Former IL&M tech director joins Rethink as producer
INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC’S LOSS is Rethink Studios’ gain. The
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INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC’S LOSS is Rethink Studios’ gain. The
FOX’S EMPIRE STARS Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard will host Taraji and Terrence’s White Hot Holidays — which the network is billing as a music and variety special to
Linas Jodwalis’ new design-driven studio, Almost Gold, is striking gold with its collaboration with two well-established visual media experts, and will open its doors
Thursday night’s Annual AICP Show: “The Art & Technique of the American Commercial,” as it’s formally designated, always bows June
Former Filmworkers’ media specialist Zachary Rudd and actor Clayton
SHARON ZUREK’S COMPELLING DOC, “A Mind in Quicksand — Life with Huntington’s,” produced by her Black Cat Productions, will screen April 9
By the time Sun-Times had headlined Gov. Bruce Rauner’s demand that Cinespace return a $10
All good things that must come to an end, and so Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios, the 26-year old production company and
Optimus assistant editor Aaron Porzel won the Grand Prize for Editing at the 4th annual 2014 AICE Camp Kuleshov Chicago trailer editing contest. The presentation last Wednesday at
RUMORS FLYING all over about the alleged closing here of visual effects Method Studios, a
Given the awards and acclaim heaped on Steve James The Interrupters, Vagabond Audio’s Drew Weir didn’t find it too surprising when the documentary was
DOCUMENTARIAN BILL SIEGEL producer director of the Oscar nominated The Weather Underground is directing the ITVS-backed, Kartemquin-produced documentary The Trials of Muhammad Ali.
Inside what was Essanay Studios in Uptown, actors Charlie Chaplin, Wallace Beery, Gloria Swanson, Ben Turpin and other icons starred in silent one-reelers that were churned out in amazing numbers
TWO SMALL CHICAGO COMPANIES announced last week that they are calling it quits – and the reasons will seem familiar to anyone who has toiled in the trenches of the
Great Britain should be ashamed. The 2012 Summer Olympics host country and London, the host city, were given the marketing opportunity of this or any other lifetime.
They had $40-million to spend
Daufenbach Camera is continuing its efforts to build up Midwest work with a $500,000 investment in expanded space and inventory. “We want to let Hollywood producers know we’ve got all
The news was hardly shocking. To us anyway. Late yesterday, it was revealed — once again — that top executives at cable news channel CNN are wringing their hands in
It’s a fact of life in the performing arts now. Crowds no longer just show up and fill theaters on cue. Ticket prices are higher (in some instances dramatically so),
ROLL THOSE CAMERAS! Television production started last Thursday on Starz’ second season of “Boss” and the pilot of NBC’s “Chicago Fire,” from Dick Wolf Productions, both of them shooting at
The Reel is honored that award-winning indie filmmaker and Columbia College professor Julian Grant will be sharing his valuable insights as well as news about Chicago’s thriving indie
