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
Infused with a batch of proven new talent from Dallas, Vitamin, the digital media arm of Filmworkers Club, has been relaunched and revitalized with plans for expansion into broadcast
Roger Ebert will make a special guest appearance at the closing ceremonies of the Naperville Film Festival, one of ten film festivals being held in Chicago and Downstate this month.
The celebrity-studded Windy City West party — a reunion for Chicagoans working in Hollywood — returns after a four-year absence and Brenda Sexton is again helming the sold-out Sept. 21
Albert J. Nader was elated as anyone when the regime of Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003. What he could not have known is just what that would mean for
It’s not retirement for casting director Jane Alderman, but more like a transition back to her theatrical acting roots. The trailblazer who put hundreds of Chicago actors on the
PEOPLE WERE STANDING IN LINE in Stamford, Connecticut this week waiting to be admitted to the first live taping of “The Jerry Springer Show,” a fixture in Chicago-originated television
EILEEN WILLENBORG WAS BOWLED OVER at the National AFTRA Convention Aug. 8 when she received a super prestigious Gold Card, the union’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize,
TOM FLETCHER WAS OVERWHELMED by the helpful and sympathetic responses to the alert he Emailed immediately following the theft of $100,000 worth of Fletcher camera equipment from a
TWO OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NAMES in movie criticism — the Chicago Tribune’s Michael Phillips, and the New York Times’ A.O. Scott
The grand prize winner among 13 semi-finalists in the first Chicago Screenwriters Network script contest will go home with a $1,000 check, a trophy and an armload of valuable
One of Chicago’s most durable industry icons will “transition” from a lifetime of operating a film business to doing what he loves most ? teaching up-and-coming filmmakers and producing
“PUBLIC ENEMIES,” with a reported $100 million-budget that provided a bank vault of welcome revenue for Illinois and Wisconsin (although unappreciated by Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle
A WINNING LOTTERY STORY for a change. The Illinois Lottery’s agency, Energy BBDO, actually assigned its new commercial to a 100% bona fide Chicago production company.
Despite having recently cut back staff and office space, 3to1 studio’s Josh Reichlin claims that a philosophy of cheerleading on behalf of their clients is keeping them busier than
It’s official: The actual economic benefits of “Public Enemies” filming in the state were made known today, a full year after production ended.
According to the Illinois
THE HOTTEST TICKETS IN TOWN were those issued by Universal Studios for the Chicago preview of “Public Enemies” that screened in two theatres in the River East 21
