Michigan doubles film grant cap to $50 million for 2013
Gov. Rick Snyder has upped Michigan’s film grant money to $50 million, from the present $25 million that all but killed what had been one of the biggest US film
Gov. Rick Snyder has upped Michigan’s film grant money to $50 million, from the present $25 million that all but killed what had been one of the biggest US film
The news couldn’t have been more devastating. At 10:30 Tuesday morning DraftFCB/Chicago president Michael Fassnacht picked up his phone and discovered MillerCoors chief marketing officer Andy England was on the
STEPPENWOLF THEATRE is physically expanding with the acquisition of the Ethan Allen furniture store next door to their current building on Halsted St.<!-- AddThis Advanced
Raleigh Studios in Pontiac, Michigan is expected to default on $18 million in state issued bonds that were part of the financing for the $80 million studio complex that opened
ILLINOIS RULES! To make up for painful omissions in Best Location lists compiled throughout the year, venerable international locations publication P3 Update Magazine named Illinois #2
McGarryBowen’s new business bonanza continued Wednesday. The agency’s New York office won the high-profile and prestigious United Airlines advertising account. According to a United spokesman, MB’s Chicago office, the agency’s
A REASON WHY Illinois loves those big Hollywood films that show up every year or so. The Michael Bay-directed Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon, dropped $24 million here last
Michigan film workers will rally Sunday, April 17, for a non-stop, 15 hour webathon to raise money to fund a TV spot campaign, in an effort to influence the legislature
WHILE A SECOND SEASON of ABC’s “Detroit 1-8-7” won’t be decided until May, “Hung” – the HBO series set in Metro Detroit – will be around for another season, thanks
The Michigan Film Office seems to be denying film incentive applications in order to stretch Gov. Rick Snyder’s proposed $25 million film cap for movies throughout the rest of the
IN WEST MICHIGAN, Ryan Phillippe and Jenna Dewan joined Bruce Willis, Paul Walker and 50 Cent as stars of the action heist film, “Set Up,” shooting in and
The pan-European team behind Great River Productions, LLC has set up shop in Rock Island to produce its $15 million 3D motion capture fantasy feature, “Troll: Tale of a
Filmworkers Club is getting set for the new world of stereoscopic 3D with a multi-million investment in four top-of-the-line FilmLight Baselight color grading systems with S-3D capability.
Michigan Film Office director Carrie Jones, 34, hadn’t previously worked in arts or entertainment, but when the film incentives were created, “I knew that it was something I wanted to
Construction resumed on the Museum of Broadcast Communications’ unfinished, 62,000-sq. ft. building at 360 N. State, after four years of broken promises and starts and stops on the long-awaited building.
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Michigan film spending jumped to $214 million in 2009. More than 130 applications for movie and TV show projects were approved for the incentives, and 84 projects finished
L.A.-based Omar McClinton embarks this month on his first animated feature as writer/director, the $5 million local production “Stork.”
McClinton, a native Chicagoan, is a
The bitterness Museum of Broadcast Communications president/CEOBruce Dumont felt over ex-governor Rod Blagojevich’s broken promise to help fund a new home for the Museum of Broadcast Communications was washed
Raleigh Michigan Studios, formerly known as the Motown Motion Picture Studios, has obtained the $75.8 million in financing it needs to convert the idled General Motors plant in Pontiac into