Complications from West Nile disease caused the death of Stewart Talent's film/TV director Maureen Brookman Nov. 4. Mrs. Brookman contracted the disease 13 months ago when a mo...
The Dept. of Homeland Security isn't keeping it a secret that it's recruiting new agents for the U.S. Secret Service. Latinos are the targets in four, national 30-sec...
Animatics, art direction, illustrations and storyboards are some of the 22 creative categories. Music composer Gary Fry hasn't disappeared from the business. He and many oth...
BURRELL NAMES BROADCAST HEAD. Burrell promoted Debbie Amsden to director of broadcast production, a position vacant since Sharon Kimbrough left the company earlier this year. ...
Producers of "Weatherman," the Nicolas Cage feature, scouted the city for a full week with the expectation of filming here in late winter. IPA's first Membership Meeting tak...
Sean Long's Tupac Shakur documentary plays Nov. 14 at the Visions Blu Film Symposium. Karon Hamlet wants to improve your bottom line. Visions Blu, her year-and-a-half ol...
Joel Paul Reisig in the collaborative improvisational feature "The Cliffhanger," premiering Nov. 17When "The Cliffhanger" screens Nov. 17 at the Lakeshore Theater, it will be mo...
Burt Reynolds is featured in Mark Newbauer's $3.1 million comedy.Mark Newbauer has big plans for his fish story.In the space of five years, "Fish in a Barrel," a script Newbauer...
Katrina Lenk stars in "The Acedia Thing" by Production Fund winner Anthony Collamati.Anthony Collamati had just wrapped post on his debut feature "The Acedia Thing" when he got ...
IFO Director Brenda Sexton John Crededio may sue the state of Illinois over the remarks its representative, IFO director Brenda Sexton, made at the recent IFP Filmmakers Conf...
"You've Gotta KFC What's Cookin'" is the tagline of the first two new spots FCB produced for client $200 million-billing client KFC. Director was Jonathan David ...
VeggieTales' characters are now owned by Classic Media LLC of New York. Big Idea's annual revenue was about $40 million in 2001 and 2002, but the Lombard-based Christian anim...
Syd Field holds two writing seminars and a workshop at ShowBiz Expo. Syd Field will give his first Chicago seminar in 20 years. What took so long for him to return? Up unti...
With Noreen Szeluga's departure from Big Deahl, Rosemary and David Deahl and Dennis Manarchy and Dan Lundmark are exploring "possible synergy" between the two companies, says Lu...
Zacuto Films partner Jens Bogehegn shot AMC interstices on HD. Last year, American Movie Classics cable channel filmed its "People Talk About Movies" interstices in New Y...
Put your roller skates, get out your notepads and party clothes for the busiest, most informative and social November we've seen in years. See details in Calendar. NOV. 6-9:...
Daniel J. Travanti stars in "Design," Traveller Jones' debut feature airing on Showtime. Indie filmmakers often struggle for distribution of one film. Partners (and cousins)...
Cineme, the first Chicago International Animation Festival takes place Nov. 6-9 with something for everyone in the technologically expanding field of animation at the Biogra...
TOURISM NARROWS AGENCY CHOICES. The local branches of three foreign-owned ad agencies got the nod from the Illinois Dept. of Commerce and Economic Opportunity as finalists for t...
Following months of negotiations, the Chicago-made dot-com mockumentary "Dot" has its television premiere Sunday, Nov. 2 on the Showtime Network.The film, by Sneaky Kings Produc...
