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Caped protector “Batman” flies into city with famous friends this summer

Mar 10, 2004

The city will be replete with A-list actors when the fifth in the "Batman" series films in Chicago starting in late July and running through August. "Batman Begins" is direc...

Ted Allen turns talents to theatre

Mar 10, 2004

Ted Allen, the food and wine specialist from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," is Chicago's newest TV star. Despite the recognition he's found on Bravo/NBC, he still make...

Seminar series helps indie producers

Mar 10, 2004

The business of indie film production is revealed in the popular annual "From Concept to Distribution" series, conducted by savvy entertainment attorneys Bob Labate and Tim Kell...

Smith selling Art Deco poster series

Mar 10, 2004

Scott Smith's collection of 40 South Shore Railroad 1920s posters go on sale March 12 at August House Studio, 2113 W Roscoe. The colorful posters had decorated the walls of Smi...

L.A. educational producer seeks crew and talent for “Box Time” shoot here

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 8, 2004

Los Angeles-based Box Time Entertainment plans to hire 15-20 local crew and several child and adult actors this May for the production of the fifth episode in their childr...

Doc celebrates blind athletes as they prepare for world championships

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 8, 2004

Donnie Eichar interviewed former U.S. senator Paul Simon last December to mark the opening of the Jeanne and Paul Simon Braille Book Collection at the Skokie Public Librar...

“Caged” current project for producers of film sold to New Def Filmmakers

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 8, 2004

With their debut feature in post-production with the Simmons Lathan Media Group, the filmmakers of "Player in Training" are gearing up for their next production, "Caged."N...

Media Process Group buys larger office/condo, moves in October

Mar 8, 2004

After 14 years renting a loft office in River West, Media Process Group will own its space when it moves into a loft condo at 1327 W. Washington Blvd. next October. Bob...

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Doc on homeless premieres at Doc Fest

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 8, 2004

At a Salvation Army in Los Angeles' gritty Nickel District, local production designer Wesley Tabayoyong interviewed more than 30 homeless people about the contents of thei...

Second City actors star in new video thriller from Sorelosers Productions

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 8, 2004

Richard T. Celenza Jr. grew up in a family of gamblers. As a young man he ran small-time card games and worked as a bookie "before the Internet took over the industry," h...

Mainstream market is aim of Christian filmmaker’s apocalyptic thriller in 24P

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 24, 2004

Armed with a shoestring budget, a 24P DV camera and a vision of the world's end, Nathyn Brendan Masters is out to make a Christian, low-budget answer to "The Matrix."The stone-f...

Lesbian military drama script based on true story set for reading in L.A.

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 24, 2004

Catherine Crouch is set to follow up her debut feature, "Stray Dogs," with the lesbian military drama "Half Life."Set during the first Gulf War, "Half Life" is a love stor...

Investors end High Road Productions, sell property; Lazarevich goes solo

Feb 24, 2004

For more than 20 years, world-class tabletop shooter Peter Elliott operated out of a studio he owned that was cater-cornered from Harpo Studios on W. Washington Blvd. The singl...

TMK embarks on huge 20-month doc on global Alzheimer’s perspective

Feb 24, 2004

Producer Ted Kay of Northfield-based TMK Productions has embarked on "the hugest project" of his 20-year career ? a documentary on a global perspective of Alzheimer's disease, o...

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