FLYING HIGH. IFO director Brenda Sexton returns from her sixth L.A. trip in 11 months reporting tremendous interest" in the wage tax credit bill from meetings set up by MPAA lob...
Women in the Director's Chair opens its 23rd annual film festival on March 13 with a reception honoring director Catherine Hardwicke and a screening of her acclaimed indie featu...
When Jeff Santo's 86-minute documentary about his father Ron Santo ended during a sneak preview at a Cubs convention at the Hilton in January, the SRO crowd of more than 1,000 g...
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, 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...