Soft business, the shortage of features and concerts that were his core business, caused the shuttering of Scott Smith's Chicago Audio Works at The Media Center, 676 N. LaSalle ...
Before: The derelict Dempster St. station in Skokie is ready for the wrecking ball.After: Cartoonist/animator J.J. Sedelmaier's input helped to beautifully restore the 1924. ...
The new Sloppy Seconds screening series from the Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF) kicks off Feb. 4 with Todd Verow's pioneering digital feature "Little Shots of Happines...
Columbia College alums Bob Teitel and George Tillman Jr. continue their close relationship with the school by providing a sneak preview of their Chicago-made "Barber Shop II" as...
It's to all our benefit to spread the word. Feel free to forward this explanation to as many producers as possible. The wage tax credit act (SB 785) enacted by the Illinoi...
"Weather Man" writer Steve Conrad is also co-producing with Todd Black and Penny Rose. Besides Nicolas Cage, it stars Hope Davis and Michael Caine. Filming starts here Feb. 2...
By Jonathan Abarbanel An exuberant John Calloway moderated a recent City Club of Chicago luncheon panel devoted to the business of live theater, the first City Club event foc...
Chicago's next boutique hotel is certain to be a theatrical affair: 128 rooms sitting on top of the Shubert Theatre at 22 W. Monroe St. The historic, mid-rise Majestic Building...
Producer Leigh Jones returned from Slamdance invigorated and justifiably excited as the indie feature she produced for director/writer Hurt McDermott claimed the Jury Honor for ...
If you're not a member of IFP/Midwest and you're an indie film fanatic ? here's your chance to join the organization and enjoy all the benefits of membership ? plus cast y...
Among the many Chicagoans at Park City, Utah this week is Leigh Jones. She's not at Sundance, however, but at Slamdance 2004, where the film she produced was one of 12 th...
The Chicago expatriates of Soul Mate Pictures are back in town this January to make the company's third film, "Rain Today."Directed by veteran stuntman Carl Paoli ("Minority...
Rudolph Caplan was staying overnight in an infirmary on the night after Kristallnacht in November 1938 when Nazis raided his school and shipped all the male students over ...
Xan Aranda recalls the "sad thrill" of seeing short films she loved at Sundance and other festivals."The life of a short film can be so fleeting," she said. "I wanted to be...
Red Car editor Marc D'Andre wanted a change from L.A. and let it be known around the water cooler that he was looking to move. "Somebody heard me and the next thing I kne...
No sooner was the word out that tabletop director/ shooter Mark Klein had opened his own studio than his New York clients began ringing the phone off the hook, said executi...
By Jonathan Abarbanel The Fire Commissioner was there. Not his assistant, but the Commish himself. Ditto, the Building Department Commissioner and the Director of the ...
HIGH POWERED COO TO DK. New COO at Digital Kitchen is Bruce Hanson, formerly in sales and business development at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and considered a very visible...
Y&R CD Jon Wyville joins Fallon/ Minneapolis as a group CD Feb. 7. His credits at Y&R include recent work for Miller and NASCAR. Earlier he'd worked at McConnaghy Schmidt...
Chicago's vibrant editing scene gets a boost when the national AICE Show takes place here this spring. The third annual show will be an event that show chairman Tom Duff ...