Events uptempo during the second half of April (accelerated no doubt by Mars and Mercury, planets of creativity and communications going direct) also gives us a choice of more than one
“PLAYBOY,” THE NBC PILOT, about the start of the Playboy Clubs in Chicago, about the opening of the first Playboy Club in Chicago in 1963 (at the site
ANOTHER TV SERIES is set in Chicago but, like Shameless, The Good Wife and Mike and Molly, is not being filmed in Chicago. The location is Toronto, which all too
TAKING OVER THE REINS of the Independent Feature Project, Chicago’s 25-year old hub of indie filmmaking is Christy LeMaster, who has run IFP’s recent and successful
MIKE SCHMIEDELER, an 11-year Towers Productions’ veteran, was promoted to VP/development and executive producer, from managing director.
Earlier, he’d been Towers’
KEVIN COOPER’S 3D dog comedy, “Shakey,” which starts shooting this month in the western suburbs, signed lead actors Steve Guttenberg (“Police Academy”), Beverly D’Angelo of the National Lampoon’s Vacation series)
JUAN FRAUSTO’S hip-hop vampire comedy “Get Pony Boy” has its theatrical premiere June 8 at the Historic Portage Theatre, after debuting in April at the Chicago Latino International Film Festival.
DALIA TAPIA is weeks away from closing a deal for domestic DVD distribution of her debut feature “Buscando a Leti” (“In Search of Leti”).
A Pilsen school
CRAIG JAMES PIETROWIAK of Squid Brothers and Scott Preston of American Stonehenge Films are joining forces to co-produce two back-to-back HD features next year.
First up
After garnering a strong response at the Tribeca, UrbanWorld and New York Latino International film festivals, Marisol Torres’ debut feature “Boricua” has its first
Chicago’s three Tony Award winning theatre companies are ramping up the star power for the opening shows of the season. The smallest of the
A Chicago-made indie film screened at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival last week. “Boricua,” a story about a diverse array of characters living in
HIGH POWERED COO TO DK. New COO at Digital Kitchen is Bruce Hanson, formerly in sales and business development at PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Nicholas Paul heads the Chicago office of FCB’s new 361 Degrees Sports & Event Marketing division. A staff of ultimately 12 will work on sports and sponsorship
