Gregory Edwards shoots his debut feature "Sullivan" this June.Gregory Edwards is out to tell a quintessential Chicago story."For me, Chicago is about buildings and large cons...
Bix Pix Entertainment's "Doh Doh Island" video hit stores June 1. Starting June 1, Toys ?R' Us stores across the country begin stocking "Doh Doh Island," a 23-minute ...
Ray Sheehan is searching for Chicago singles with photogenic lives."We go out and look for people who have visual jobs or hobbies or do volunteer work that's very visual," sai...
Deaf Dog's new Focusrite console is one of only eight in the worldJohn Ovnik of Deaf Dog Music is on track to realize his longtime vision of expanding the spot music house ...
By Ruth L Ratny Cable guru Ray Solley once produced for Ch. 11. One of the cable networks has a slightly bitter underbelly to its shows and considers every film it r...
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 ...