Ten months into launching their advertising art studio, StudioSatellite partners Alex Page, a longtime DDB staffer and Clay Skougard, a Hollywood studio retoucher are in the bla...

Harry and Joe Gantz are on their way back to Chicago to shoot the eight-part Showtime series "A More Perfect Union" based on the pilot they made here last March. Best known f...

The Chgo/LA Film Actors/Writers/Filmmakers Conference Oct. 13-17, starting with a massive Hookup Party on the eve of the Conference, makes good on the premise of connecting Chic...

CLINT EASTWOOD AND RYAN PHILLIPPE are in town through next week to wrap "Flags of our Fathers," the tale of the soldiers who raised the flag at Iwo Jima in WWII. NAMES IN TH...

Once editing is completed on the John Malkovich feature "Drunk Boat," I-Cubed will utilize its new Nucoda Master Systems to conform, color correct and polish the film. I-Cub...

Leading local documentarian Steve James ("Hoop Dreams," "Stevie") followed legendary producers rep John Pierson and Pierson's family to the Fijian island of Taveuni to document ...

When Oprah Winfrey toured the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for her special coverage of the disaster, Keith Walker was behind the camera. "Oprah told Keith it was one of the...

It was no contest Wednesday night as Leo Burnett pulverized its nearest competition to take home 14 individual and two Best of Show awards at the 3rd Annual Chicago Creative Clu...

High def experts will deliver "HDTV State-of-the-Art," a Roscor-sponsored day of four important seminars on various aspects of HD production, Sept. 29 at Sangamon Street Studios...

Superior Street closed its trio of companies on Friday, Sept. 16 after a decade of operation, its abrupt ending taking employees and the community totally by surprise. "We...

Chicago native Terrence Howard's 17-year film and TV career underwent a seismic shift with his star turn in "Hustle & Flow," the Memphis hip-hop drama that sold to MTV and Param...

WHO SHE IS: Rachel Herbener, an A-list commercial script supervisor, who moves in a world of big ad agencies, high-profile directors, and fast-paced shoots. JOB DESCRIPTION...

U.S. TV audiences get an unusually personal window into the challenges of teen pregnancy this October, when the Kindling Group's documentary "A Doula Story" has its broadcast pr...

Fletcher Chicago has a dynamite duo leading sales and rentals with Kevin O'Connor's promotion to sales manager and the addition of Stan Glapa taking O'Connor's former position o...

"PRISON BREAK" has broken through the ratings so strongly that Fox TV has given the go-ahead for nine more episodes for a total of 22. The producers are no less thrilled than ...

What filmmakers love best while on location is seeking out those amazing, offbeat restaurants and cafes. It so happens that Chicago offers lots of unexplored territory for the d...

Some years ago, spot editor Yamus (real name Jim Mudra) was working on a PSA spot. The footage involved many children and atmospheres, related his friend and colleague Red Car e...

"HOMESICK BLUES", the 15-minute short that my wife Junko Kajino and I made in Osaka, Japan, will have its world premiere Oct. 8 at the Chicago International Film Festival. T...

No sooner back from south of the border shooting Rick Bayless' "Mexico One Plate at a Time" bowing Sept. 12 on Ch. 11, Luminair's George Elder headed for California for his seco...