50 Cent: Goodbye Grand Rapids, hello New Orleans
“Freelancer,” Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s fifth movie scheduled to start shooting in Grand Rapids March 28, has moved its production offices to New Orleans.
“That’s $20 million that walked out the
“Freelancer,” Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s fifth movie scheduled to start shooting in Grand Rapids March 28, has moved its production offices to New Orleans.
“That’s $20 million that walked out the
A feature and a documentary about socialite Bertha Honoré and real estate developer Potter Palmer will be the first projects for River Forest husband-wife Eric Anderson and Amelia Dellos’ new
Awards went to Chicago’s most talented entertainers in 45 categories at the recent star-studded 30th Annual Chicago Music Awards (CMA) that celebrated the city’s vibrant music scene.
“Chicago is
WHAT AN UNEXPECTEDLY NICE GESTURE. In surely what’s got to be a first in the 35-year annals of Hollywood-in-Chicago entertainment production, departing director Ron Howard, stars
GROSSMAN & JACK TALENT, the popular agency owned by veteran agents Mickey Grossman and Linda Jack, are now settled into their more comfortably configured new
THE PILOT FOR “ATF” (short for the U. S. Justice Department’s Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Bureau) will be the third hourlong TV drama to film on Chicago locations,
Steppenwolf Films is the producing entity for “The Last Rites of Joe May,” a low budget indie starring home boy Dennis Farina that wrapped Dec. 19 after a four-weeks of
Firebrand South Side pastor Rev. Michael Pfleger is the latest documentary subject for Bob Hercules of Media Process Group, whose prior films tell the stories of then-Senator Barack Obama, community
THE HOTTEST TICKETS IN TOWN were those issued by Universal Studios for the Chicago preview of “Public Enemies” that screened in two theatres in the River East 21
DIRECTOR HAROLD RAMIS receives the “Just for Laughs” Lifetime Achievement Award at the red carpet screening of Columbia Pictures’ “Year One” at the Music Box, June 16.
Kevin Cooper, producer of the 2003 Robert Duvall/Michael Caine/Haley Joel Osment family picture, “Second Hand Lions,” makes his feature directing debut with the canines-run-amok horror picture “Day of the Dogs,”
“NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET” began shooting last week at Elk Grove high school in that suburb, moving onto Hersey high in Arlington Heights. “Elm Street” producers cleverly
Former DePaul Digital Cinema professors Dave Stone, Vanessa Ament and Lou Kleinman are still reeling from the impact of the unexpected and unexplained decision by DePaul University officials to fire
DRAFTFCB ADDED TWO TOP CREATIVES, industry veterans Doug Behm and Jon Flannery as SVP/CDs to work on the agency’s KFC account.
Since
Color correction guru Bob Sliga was the only man in Chicago had a big smile on his face as he shoveled snow from the sidewalks of his Frankfort home a
Emmy-winning producer Joan O’Connor is suffering culture shock.
Recently returned here after spending two decades toiling in the Los Angeles reality TV trenches, she says, “The
Culminating in six years of development, Steppenwolf Films’ first film, “Diminished Capacity,” opened July 4 to generally good reviews by major film critics.
THE GOOD NEWS is that the Illinois Filmmakers Tax Credit has actually, finally, honestly passed the state Senate!! Now it’s due to go back to
Back in the early ?90s, video artist Brian Dressel was one of the key players in the Chicago rave party scene.
Through his work with video