HOT TICKET. A capacity crowd is expected at Joy Art's Dec. 15 Christmas party at the 410 Club. "We've planned a fun evening for the holidays," says Joy Art marketing direc...
Jonathan Bross plans a growing Chicago presence for his five-month old production company Velvet Steamroller. The company has a slate of up to six films for next year, at least ...
The ambitious $25 million initiative to launch a second comedy network from Chicago got the hook when a cable network distributor could not be signed. January 2005 had bee...
Chicago Community Cinema will announce a "relaunch" of the group at its Dec. 7 awards show that will "have a profound impact not only on CCC, but on independent filmmaking...
Local 476 president Mark Hogan reports that 476 business agent Paul Oddo, who was paralyzed as a result of a brain aneurism, "has full use of both legs and arms and he's talking...
Dreaming Tree Films continues its combination of heavy-hitting sponsors and teen apprenticeships with a city-funded feature and a major expansion of its Wrigley-financed "...
Hoffman Estates videogame designer High Voltage Software created two major releases this fall for very different audiences, and is working with Warner Bros. on a famous ch...
CRAIG JAMES PIETROWIAK of Squid Brothers and Scott Preston of American Stonehenge Films are joining forces to co-produce two back-to-back HD features next year. First up in ...
Mexican commercial director Julio Dominguez de los Santos is in post on his first feature, the English-, Spanish- and Yiddish-language HD drama "Hopeless" that shot here t...
FAVORITE SON Steve Poster did double duty when he was in town last week. The American Society of Cinematographers president received the Professional Achievement Award from IIT/...
Three years ago, when the Chicago Public Library announced it was clearing out its collection of 5,000 16mm titles, producer Nancy Watrous wanted to acquire it. After the li...
Punk legend John Doe has made a handshake deal to narrate Michelle De Long's documentary "Man's Dominion: The Complexities and Controversies of Animal Law, Animal Welfare ...
Scott McLain is doubly committed to bringing the story of Vee-Jay Records to large and small screens. The Los Angeles producer is developing two films, a narrative and a ...
Let's take a step back in time in order to bring perspective to Catherine Rategan's interview with Tony Lorenz, founder/president of 12-year old ProActive, Inc., a business comm...
Former "Barney Miller" co-star Max Gail will launch an online video series here with an eye toward getting picked up by a TV network.The two-time Emmy nominee has begun splittin...
When filmmaker Phil Donlon shot his short "A Series of Small Things," the follow up to his acclaimed "Wrestled," here last May, he invited assistant Mark Letchumanan to do...
Paul Oddo, Local 476's business agent is in stable condition after an operation over the weekend at the UCLA Medical Center remove a brain aneurism which had paralyzed his arm a...
SHERRY LANSING departs Paramount Pictures after 12 years in 2005 as a dual result of a management shakeup and the fact the last six pictures made under her tutelage were box off...
Jeff Garlin kept a 14-year-old promise to Pete Biagi that the local DP would shoot the comedian's debut feature.Garlin, a co-star and executive producer of HBO's "Curb Your Enth...
Comcast Cable marshaled its emerging video-on-demand (VOD) platform as part of an integrated, election-themed product launch campaign for Proctor & Gamble's Old Spice Red Zo...
