Writer Leeper’s first feature filming in Evanston
When a very young Moira McMahon Leeper took classes at Evanston’s Piven Workshop, her teacher advised her not to plan things out,
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When a very young Moira McMahon Leeper took classes at Evanston’s Piven Workshop, her teacher advised her not to plan things out,
L.A.-based “Funny or Die” website regular and Winnetka native Alex Beh is back in town as writer, director and star of his debut feature Warren.
The coming-of-age love story shoots
GOV. PAT QUINN had to bow out of heading the Chicago contingent at the important TV Production Executives Dinner in L.A. on Aug. 1 due to pressing government business in
After a five-year absence, the 22nd Chicago Film Critics Awards (CFCA) takes the spotlight at the Broadway Playhouse in Water Tower on Jan. 7, it again will be the first
The next two weeks will be busy ones for Nat Dykeman. He’s prepping to shoot his feature in mid-March, releasing a film on his Cinema Obscura DVD label and
COUNTY BOARD PRESIDENT Todd Stroger’s 2010 $3 billion budget proposes no new taxes, it does include his controversial 2008 sales tax hike the highest overall sales tax in
ABEL CINE TECH opened a Midwest sales office and small showroom in Oakbrook Terrace, headed by Kari Hess, and joined by production salesman Gregger Jones,
It’s not retirement for casting director Jane Alderman, but more like a transition back to her theatrical acting roots. The trailblazer who put hundreds of Chicago actors on the
PEOPLE WERE STANDING IN LINE in Stamford, Connecticut this week waiting to be admitted to the first live taping of “The Jerry Springer Show,” a fixture in Chicago-originated television
With many of Chicago’s ad agencies owned by foreign conglomerates, like car dealerships selling foreign brands, even the old “Made in America” is gone from so many products
WHO SHE IS: A freelace producer and postproducer of commercials and long-form films for 15 years, Sandra Gordon is president of the volunteer Illinois
MovieMaker Magazine tapped ReelChicago editor Ruth L Ratny for an interview in www.moviemaker.com about the subject she knows best?the Chicago film industry.
From classics like
Stories of the little-known business of product placement were spotlighted on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable in the person of Chicago’s George Simkowski of Let’s Go Hollywood.
Product placement veteran George Simkowski recalls the glory days when he placed client Budget Rent a Car in the 1987 John Hughes hit comedy,
IFO assistant director Bob Hudgins is “cautiously optimistic” about the possibility of three Hollywood features spending all or some time this winter.
While “The Weather Man”
