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 ...
The Chicago Reporter will commemorate its 35th year of exploring Chicago's race and poverty disparities with its first-ever short documentary film competition and festival named...
After the success of their first film "Straightman," the "two Bens," Ben Berkowitz and Ben Redgrave, used their leverage and co-produced the documentaries "Rockets Redglare" and...
Seattle-based Corbis has launch of its worldwide Corbis Broadcast Solutions and named Jennifer Giles one of four new Business Development Managers in the U.S. and Europe. Gil...
STORY'S Laurie Rubin directed a new continuing Ace Hardware campaign that focuses on the store's helpful employees, created by Mars Advertising of Detroit, the new agency for Oa...
HANK NEUBERGER, Chicago's sound guru, is currently in Palm Springs where he will head a 90-member crew, including lots of Chicago guys, to produce a three day webcast of the ...
Midwest Media Group (MMG) has formed a strategic alliance with AZCAR Technologies of Toronto that will expand AZCAR's presence in the Midwest through MMG's sales offices in Arli...
"THE DARK KNIGHT," Warner Bros.' latest "Batman" installment could be "the largest single production ever shot in Chicago," says the CFO's Rich Moskal. It could add at l...
WHO SHE IS: As the effervescent executive director of IFP/Chicago since May 2004, leading the large, local independent film sector, connecting people and opportunities and offer...
