnyak and Kevin Blake's Image Base corporate production house is a rarity today, a thriving survivor of seismic technology changes th...

The June 14 debut of the second season of HBO's popular vampire series also marked the debut of Digital Kitchen's evolution to a hybrid agency for brands, while it remains one o...

It's official: The actual economic benefits of "Public Enemies" filming in the state were made known today, a full year after production ended. According to the Illinois Film...

Chicago actor/director Morocco Omari won the Best Short Film Award from the recent Hollywood Black Film Festival for "The (Mis)Leading Man," produced by casting director Sharon ...

Despite having recently cut back staff and office space, 3to1 studio's Josh Reichlin claims that a philosophy of cheerleading on behalf of their clients is keeping them busier ...

At last! After nearly a year of contentious wrangling between SAG and the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers, SAG members voted overwhelmingly to approve a ne...

THE HOTTEST TICKETS IN TOWN were those issued by Universal Studios for the Chicago preview of "Public Enemies" that screened in two theatres in the River East 21 complex Thurs...

DIRECTOR HAROLD RAMIS receives the "Just for Laughs" Lifetime Achievement Award at the red carpet screening of Columbia Pictures' "Year One" at the Music Box, June 16. The...

Former Jerry Springer producer Richard Dominick is one of several Chicago-Hollywood producers teaming with Pixel Brothers (PBI) as the studio moves into the realm of entertainme...

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 full complement of stars...

Burrell Communications bested three other minority agencies to win an initial two-year, $6.4 million Illinois Lottery contract to provide advertising and PR targeted to African ...

Stephen Cone returned to his apartment/production office the day after shooting wrapped on his sophomore feature, "In Memoriam: A Comedy," to find his movie had been stolen. ...