Chicago’s tech industry gets mayoral boost
Chicago’s technology industry got a big boost recently when Mayor Daley announced the formation of the Mayor’s Committee on Technology Infrastructure consisting of 20 respected Chicago tech leaders.
Chicago’s technology industry got a big boost recently when Mayor Daley announced the formation of the Mayor’s Committee on Technology Infrastructure consisting of 20 respected Chicago tech leaders.
Reaves producing urban Christian drama based on Las Vegas minister C. Regi Rodgers’s memoir
Parris Reaves of HAWKfilmz Enterprize, who produced the recent “Ran$sum Games,”
Lansing — Ken Droz, communications consultant for the Michigan Film Office, who has been the public face of Michigan’s explosive film production since the incentives were passed in 2008, will
OCTOBER WILL BE HERE quicker than we can say “Chicago International Film Festival.” The 46th annual event Oct. 7-21 will host 150 important films from all over
Midway Films, the team behind the 2007 Slamdance-selected meta-noir “Crime Fiction,” are back with the caper movie “Mulligan,” shooting in Chicago and Lake Geneva now through Aug. 28.
Rep Liz Laine’s reputation preceded her when she received a call out of the blue from Scott Dikkers, the multi-talented filmmaker, director, cartoonist, most famously associated with “The Onion” and
WHAT AN UNEXPECTEDLY NICE GESTURE. In surely what’s got to be a first in the 35-year annals of Hollywood-in-Chicago entertainment production, departing director Ron Howard, stars
With seven features currently in production, seven more upcoming and 16 films wrapped this year, the Michigan Film Office expects 2010 to be a booming film production year.
THE ACTION COMEDY, “30 Minutes or Less,” which started shooting in Grand Rapids last week through October, is said to be the biggest movie project ever shot
IN THE MIDDLE EAST for three weeks is documentarian Malachi Leopold of Left Brain/Right Brain Productions. He is visiting Israel, the West Bank and Gaza
ONE AT OPTIMUS for the fourth year is the official partner of the Pitchfork Music Festival, showcasing more than 40 of the best independent bands and artists at
VINCE LAWRENCE’S Slang Music has added another service — creating iPhone apps under a new company, iLL Concepts, LLC, with partners Thomas Beckmann and Jack Eisenberg. First up
Possibly the first comedy to shoot anywhere in stereoscopic 3D will be directed by Hollywood executive turned Columbia College professor this July in Chicago.
Kevin Cooper makes
“1700% Project: Mistaken for Muslim,” a video adapted by Anida Yoeu Ali from her own performance and poem, not only won the $20,000 grand prize but also the $5,000
With her June 30 retirement nearing, Michigan Film Office, Janet Lockwood can finally reveal her secret.
Although she’s been the face of Michigan film
“TRANSFORMERS 3” IN 3D? That’s what director Michael Bay and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura told USA Today — that they will shoot in 3D
COMMA MUSIC was the only Chicago honoree among the hundreds of bi-coastal commercial companies that swept the 19th annual AICP Show June 8 held annually at New
MOVIE AND TELEVISION STARS will abound this month as they headline gala fund-raisers to support the city’s culturally important visual arts organizations.
“HANNAH FREE,” director Wendy Jo Carlton’s feature adapted by Claudia Allen from Allen’s play, is out on DVD June 1 from Wolf Releasing. Sharon Gless (“Cagney and Lacey”) stars
HERE’S WHERE ALL THE MONEY WENT. Remember our outrage about a year ago when the Chicago 2016 Olympic went on a shooting spree to make visual presentations to