D.P. CARLSON'S ROCKUMENTARY "Live to Dream!" about KISS guitarist Paul Stanley premieres at the Chicago KISS Fan Fest Nov. 24 at the Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites in Carol Stre...
Chad Hutson's trademark could be the jazzy visual projects he spices up with musical numbers, like the impossibly catchy Jens Lekman tune, "A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill...
A group of independent filmmakers from Naperville will host the city's first annual Independent Film Festival September of 2008?but with a big, helpful difference from other fes...
Feature producers who love shooting in Chicago, but routinely take their negatives back to L.A. for editing and finishing, might heed the high praise Robert Townsend heaped on a...
WRITERS STRIKE NOTWITHSTANDING, loyal-to-Chicago homies director George Tillman and producer Bob Teitel will shoot their next feature, called "Humboldt Park," here in Febru...
Detroit-headquartered Organic, Inc., a digital communications agency, has opened its first new office in three years in Chicago in search of "fresh new pockets of talent" to sup...
For a while there, it looked like Chicago could turn into a thriving TV town. Two promising TV pilots wrapped and a new one will arrive the end of the month, all with the expect...
With the post for two network TV shows underway, corporate work, their own shows ready for market and an aggressive new stance, Pixel Brothers is aiming for top market position....
Way back in the day of the adworld so aptly portrayed by the AMC series "Mad Men," agencies largely promoted themselves through full-page ads mainly in Advertising Age to reach ...
Lightning can strike thrice in the same place, as the screenwriting duo of Beth and Gary Hoover can attest. That plus the fact that dogged persistence and countless rewrites can...
Three years after Electronic Arts opened studios to produce video games in Chicago, the office closed Tuesday as a cost-cutting measure and released 146 local employees, who wi...
MIGHTY JOE PYTKA, the brilliant, irascible, multi-honored spot director returns to Chicago this week after a long absence to direct Hallmark spots for Leo Burnett. ALSO SPOT...
HERE'S A REEL DEAL. Get free tickets to the screening of Jeff Garlin's "I Want Someone to eat Cheese With" at the Nov. 6 Midwest Independent Film Festival by going to www.mid...
Legendary comedy writer and actor Bruce Vilanch, who has ties to Chicago, appears during the Nov. 8-18 Reeling 2007: The 26th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival. ...
In Chicago, Roger Marsh is one of many indie directors looking to make his mark. But in a little nook of Southwestern Pennsylvania, he's a celebrity. Last summer, Roger film...
What would have been the 4th annual Silver Images Generational Award for the best film portraying the process of aging went missing from the 43rd Chicago International Film Fest...
WHO SHE IS: As one of Chicago's most influential casting directors and owner of Simon Casting for 11-plus years, Claire Simon works with major networks, advertising agencies, th...
When Patrick Yacono of Electronic Arts met his associates for dinner downtown last Friday he complained of not feeling well, indigestion, perhaps. The next night, Oct. 27, t...
The best the best of Chicago theatre will be recognized Oct. 29 at the 39th Annual Jeff Awards at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie. Winners will be an...
Producer Steven A. Jones joined the faculty of DePaul University's innovative Digital Cinema program, adding another link between one of the Midwest's fastest-growing cinema pro...
