With the minutes ticking away to the end of the Illinois legislative session, the state Senate Saturday night passed the wage/tax credit bill that gives Illinois its first ste...
Illinois Tourism's first commercial of 2003 from BBDO directed by Dennis Manarchy shows off seven tourist "must see" destinations, from the Magnificent Mile to the Ga...
Audio engineer Michael Kammes said he's still glowing from his experience as part of a stellar sound team on a $2.2 million PBS documentary airing this month. The first two...
Tadeo Garcia's "Greasepaint" plays June 1 in the Chicago Horror Film Festival. A group of suburban kids finds the body of a dead clown and take it home to pl...
Elizabeth Coffman and Ted Hardin's documentary "One More Mile" plays May 28 at Northwestern University. Ted Hardin and Elizabeth Coffman were documenting n...
It looks like Oprah may not leave her show in 2006 after all. It's been reported she could renew through the 2007-08 season with distributor King World a...
Robin Peters is producing the feature "The Crab Orchard" in Champaign this June.Robin Peters was pitching sci-fi scripts to distributors at the NAB conference in Las Vegas ...
"Lizzie" director Lee Alan is launching Indiefest, the Midwest's first film market. Lee Alan is out to help what he believes is an underserved constituency: independent ...
WHEN THE WHITE SOX didn't want to step up to the plate, Chicago lost a $30 million feature for this year. We heard Sox management sniffed that the club was in the basebal...
Spot producer Darryl Manuel finishing post on a doc about his musician father-in-law.Visions Blu members met the man behind the Foot-Long Hot Dog Inventor last week when v...
You can take this to the bank: Film business historically slows down before Easter and spikes thereafter. In fact, the second quarter of the year has begun with a bang for ...
Director Chris Rubeo (left) on the set of "Hale Bopp."Within months of finishing his first feature, filmmaker Chris Rubeo is at it again. Rubeo, whose “Hale Bopp” wrapped ...
Joe Otting turned his Project Greenlight bid into a Splendid Pictures production deal.Joe Otting lost Project Greenlight and gained his shot at feature directing. Swell’s ...
Chicago Studio Citys John Crededio and Ron DeRosa were among the 200-plus filmmakers who attended the Illinois Production Alliance forum and membership rally at the Hi...
Chevy Chase and Lance Barber star in "Bad Meat". Scott Dikkers and Michael Hirsch knew they wanted a helicopter sequence included in the April pickup shoot for their Chevy Ch...