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...
In a hotly contested race between two former Chicagoans resulting in the largest turnout in the history of any IATSE Local election, DP Steven Poster, ASC, solidly defeated DP H...
WHO SHE IS: As director of the Illinois Film Office since Jan. 29, her primary focus is "getting the word out and helping people understand how wonderful our film tax incentive ...
Filmworkers Club provided the post services for Element79 Partners' first-ever spot campaign for Roadhouse Bar-B-Que with three spots built around the premise that "the stuff ma...
Tom Gustafson and Corey Krueckeberg of SPEAKProductions will return to Chicago in June to shoot "Were The World Mine," the feature-length version of their acclaimed 2003 musical...
MARIA GIGANTE is a Top 5 finalist in MTV/MTVu's Best Filmmakers on Campus completion, which has already earned her short film "Girls Room" a slot on the contest web site and a s...
After nearly a two-year hiatus from the film industry, Zoe Pintzopoulos Borys is back in business as general manager of Fletcher Chicago's camera rental division. She will w...
Writer/producer Carey Lundin's video/web creation, "Citizen Kate," inadvertently became news in her quest to learn more about presidential candidates and write about them on her...
Based on their years in the TV news business, producers Michelle DeLong and Tim Horstman know what makes for a good show when they see it. For them it's stock car racing?not th...
The International Assn. of Independent Creative Editors (AICE) will induct Chicagoan Bob Sinise (yes, Gary's father) into its Hall of Fame at the annual awards ceremony at Navy ...
Chicago will boast a brand new 40,000-sq. ft. South Loop facility with two sound stages, a motion picture capture studio and an animation lab?exclusively for the use of Columbia...
WHO HE IS: Classically-trained "lower cost alternative" composer Greg Nicolett, 25, garnered Emmy certification in 2003 as an arranger for Brian Keane Music's score for HBO's "L...
Director Jaime Mariscal's first feature, "Welcome Back to the Barrio," won the Best Chicago Made film in the just-ended Latino Film Festival. The story is about college stude...
After two years as an effective volunteer organization, Film Wisconsin has opened its first official office and named Scott Robbe, industry veteran and a Film Wisconsin founder,...
Chicago was a happenin' place in the Soaring Sixties. Young filmmakers were changing the face and modus operandi of film, thanks to the new technology of the time, now seeming a...
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...
A NEW JWT CAMPAIGN for Dreyer's Dibs? bite sized ice cream snacks will run a cinema ads in July and August, and run on TV from now through the week of Sept. 17. Douglas Avery...
Just months since opening their doors, Chiopolis Entertainment LLC has ambitious plans including three feature films and a dozen-plus shorts, renovating its Humboldt Park facili...
WHO HE IS: He became senior producer at Wide Load Games after spending two years as studio director at motion capture-focused Red Eye Studios. At Red Eye, Krusell brought an...
ELLIOTT V. PORTER directs the feature "All About the Ring" for 25 days this August. "The film is a romantic comedy about how the institution of marriage has been trivialized ...
