Christian producer converts to new media
Christian TV producer Total Living Network, which sold its Aurora studio complex in a leaseback deal last December, is aggressively retooling for a transition to producing short-form content for the
Christian TV producer Total Living Network, which sold its Aurora studio complex in a leaseback deal last December, is aggressively retooling for a transition to producing short-form content for the
Filmmaker, playwright and theater director Stephen Cone returns to his native South Carolina this July to make his semiautobiographical third feature, “The Wise Kids.”
The son of
It looks like the 385,000-sq. ft. Michigan Motion Picture Studios — the former GM Pontiac plant — is finally coming to life. County officials have stated the sale
Before he wrote “The Merry Gentleman,” Ron Lazzeretti wrote and directed four 20-minute films that always he had in mind to marry them with a thematic thread that links them
Headlining IFC/Chicago’s Producers Series May 1-2 is Philadelphia filmmaker Lance Weiler, an innovator in, and advocate of transmedia, an extension of storytelling across multiple platforms that encourages audiences to build
PILOT UPDATES. Networks this week began screening and evaluating 68 pilots that were shot during the first quarter for possible prime-time fall series slots. Here’s
Director David J. Miller’s “for mature audiences” webisode series, “Assisted Living,” has reached a major milestone with the Tuesday airing of the show’s 40th episode and a Season 6 renewal
The Tuesday, May 18 auction of Film & Tape Works will include the auctioning one of the 30-year old company’s most important asset: its client list.
A NEW CHIEF CREATIVE FOR DDB after a two year search appears to be Ewan Paterson, 42, ECD at London’s Cemmow Horby Inge & Partners.
One way to build an indigenous film industry is to educate people who can help make it happen. In Chicago that would be the folks on LaSalle Street.
After 30 years in business, Film & Tape Works has become the latest production company to fall victim to the economy and changing technology and closed its doors March 31.
It looks like HD has arrived at the consumer home entertainment level. Sears is now selling Samsung 3D television sets, although there are no 3D movies on DVD or shows
Wal-mart and Procter & Gamble are partnering in an initiative to produce “family friendly” made-for-TV movies which gives new meaning to branded entertainment.
Their program, “Secrets of
Billy Federighi and Chris Storer grew up making short films together. They moved to L.A. eight years ago, where Federighi became a rising commercial director.
Jerry Bryant’s “JBTV” music show will give the home of the world’s largest music festival something to remember when Bryant brings 28 of the best Chicago rock, punk and hip
HUNGRY MAN of New York, famous for its creative directors and take on comedy commercials, has won the Commitment to Excellence Award for TV commercials from the 2010
Michigan’s film incentives, one of the five top movie-making states, boosted film revenues from $125 million in 2008 to an estimated $223.6 million in 2009, according to the just-released 2009
Midwinter Studios, financial expert Brett D. Thompson’s multimedia production company, has gotten off to an auspicious start.
Since its debut last August, Midwinter’s inaugural feature, “The Scenesters,”
WELCOME BACK, ROGER! It looks like Roger Ebert is returning to television with a new syndicated movie review show from Chicago, expected to be taped
Curtis Jackson, a.k.a. 50 Cent, teams up with prodigious producer (57 films, seven currently in production) Randall Emmett for their fourth movie together, to be shot in Grand Rapids in