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House music impresario makes feature debut with vampire girl-gang thriller

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 16, 2004

Handheld Films is breaking from principal photography on its $500,000 sci-fi thriller "Lost Girls" to shop the work in progress at the American Film Market held in L.A. this m...

REELSCREEN: News & Notes

Feb 16, 2004

EQUIPMENT EXPANSION. SMS Equipment Rentals acquired three Panasonic SDX900 camera packages "that are positioned under HD for people who can't handle an HD budget," says owner Ma...

“?Chicago River” film emerges from licensing quagmire for DVD release

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 16, 2004

Producer Steven A. Jones threatened to throw the negative of John McNaughton's horror movie "The Borrower" into the river to force the bond company to pay the back wages owed to...

TV actors Elizabeth Moss, Sam Riley take Q&As at IFP Spirit screenings

Feb 16, 2004

Hardy souls braved freezing temperatures to attend a series of IFP/Midwest-sponsored screenings at Columbia College that presented films in 15 candidates vying for this year's I...

Serious indie filmmakers go to the D.C. Summit to pitch their shows

Feb 16, 2004

Chicago filmmakers were among the nearly 1,000 persons who flocked to Washington D.C. DATE for the 6th annual Real Screen Summit conference, presented by the publisher of "Board...

Chicago companies top competition to win six Mobius prizes, four for TV

Feb 16, 2004

Lapiz Integrated Hispanic Marketing topped the seven Chicago winners who were among the 68 U.S. winners of top prize Golden Statuette winners in the recent 2003 Mobius Advertisi...

L.A. producer’s seminar on how to make quality films on a shoestring

Feb 16, 2004

Veteran L.A. producer-director William Gref? will show clips demonstrating how he created scenes for his low-budget films, vs. how much money Hollywood would have spent for the ...

Up and Down the Avenue – 02/16/04

Feb 16, 2004

JWT wins the $12 million Illinois Tourism account, resigned last year by BBDO. Indie film and spot producer Tim Sabo moved to L.A. to pursue a feature/TV career. SAG/AFTR...

L.A. producer’s seminar on how to make quality films on a shoestring

Feb 15, 2004

Veteran L.A. producer-director William Grefe' will show clips demonstrating how he created scenes for his low-budget films, vs. how much money Hollywood would have spent for the...

Film & Tape invests $750K in newest daVinci, Avid to “support community”

Feb 7, 2004

At a time lately when "pulling back" is more often heard than "capital expansion," Film & Tape Works' announcement of a major equipment investment and a general growth was both ...

Doubling 2003’s $25.6 million for features/TV is this year’s IFO goal

Feb 7, 2004

Feature business last year in Illinois was not only a heckuva lot better than it first appeared ? and it also looks like it's going to significantly improve in 2004. Clockin...

Up and Down the Avenue – 02/07/04

Feb 7, 2004

JWT wins the $12 million Illinois Tourism account, resigned last year by BBDO. Tom Bernadin is Leo Burnett's new president, from Interpublic's Lowe's/New York -- the first n...

County won’t enact lease, sale taxes

Feb 7, 2004

Good news for the film industry, baaad news for smokers. The good news: The Cook County Board of Commissioners Feb. 3 voted not to enact any type of lease tax, or to incre...

Hugos to be SRO when it honors Joe Pykta at TV/spot festival March 11

Feb 7, 2004

Joe Pytka needs no introduction. The King of Commercials ? the director who's made billions of dollars for the biggest advertisers in the world, the winner of every conceivable...

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