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...
With two months to go before Wisconsin unleashes its delayed film incentives package, Film Wisconsin executive director Scott Robbe is confident the state will boast "at least $...
THIS IS ROGER EBERT'S YEAR for prestigious awards. He will receive the Gotham Award presented by the Independent Feature Project Nov. 27 in New York. The Gotham prize wa...
SUREE TOWFIGHNIA'S "Standing Silent Nation" won marijuana magazine High Times' 2007 Stony Award for Best Documentary. Alex White Plume, the subject of "Standing Silent Nation...
One of the city's biggest entertainment industry networking events will focus on the most theatrical of holidays. Chiopolis Entertainment and the Chicago Independent Artists ...
Frank Vincent, who played New York mob boss Phil Leotardo on "The Sopranos," stars in the in-production indie "Chicago Overcoat" as The Flowerman, an Outfit hit man taking out a...
WHO HE IS: A former adman on the business side, Ryan McDougal made "a turn on the dime" to visual effects artist after an intensive 15 months of animation and effects study at ...
Taking place for the rest of the Summit are eight panels of experts, the Flyover Zone Short Film Festival and party, two film premieres and special pitch and mentoring sessions.
MovieMaker Magazine tapped ReelChicago editor Ruth L Ratny for an interview in www.moviemaker.com about the subject she knows best?the Chicago film industry. From classics ...
The looming Writers Guild of America strike would be "devastating" to Chicago production, said Local 476 business manager Mark Hogan. "The major production companies won't att...
