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...
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...
