A small group of novice playwrights got together in 1979 to form a collective at the old Organic Theatre. They had little money, but great determination to write, act and pro...
The City of Chicago shut down construction on the house where the network reality series "Starting Over" was set to shoot. Reality clashed with television "reality" thi...
It's an idea whose time has come. A full-fledged, super-sized, international spotlight on animated films. And it's being launched in late fall by a producing pair who brough...
by Joan Tortorici Ruppert In the digital age, face-to-face networking has become even more important as we relegate much of our communication to silence and text. B...
Rob Ruiz (right) and Hafez Ali Muhammad (left) are producing the feature film "Gigs" in Humboldt Park and Puerto Rico starting this June. Weary of the stream of "thugs and ga...
Carmine Cervi (pictured) and his Bulletproof Film partner Ilko Davidov will shoot in Vietnam this August for their documentary "Teaching the Vietnam War: Reconciliation ...
Hakim Bellabes has just completed his first fiction feature, "Threads."Hakim Bellabes was at work last year on a documentary about the impossibility of financing an indepen...
Hakim Bellabes has just completed his first fiction feature, ?Threads.? Hakim Bellabes was at work last year on a documentary about the impossibility of financing an indepe...
First "Chicago" was filmed in Toronto. Then the cable story of dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker and mayor Rudy Giuliani. And now ? from the people who should know much, much bett...
Seed, a new L.A.-based commercial company, is the joint venture of Backyard partners Roy Skillicorn and Blair Stribley and Science+ Fiction founders Steve Mendelson and Kevin...
"Starting Over," the first network daytime reality series, shoots in Chicago through the end of the year.Bunim/Murray Productions is days away from beginning production in Ch...
Deaf Dog's new Focusrite console is one of only eight in the worldJohn Ovnik of Deaf Dog Music is on track to realize his longtime vision of expanding the spot music house ...
Dalia Tapia (center) and her crew will shoot the HD feature "Princesa Tarazca" in Mexico and Chicago starting this August. Pilsen-based filmmaker Dalia Tapia is off to Guadal...
Gregory Edwards shoots his debut feature "Sullivan" this June.Gregory Edwards is out to tell a quintessential Chicago story."For me, Chicago is about buildings and large cons...
Bix Pix Entertainment's "Doh Doh Island" video hit stores June 1. Starting June 1, Toys ?R' Us stores across the country begin stocking "Doh Doh Island," a 23-minute ...
Ray Sheehan is searching for Chicago singles with photogenic lives."We go out and look for people who have visual jobs or hobbies or do volunteer work that's very visual," sai...
Deaf Dog's new Focusrite console is one of only eight in the worldJohn Ovnik of Deaf Dog Music is on track to realize his longtime vision of expanding the spot music house ...
By Ruth L Ratny Cable guru Ray Solley once produced for Ch. 11. One of the cable networks has a slightly bitter underbelly to its shows and considers every film it r...
With the minutes ticking away to the end of the Illinois legislative session, the state Senate Saturday night passed the wage/tax credit bill that gives Illinois its first ste...
Illinois Tourism's first commercial of 2003 from BBDO directed by Dennis Manarchy shows off seven tourist "must see" destinations, from the Magnificent Mile to the Ga...
