REELSCREEN: News & Notes – 07/26/04
IN PRODUCTION. “Batman: The Intimidation Game” rolls into town July 26 for three weeks ? “The Amityville Horror,” directed by Andrew Douglas starts shooting
IN PRODUCTION. “Batman: The Intimidation Game” rolls into town July 26 for three weeks ? “The Amityville Horror,” directed by Andrew Douglas starts shooting
Six filmmakers who have created films on Macs and edited on Final Cut Pro will be featured in a new Film Week program of shorts, July
“Monsters and superheroes” are the rage at this year’s Chicago Short Comedy Video and Film Festival, according to fest coordinator Willy Laszlo. “Each and
What made waiting for the phone call from Project Greenlight so nerve wracking for director Scott Smith, who was waiting to hear whether he was still
Local 476 is taking action against Paramount to lift its hiring ban against the two white union members who allegedly perpetrated racial harassment against
MOVIEMAKING AT THE MUSEUM. A tremendous amount of work went into “Action: An Adventure in Moviemaking,” the exhibit at the The Museum of Science
Reveling in a sleazy, DIY iconoclasm, for 30 years Lloyd Kaufman has presided over the oldest continuously operating independent production company and distributor: Troma
The collaborative, fast-filmmaking event is open to filmmakers and actors of all experience and backgrounds.
Fourteen movies were made during last year’s Challenge
Filmmakers Hossein Khandan and Shahin Yazdani followed three Chicago women artists through a day in their lives that was like any other, with one exception ? the three women faced
David Miller of Mindlight Films, who runs the Sangamon St. Studios in the former Orbis facility, is producing “Finding Preet,” an HD romantic comedy
Movieside Film Festival organizer Rusty Nails launches the video release of his debut feature “Acne” with a screening of the film May 15 at Movieside, which
Horror/sci-fi fans will be thrilled to death May 15-16 to see legendary “Night of the Living Dead” writer/director George Romero when he makes a rare Chicago
Project Greenlight entrant Scott Smith’s stomach was tied up in knots all day April 27, the day 250 PGL contestants would be notified of whether they
A giant of the B-movie, Jack Hill, who started his career in the early ’60s at Roger Corman’s legendary American International Pictures, will be in town
It looks like the venerable Chicago Community Film Workshop will have a new home at Kennedy-King community college, reopening in time for summer classes.
Rap superstar Nas stars in director Carl Seaton’s $300,000 feature, “Sacred,” that headlines the 3rd annual Visions Blu Symposium April 24. It sceens with
By Ed M. Koziarski
Even as 2003 saw the lowest level of Hollywood expenditures in Chicago in years, one sector of local production seems to have remained
ARMY ON THE MARCH. Leo Burnett’s Ray Swift produced a five-minute Army Special Forces recruitment video called “Surveillance” and a 60 and 30 that was edited Optimus’ Craig Lewandowski.
Want to win $100 and a case of beer every week for a year? That prize is yours if your commercial for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer is picked by
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”