Veteran actor Pierrino Mascarino plays the title role in "Uncle Nino." December 5 will be an important day for "Uncle Nino's" writer/director Bob Shallcross and producer Davi...
Discovery Health's reality series "Chicago's Lifeline" shoots through next year.Discovery Health Network's award-winning reality series, "Chicago's Lifeline," is augmenting its ...
Walking Shadows partners Kirk Sanders (left) and Jon GauntOn the verge of finishing "Broken Echoes," the film they intend to put them on the map, Walking Shadows Productions is ...
John Crededio wasn't kidding about a lawsuit against the state's representative, Brenda Sexton. He hired one of the city's biggest legal guns to pursue his case. Stev...
TV star and producer Mark Bunting is Orbis' new owner. For the third time in its 20 year history, Orbis Broadcasting has been sold ? this time to an individual with ties to C...
The house lights are out on the what would have been the 16th annual Chicago Film Critics Awards. The critics voted 4-1 to suspend the show in protest of the ban on sending pre...
Essanay's Wayne Kubacki stresses the urgency for the industry to raise its collective voice to help defeat a disastrous tax increase if the County Board passes it at a Dec. 9 vo...
Seemingly since time immemorial, the film industry has requested, begged, petitioned and agitated for relief from the city's burdensome 6% transactional tax on equipment. To no...
The Tape Company founders Bob Daly and Mike Cullen took their company private from publicly traded Daisytek. The Tape Company is again operating as a private company in the h...
Singer, voiceover Joyce (Peaches) Faison won her first Jeff award as best actress in a principal role-musical. Mark Grapey and Joyce (Peaches) Faison, two actors signed with ...
Former Aria co-owner Marie Anderson is now general manager of the new agency. When Ford Models' bookers tried to woo away her models last April, Aria co-owner Marie Anderson ...
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 ...
