WHO HE IS: Award-winning director/photographer Justin Hayward, auteur of festival fave "Divorce Lemonade," is co-producing, directing and editing his first feature, "Fireproof G...
After 20 years at now-defunct Broadview Media, producer Rich Hawksworth will launch his own production company, Mythic Pictures, in custom-built space in end of July. He is i...
Former agency creative director Don Pogany has launched his own creative shop?"more like Andy Warhol's Factory than a boutique," he explained?and planning his third monthly Thir...
Towers Productions uncovers the anatomy of the Iraq quagmire with "The Road to War," premiering on National Geographic this August. It features first-person accounts from key...
JWT'S CHICAGO OFFICE is on the brink of extinction after the loss of $180 million worth of Kraft business, an account this office has held for 70 years. Not so, insists...
JUAN FRAUSTO'S hip-hop vampire comedy "Get Pony Boy" has its theatrical premiere June 8 at the Historic Portage Theatre, after debuting in April at the Chicago Latino Internatio...
When Hurricane Katrina rocked New Orleans in 2005, filmmaker Alex LeMay became fixated on the soul behind the ruin. Seizing on a short item he read in The New York Times, and...
WHO SHE IS: As executive director since 2003, de St. Aubin oversees programming and initiatives of the 35-year-old Gene Siskel Film center of the School of the Art Institute. ...
Catherine E. Rubey's debut feature as writer-producer, "Baggage," has snagged Corbin Bernsen ("L.A. Law") as lead actor and Dirk Benedict as director, for a planned September pr...
Emerzian's "Spatulatta.com," a cooking show for kids, lost to the Culinary Institute of America, "Living on the Filmmaker Gaylon Emerzian had her "moment" of feeling like a Ho...
Back in 2000 Kristen Petrovich said when she was dazzled by the first HD images, she saw the future. Six months later she intrepidly launched the first HD Expo in Los Angeles. ...
Senior Flame artist Chris Ryan?whose eye-popping list of Hollywood blockbusters includes "300" and "Titanic"?has set up Chaos Studios, a viral collective of some of the best 2D...
The story of how Ted met Laura on what was supposed to be their wedding day will be featured on an upcoming ABC "20/20" show, with footage supplied by Dave Monk's Brave New Pic...
When company owners sell their business to another company, and a solid employment contract is in place, the expectation is they will remain with the new entity. When that happ...
Milwaukee decided that it doesn't want to wait until Jan. 1, 2008 for new tax credits of up to 25% for qualifying productions to kick in. Through an arrangement with VI...
"Love. Blood. Kryptonite.," an HD feature shot last summer with a $40,000 budget will have its premiere this week at suburban theatres. What's different is that the movie ...
MARC SELZ shoots his third feature, "Satanic Panic," an '80s style horror pic inspired by the hysteria of that time over ritual Satanic abuse, this summer in Rochelle and Galena...
If feature film production alone continues through the end of the year, 2007 could shape up as a $90-$100 million year, according to early projections. Revenue estimate is...
Veteran advertising executive John Fromstein has organized Fulton Market Films, a collective of creative and production talent, who will focus on the full gamut of new media con...
SPINNING HUNK POWER INTO RELIEF AID, "Ocean's Thirteen" will have a June 7 Chicago premiere to support relief efforts in war-torn Darfur. Producer Jerry Weintraub and "Oc...
