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...
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...
