One of the biggest grip/lighting equipment companies in the film industry has opened its first branch outside of Los Angeles and Las Vegas at Chicago Studio City. Cinelease ...
The best tres leches cake I ever tasted was at a small Latin restaurant in the Chelsea area of Manhattan, tucked away in a tiny hideaway called El Cocotero. When the sultry...
MEGAN VIDAS JOINS THE IFO in charge of the TV commercials sector in mid-November. Vidas, wife of uber-rep Rich Newman, is a former producer of political videos and commercials,...
Nikki Weiss, the hard-working rep for A-list production companies and directors, has become executive producer of a documentary that she's wanted to make for nine years. The ...
Former Illinois Film Office deputy director Bob Hudgins has left Chicago for Austin, Texas where he'll start his new job as director of the Texas Film Commission Dec. 1. He s...
Bob Hudgins got the call Wednesday afternoon offering him the position of director of the Texas Film Commission?and could he start his new job on Dec. 1. Notwithstanding tw...
Northfield-based Media Recall, the people who made Ch. 11's archives available online, have signed another PBS station, KAET, Ch. 8 in Phoenix, to digitize much of archives for...
The first Steppenwolf film is in the can. Steppenwolf Theatre Company co-founder Terry Kinney ("Oz") has wrapped on the short "Kubuku Rides," the very first production by Ste...
Steve Conrad, the local writer of "The Weather Man," signed with the Weinstein Company to direct his first feature here next spring, for an estimated $6 million budget. Sean ...
David Scott Hay has just completed the eight-year journey from stage to screen for his debut feature "Hard Scrambled," an epic contest for control of a greasy spoon. Kurtwoo...
The nine-part mini-series "The Pack II," sequel to the hit Polish TV mini-series, could be the first of several Polish TV dramas to shoot here in the coming year. "The Pack ...
A TRIBUTE TO KARTEMQUIN FILMS on its 40th anniversary, "Truth in Motion: A Retrospective of Kartemquin Films," will be held Nov. 3 and Nov. 10-12 at the University of Chicago Fi...
Pete Schwaba is ready to do it on his own. The co-writer of the 2003 MGM comedy "A Guy Thing" has fielded theatrical distribution offers for his directorial debut "The God...
RON FLEISCHER'S debut eight-minute animated short "Lemmings" took home the Chicago Award at the Chicago International Film Festival. Fleischer was an animator for "Animaniacs,"...
L.A. grows a little more like home for Chicago expats in the theater and film industries, as Windy City Players host their Inaugural Fundraiser Nov. 6 at the Knitting Factory in...
Cutters' owner/editor Chris Claeys is Chicago's man of the hour. Maybe even a tiny footnote to White Sox history. The possessor of one of the most valuable mementoes of major ...
ACTION/CUT FILMMAKING SEMINAR offers participants an intensive two-day workshop in bringing a project from script to completion. Oct. 29-30, Chicago Conference Center at Courty...
At last, after decades of feeling like orphans with noses pressed against the window of the indie movie world, Chicago filmmakers can now proudly proclaim to be part of that wor...
Susan Sarandon received the Chicago International Film Festival's Career Achievement Award at the fest's opening night at the Chicago Theater. Roger Ebert spoke with Sarando...
Ari Golan has come full-circle. Gearing up to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his Golan Productions/Atomic Imaging with the company's notorious annual Halloween bash Oct. 2...
