It looks like the venerable Chicago Community Film Workshop will have a new home at Kennedy-King community college, reopening in time for summer classes. CFWC executive d...

Chicago made its mark in the 2004 Project Greenlight with five aspiring local filmmakers who beat 1,700 entrants to advance to the next tier, a select group of 250, who ma...

Alex Epstein, who got his video start at a tiny Alaska TV station, has brought his 20 years of television programming experience to Del Hall Video. As executive producer for de...

This summer's hot ticket will be for "Mission Possible: An Evening with John Woo" June 12 when special guest of the Gene Siskel Film Center's June 12 Annual Gala will be the int...

THE WAGE TAX CREDIT BILL (HB 5180) is en route to a five-year extension, having passed the Illinois house and is now under consideration by the state senate. Originally a...

Vagabond Audio is the new audio post house of engineer/sound designer Drew Weir and producer Rise Sanders that officially will open April 28 in River East Plaza. The full-s...

Nicolas Cage is stalking me! He's outside my Bucktown apartment morning, noon and night ? everytime I look out my window, or walk out the door - there he is! Luckily, I think ...

Brian Reed's Bam Studio has moved into Spots BME's former audio room, the only audio room in the Midwest designed by Russ Berger, who is considered one of the two top accoustica...

TRADEMARK CONFLICT NOT FUNNY. Second City Television (SCTV) took umbrage over the SCTV acronym of the new Stand-Up Comedy Television cable channel and told the upstart channel t...

A law suit started by an actress, who had not been paid a $700 fee for four months and brought against Park Ridge talent agency McBlaine & Associates, was settled after five mon...

The husband-and-wife team of Beth and Gary Hoover have forsaken all others, so to speak, to concentrate on a screenwriting career in Chicago. Their focus and determination ...