Looking for a stage? How big? Where do you want to shoot? To help you make that determination, ReelChicago scouted around to identify a surprisingly large list of 38 st...
Monika Szewerniak spent a week working at a local modeling agency that she said gave their clients false expectations to scam them out of fees."The amount of people they tak...
Changing spaces. Popular FCB/Chicago president/CEO Dana Anderson is DDB's new CEO, reporting to chairman Bob Scarpelli. Former agency president Ray Gillette will head a ...
It was a very long two weeks earlier this month for Sound/Video Impressions. The Des Plaines sound studio recorded 200 hours of Spanish language instruction, edited and m...
Animation production — and more — is again moving to the forefront by the ambitious expansion of Dreamation, owned by partners Brooke English and Lee Litas, to...
THE FOUNDATION OPENS. When his 10-year Red Car contract ended, editor James Lipinsky decided the time had come to go into business for himself. On March 1, he opened the...
positions McGriddles as the "bedtime snack" of choice for young adults who count on having their best times between sundown and sunrise. Digital Kitchen produced, directed...
Sweet Home Illinois is the tentative name set for the June 19 party for former Illini living in the entertainment business in Los Angeles. It's patterned after the wildly...
From the success of his recent Bailiwick Arts Center production "R3," Mark Vadik has seen no less than three major opportunities to move from theater into film and televis...
By Jonathan Abarbanel "Proof," the film shot mostly in Chicago (plus some interiors in London) based on the award- winning play by David Auburn, is set for a Dec. 24 r...
Steve Ordower has a big idea to pay tribute to the legacy of his father, TV pioneer and civil rights activist Sid Ordower. He is developing a seven-part, high-end gospel...
When Steve Grein hosts a big party next month, he'll have more than his NeWave Video Productions' tenth anniversary to celebrate. Mainly an unprecedented flood of busines...
Project Greenlight entrant Scott Smith's stomach was tied up in knots all day April 27, the day 250 PGL contestants would be notified of whether they made the cut to the n...
Roberto Blanchard is rolling out the first of a three- film slate May 1 when he premieres his family baseball drama "The Magic of Summer" at the Burnham Plaza Theater.Write...
By Ed M. Koziarski Even as 2003 saw the lowest level of Hollywood expenditures in Chicago in years, one sector of local production seems to have remained firmly recession- ...
PIONEER EDITORS HONORED. Three spot editors from back in the day who virtually invented the modern post house will be inducted into the AICE Hall of Fame at the AICE nati...
As part of an ongoing effort to assure that minorities get a fair share of the work expected to be stimulated by the Illinois Film Tax Credit, the Illinois Film Office is ...
Rap superstar Nas stars in director Carl Seaton's $300,000 feature, "Sacred," that headlines the 3rd annual Visions Blu Symposium April 24. It sceens with a selection of...
It looks like the venerable Chicago Community Film Workshop will have a new home at Kennedy-King community college, reopening in time for summer classes. CFWC executive d...
