VICTORY GARDENS BUYS BIOGRAPH. Victory Gardens Theatre will buy the Biograph, at 2433 N. Lincoln Ave., for $2 million and spend $7-$8 million renovating it into a new 299-seat m...
Director Bob Ebel has worked on many commercials over the years with DP Brian Clare and considers him a good friend. When Clare's health problems mounted, Ebel immediately step...
Hundreds of scripts and works in progress will be represented in the second Indiefest Film Festival and Market July 30-Aug. 9, the only film market in the Midwest. This year's ...
Researching the effects of methamphetamine abuse on central Illinois addicts for his forthcoming feature documentary, John Novotny kept encountering the same image from hi...
Parris Reeves' horror feature "The Evil One," financed by Florida's Maverick/Breakaway and due for video release in August from Lion's Gate, has its world premiere July 16-17 at...
Local 476's late Frank Hobbs had a saying: "When the stages are busy, we all prosper." After a too-long Gobi Desert-like dry spell, the hope is that the proposed Central ...
Q. How would I find out about upcoming film productions so I could see about submitting my info? - Hank A. Ahhh, that's something everyone wants to know, Hank. By the time f...
The Illinois Production Alliance elected its second slate of officers since officially organizing in 2003, headed by president Eileen Willenborg, SAG/AFTRA executive director, f...
Six filmmakers who have created films on Macs and edited on Final Cut Pro will be featured in a new Film Week program of shorts, July 19-23, in the theater at The Apple St...
The Film Center's Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video marks its tenth year Aug. 7- 19 with an unprecedented six local productions making their Chicago de...
The CTA Lost & Found is waiting for the owner of a Portabrace bag left on the bus July 6 to claim his property. Some nice person turned it over to the CTA and Carrie, of the Los...
A BENEFIT FOR ANTHONY COLLAMATI'S 2004 IFP/Chicago Production Fund-winning short "The Apologies" will be held Thursday, July 8 at Trace, 3714 N. Clark, from 7 p.m. to midnig...
It's a big summer for Mark Harris. After writing several unproduced scripts for hire, his directing debut "Why Men Cheat" is in post-production at Day For Night Film in V...
Ch. 20 editor Ricardo Islas continues his string of Hammer Films-inspired low-budget horror pictures when he shoots his lesbian vampire thriller this August. "Night Fan...
by Jonathan Abarbanel JOE MANTEGNA made a surprise appearance at the Royal George Theatre last week, delighting the cast and audience of "Bleacher Bums," the show about die-h...
TEST SPOT GURU and Daily Planet founder Fred Berkover continues to ply his years of expertise with a new company partnered with Swell president Mike Topel. Tentatively n...
"Monsters and superheroes" are the rage at this year's Chicago Short Comedy Video and Film Festival, according to fest coordinator Willy Laszlo. "Each and every year ther...
It was 25 years ago July 12 that then-WLUP-FM DJ Steve Dahl helped seal the fate of the disco craze when he staged his notorious "Disco Demolition," exploding a crate of d...
Director Zack Parker will take his mostly Chicago crew to his native Richmond, Indiana this September for five weeks to shoot his second feature, the projected $2 million ...
DePaul University has put its resources behind "a motion picture company first and a classroom second" by launching a bona fide indie production company with the dual goal...
