Sarofsky hires EP Steven Anderson to boost spot work
Erin Sarofsky’s five-year old design, concept and production company — the only one in Chicago that Hollywood calls on to create titles for
Erin Sarofsky’s five-year old design, concept and production company — the only one in Chicago that Hollywood calls on to create titles for
OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMMAKER Tod Lending’s documentary, All the Difference, five years in the making, has received a $1.1 million grant
By midpoint this year, Chicago production had come close to the number of shooting days it had enjoyed during 2013’s record-breaking run,
Last Friday, studio owner/executive creative director Erin Sarofsky of eponymous Sarofsky held a party to celebrate the theatrical release of Disney/Marvel’s “<a
DIRECTOR JOHN McNAUGHTON is back in the horror film business with The Harvest, “the first horror script I’ve been
Chicago production had its busiest year ever in 2012. A total of 406 total projects across all visual media shot 1,808 days. This is up 45%, when 391 projects shot
CUTTERS HALLOWEEN PARTY Thursday night, one of the two biggest, must-attend parties of the year (along with AICP’s big night Nov. 15) expects a record-breaking 800 guests – 90% of
PAIR OF FORMER CRC STAFFERS have teamed up to form the new music company Diplomacy Music. They are Mike Middleton, a former CRC producer who produced for Frayne
Let the Games begin. Starting tomorrow, most of the world’s sports enthusiasts (as well as many who have no particular interest in athletics) will turn their attention to London, England,
Here for the sixth consecutive year is ReelChicago’s exclusive and roundup of entertainment and commercial production activity for the previous year, based on official Chicago Film Office reports.
On the
Since their soft launch three months ago, Go Locations Services and Go Rentals has serviced Shameless, The Playboy Club, Man of Steel, and more than 50 commercials in
A GUESSTIMATED 135 INDIVIDUALS went home with golden Emmy statuettes last Sunday, Nov. 6, at the 53rd annual Emmy Awards, the winners in more than 60 broadcast categories. About 30
CNGM PICTURES, the cinematic collective that makes films with character-driven stories, holds its “Hats Off to Characters” fund-raiser Saturday, Nov. 12, where guests are invited to wear personality-expressive
JOB OFFERS KEEP POURING IN for Roscor’s former skilled employees, 100 of whom were suddenly and sadly terminated from the 35-year old Mt. Prospect-based AV equipment company on Black Friday,
ONE AT OPTIMUS has expanded its Chicago-Santa Monica directorial roster with the addition of L.A.-based Jim Matlosz, who will focus on sports and product/tabletop, and Ryan Bosworth, who has a
The timing couldn’t be worse. The much-anticipated Cinespace Chicago film studio was into construction on the first phase of the soundstages when the House rushed to pass Senate Bill 4
PRODUCERS OF “THE BOSS” correctly chose Chicago over Pittsburgh for the location of the 8-episode series starring Kelsey Grammer as a Chicago mayor who faces the news he’s developed a
ANOTHER TV SERIES is set in Chicago but, like Shameless, The Good Wife and Mike and Molly, is not being filmed in Chicago. The location is Toronto, which all too
“Salvaging,” the short film that won IFP’s 2010 Production Fund Competition, was written and directed by Joe Lyons, who works as a Local 476 union electrician and grip.
“I’ve always wanted
The timing was unfortunate but the blizzard made cancellation Wednesday of an advance screening of “The Chicago Code’s” first episode inevitable.
The screening would’ve been held at the Kerosotes Icon theatre