were presented to Victor Garber, TTS alum W. Earl Brown and multi award winning Emma Thompson by The Theatre School at DePaul University April 19 at the Four Seasons Hotel. Thom...
The Whitehouse husband-and-wife CEO Charles Day and COO Christine Tardio on May 13 will leave the post house they originally founded in the mid-?90s as The Lookingglass Company....
The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee announced 107 nominations in 23 categories for non-union productions during the 2004-2005 season. Winners will be honored at a June 1...
Horror veteran Gary Sherman ("Poltergeist III") returns to feature directing after 15 years with the DV serial killer movie "39," which wrapped production here in early April. ...
THE HIP HOP MUSICAL "Pluto: the Opera" with music by Justin J. Mayer lead audio designer at Swell's audio division BOOM! and librettist Idris Goodwin runs June 10-26 at the...
One of Bob Hudgins' last acts as deputy director of the Illinois Film Office was assuring that the state's vast collection of 25,000 location photos wouldn't languish in the fil...
JOHN MALKOVICH stars in the indie production "Drunkboat" that shoots May 23-June 25. Writer/director is Chicago native and theatre director Bob Meyer who, like his old f...
JOHN LOGAN, Oscar-nominated author of "The Aviator," has made a $43,200 gift to the small City Lit Theatre Company, thereby eliminating a long-term debt that's clung to City Lit...
"Prison Break"?the first series scheduled by Fox TV for its 2005-2006 season?means more than three months of production in the Chicago area. The pilot was shot in the Joliet Cor...
For the first time, producers can order replicated DVD-5 disks in quantities as low as 100 through Global Video's new DVD Century program. "We can now take orders of 100 p...
CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL early deadline is May 1. For short projects under 60-minutes fee is $40, longer and feature length entries pay $80. Fees increase ...
A Global Super 8 Event will be held May 8 at Chicago Filmmakers as part of 40 events taking place in 40 cities, held in recognition of the 40th anniversary of Kodachrome 40, Sup...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Chicago improv that had its genesis in the legendary Compass Players, which in turn spawned The Second City. Paying homage to that ...
Korean arts and media group Yehyang Cultural Ministry is throwing its hat into the filmmaking arena with "The Gift," an HD Christian dramatic feature that shoots this May and Ju...
It's been a year since freelance editors Mindy Hilt and Karla Svatos opened post house Edit Diva, and while business has ebbed and flowed, they've grown enough to start expandin...
In the world of improv and sketch comedy, Chicago reigns supreme. Nowhere is that more evident than in the eighth annual Chicago Improv Festival, now through May 1 at the Athena...
When the DVD of George Romero's new zombie picture "Land of the Dead" hits stores this summer, it will include Rusty Nails' featurette "Stay Scared: The Art of George A. Romero....
JULIA LING, who guested on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," has signed to play the lead role in Nathyn Masters' Hong Kong-style martial arts pic "Silvergun Samurai," slated to shoot ...
Each of us five 2004 Chicago Project Greenlight finalists hoped to become the next hot director of the $1 million dollar feature produced by show creators Matt Damon and Ben Aff...
The Loop is reviving its (much) earlier rep for outrageous (but effective) promotion with a Chicago area search for the $50,000 Loop Rock Girl spokesmodel. The $50,000 is th...
