Austin Powers' sidekick Mini Me touts the "Set for Life" game, with the biggest cash prizes in any promotion in Illinois Lottery history. The fast-paced "movie trailers" wer...
WHO SHE IS: Marie-Jo?lle "MJ" Rizk, sought-after DP and camera operator for TV, reality and medical shows, documentaries and narratives. TV shooting credits include "America...
The highly acclaimed Film Wisconsin incentives appear to be the best thing that could happen to? Illinois. About $78 million worth of movies that were interested in filming ...
Angle Park's Martin Baumgaertner has set out on one of the biggest and most ambitious projects of the many he's produced for the Field Museum?14 different videos for the museum'...
DALIA TAPIA is weeks away from closing a deal for domestic DVD distribution of her debut feature "Buscando a Leti" ("In Search of Leti"). A Pilsen school teacher and alum of ...
Thirteen new half-hour episodes of "Jack's Big Music Show," the inventive live music and puppet series, begins its second production season from early July through August at Pos...
THAT THE TAX INCENTIVE BOOSTS BUSINESS was evidenced during August 7-19 when six spot houses took advantage of Illinois' 20% film tax credit. Bi-coastal HSI produced for ...
Actor Vin Diesel dealt an unexpected blow to Chicago when he reportedly pulled out as the star of Accent Pictures' $30 million action-drama "Black Water Transit." It was due to...
The small spots with simple names are the ones that always snare me, e.g., The Latin Sandwich Caf?, 4009 N. Elston Ave., an unassuming Chilean restaurant. It's the kind...
Director Barbara Freeman's decision to leave her familiar office of 14 years wasn't an easy one. She could stay at 10 W. Hubbard St. by downsizing her space or staking out ...
Story executive producer Mark Androw produced the first commercial last month under the new 20% tax incentive?his 27th job utilizing the Illinois tax incentive to stretch increa...
Cinedigital of Madrid, Spain will release Kitchen Film Productions' microbudget gangster picture "Legit" on 400 screens throughout Spain this August. Cinedigital minimizes i...
"DRUNK BOAT" DIRECTOR Bob Meyers and DP Lisa Rinzler are due back in Chicago in July to color correct with I-Cubed's Mike Matusek. The indie film was filmed in Super 16 la...
An audience of 2,000 adfolk attended the 15th annual AICP Show at the Museum of Modern Art last week to applaud the 82-minute reel of the best commercials of 2005. Unlike in...
A new sound recording studio is underway under the baton of Michael Nehs, a former local film company executive, who has raised $750,000 from investors to build and operate ...
Split Pillow wraps up its fourth production season with perhaps its most commercial project yet?a produced-under-the-radar gay comedy called "soulMaid." "Certainly gay audien...
With his feature "8 of Diamonds" just finished and fresh from the Cannes Market, director/producer Scott Prestin has his next film slated for an August shoot, and a third in the...
Local celebs and political leaders are among the guests expected at the IPA Victory Party June 13 at Rockit Bar and Grill. The party celebrates IPA's influential role in ...
GEORGE ELDER'S CONCERT DOC, "Piaf: Her Story ? Her Songs," sung by French jazz singer Raquel Bitton, is set for June 19 release by Lionsgate to major national U.S. retailers...
Celebrating the roots of hip hop and its potential while critiquing the current state of the culture, Sonali Aggarwal's in-progress feature documentary takes a hard look at "Wha...
