Ari Golan has come full-circle. Gearing up to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his Golan Productions/Atomic Imaging with the company's notorious annual Halloween bash Oct. 2...
In the new Kellogg's Frosted Flakes commercial from Leo Burnett promoting posters with sports figures, Radar went on location to film kids trying harder to do their best at spor...
A lot of good friends have rallied together to help assure the future of two little girls whose mother, Gail Kennedy Benson, died Sept. 28 of pancreatic cancer. Mrs. Benson,...
DDB/Chicago is the first agency in the country, to its knowledge, to recognize the growth of media beyond traditional advertising by designating a director of branded produc...
Three years after moving back from Los Angeles to his native Chicago, veteran film and TV horror maven Gary Sherman has almost completed his first feature in 15 years, a serial ...
When she saw "Fashion Man" Vincent Falk running toward the middle of the State Street bridge before a tour boat passed on the river below, Jennifer Burns knew she'd found th...
Marc Selz' sophomore slasher pic "The Rockville Slayer" hits stores Nov. 1 in a home video deal with Freestyle Entertainment and Universal Music's Visual Entertainment division....
SPLIT PILLOW'S collaborative feature "Common Senses," a tribute to the 10th anniversary of Dogme95, premieres Oct. 21. "Common Senses" was shot in succession by five directors, ...
Ch. 11 is getting it back together again after a funding slump with the launch of three new shows the station will produce. "CEO Exchanges" hosted by journalist Jeff Gree...
A show that began with modest expectations of a slot on a local cable outlet has bloomed into a global multi-media experience that will be the model for future shows. Play N...
Pete Jones, the inaugural Project Greenlight director, has made the big leagues. He sold his spec script "Hall Pass" to Fox for a Farrelly Brothers production in a high-si...
What filmmakers on location love best is finding those amazing offbeat restaurants and cafes. It so happens that Chicago offers lots of unexplored territory for the dining adven...
Mike Meiners' debut feature "The Trouble with Dee Dee," a comedy inspired by the life of his mother, has its world premiere in the Chicago International Film Festival. Lisa ...
Action auteur John Woo was hesitant when Robert K. Elder first approached him to do a book of interviews with the director. "There are a whole bunch of massive inconsistenc...
Prog rock guitar hero Adrian Belew of King Crimson reunites with his bandmates in the rock quartet The Bears, in Film Foetus' new rockumentary "The Bears: Out of Hibernation." ...
SPLIT PILLOW shoots its fourth collaborative feature "Realization" from mid-October to mid-November. Eight filmmakers will direct seven distinct chapters written by seven screen...
JON JOST ("All the Vermeers in New York"), the Chicago native called "the American Godard," premieres two recent feature films Oct. 12 and 13 at the Film Center. Ryan Harper ...
DANIELLE BEVERLY'S documentary "Learning to Swallow," about Wicker Park artist Patsy Desmond's journey to recovery after a suicide attempt destroyed her digestive system, screen...
Danielle Beverly was an accomplished young TV documentary producer looking for a subject for her first feature doc when, in 2000, she heard that her friend Patsy Desmond had att...
With feature film production slowing as we head into the final months of 2005, Illinois Production Alliance leaders are defining an agenda for the coming year and issuing a call...
