Screenwriter Ken Rance to pick winning script
Screenwriter Ken Rance, co-writer of the 2009 film “New in Town,” starring Renee Zellweger and Harry Connick, Jr., will be the celebrity judge who will pick the grand prize winner
Screenwriter Ken Rance, co-writer of the 2009 film “New in Town,” starring Renee Zellweger and Harry Connick, Jr., will be the celebrity judge who will pick the grand prize winner
Winning advertising competitions are so indispensable to the advertising business that agencies have been known to go to extreme measures to attempt to win those shiny gold trophies at prestigious
Writer/director Jameel Khan’s “The Strip,” the $1.2 million independent comedy starring Dave Foley that shot here in 2006, is the first Chicago film to sign with Truly Indie, an
While it was believed the owner of three Toronto movie studios was also the owner of an $80 million movie studio for Chicago, it turns out that a local group
Over the 25 years Oprah has broadcast her daily talk show from Chicago, it was inevitable that one day she would move the show to Los Angeles.
Construction is underway to convert a 330,000-sq. ft warehouse into the first of what could be seven to soundstages for Chicago Film Studios, on the 50 acre Ryerson Steel
Both New York state’s 30% tax incentives and New York City’s “Made in NY” 5% tax credit are in trouble, and added to that is a proposal to charge the
First it was Venetian night that got sunk in a money-saving effort on the city’s part to cut costs to shore up a $520 million budget shortfall for 2010.
If you are part of Generation Y, a.k.a. the Millennials, the Echo Boomers and the Nintendo Generation, one of the best places for you to work is Euro RSCG
COMEDIAN TOM DREESEN will MC the Oct. 27 invitation-only NBC premiere of the TV special shot by Resolution Digital Studios at the recent Sweet Home Illinois party, hosted
Bob Hudgins, the well liked and effective former IFO deputy film commissioner who heads the Austin, Texas office, was publicly approving of the forthcoming transfer of the Dallas Film Commission
Halloween and Atomic Pictures’ annual party, to be held Oct. 31, go together like Freddy Kruger and Elm Street.
What started 24 years ago as a
The Brazilian city has formed a new film commission, hired a longtime movie industry pro to head it and set an ambitious first goal: landing the next Woody Allen flick
Tony Izzo, a film pioneer who ascended from film lab intern to one of the giants in the postproduction business, died from cancer complications Sept. 27 at Hinsdale Hospital, with
COMEDIAN TOM DRESSEN will MC the Oct. 27 invitation-only NBC premiere of the TV special, “The Heart of Hollywood: The Chicago Link,” shot by RDS at the recent
JOYCE KILBURG, the Illinois Film Office’s diversity officer, was seriously injured Wednesday night when the taxi she was riding crashed into a tree. She was heading home
NOT EVERYONE gets the pleasure and satisfaction of working with their mother, but Oscar winner Virginia Madsen teamed up with her filmmaker mom, Elaine
“BLUEGRASS RUN,” the Trinity Angels Production of a comedy adventure feature set in Chicago and the horse country of Kentucky, recently shot key Chicago scenes at Loop locations
Six Columbia College alums will proudly walk the red carpet Saturday night when their ambitious first feature premieres at the Chicago International Film Festival.
Hollywood’s gold rush to Iowa blew up in the wake of a scandal late last week when Gov. Chet Culver fired Iowa Film Office director Tom Wheeler and suspended