New Spotlight Crew payroll service started off auspiciously last month when it was hired to handle payment for the massive crew covering Barack Obama’s historic speech at Grant Park.
Joseph Finn Auctioneers of Boston will make a return engagement to Chicago ? its third in two years ? to sell off Avenue Edit’s multi-million dollar assets.
“MEALS FOR MONOLOGUES,” Claire Simon Casting’s third annual food drive benefiting a number of charities, is a way to give back to the community “and it’s also a
“Sometimes I worry, should I cry in this scene? Is it too obvious a choice? A wise director told me once, ?It’s not important that I cry ? it’s important
Cash, script consultations, submissions to L.A. agents and managers are some of the great prizes being offered by the Chicago Screenwriting Network’s first screenwriting contest.
“This contest
The Illinois Lottery’s $500,000 holiday TV commercial will be produced by a “collaborative effort” between Illinois-based Gobos Film & Entertainment and the New York production company she represents.
Detroit-area producer Bob Brown is pitching a slate of scripted and unscripted TV series to networks that would be produced in Michigan.
“The television business is consistent
Getting Midwestern voices heard by the Hollywood studio system is the goal of the Chicago Screenwriters Network’s first script contest, with a call for entries Oct. 31-Dec. 31.
POLITICOS WEREN’T ALONE IN THE SPOTLIGHT at the recent Democratic and Republican Conventions.
Producer Carey Lundin’s alter ego, “Citizen Kate,”
THE PRESSURE IS OFF for another six months so the actors’ unions and the ad industry can hammer out a mutually satisfactory Commercials Contract.
The frenzy over the opening of “The Dark Knight,” Warner Bros.’ $150-million blockbuster that filmed in Chicago-as-Gotham City last year, has not been overlooked by the governor’s office.
Picturesque Muskegon on the shores of Lake Michigan and known as a popular summer sports and recreational destination, is about to become the Hollywood of southeastern Michigan.
ACTOR DAVID PASQUESI’S TV SERIES, “Factory,” will bow June 29 on Spike TV, but Pasquesi may not see the premiere episode.
He is filming
Industry insiders and the mainstream media have praised “Filmspotting,” a weekly podcast movie discussion, with NewsReview.com hailing the co-hosts as “film criticism’s best and hippest voices since Gene
A NICE 10TH ANNIVERSARY PRESENT for Darryl S. Duncan’s Gamebeat Studios was landing the scoring assignment for the Illinois Lottery’s Summer Campaign for the second
WE HEAR … and this is only a rumor, hearsay, unconfirmed talk and all that — BUT it’s being bruited about that Springfield might
The photo op the governor’s office has been waiting for, so that Gov. Blagojevich can finally sign the Filmmakers Tax Credit bill, almost happened last Monday.
THE SHOW DEPARTMENT founders/owners president Lee Faclis and vice president Jeff Facklis will host a gala, invitation-only silver anniversary party for clients, colleagues and friends Thursday
The Chicago New Media Summit Launch on June 5 will set the stage for the actual Summit itself, which will be held sometime in early fall, instead of the
Michelle DeLong’s “clan” is one of many companies that’s changing spaces during Chicago’s traditional moving month of May.
On May 31 the three
