Improv actor Alex Beh directs his first feature here
L.A.-based “Funny or Die” website regular and Winnetka native Alex Beh is back in town as writer, director and star of his debut feature Warren.
The coming-of-age love story shoots
L.A.-based “Funny or Die” website regular and Winnetka native Alex Beh is back in town as writer, director and star of his debut feature Warren.
The coming-of-age love story shoots
As the Onion media empire relocates its headquarters from New York to Chicago in July, it arrives bearing gifts: three new webisode series. They’ve been filming at Foundation Content and
THE GUEST LIST for the 25th Windy West Party in L.A., bringing together Chicagoans in the Hollywood industry and Chicagoans flying in for the occasion, is growing longer as we
We fear it is going to be a very long election year indeed for TV viewers who opt to turn to CNN to follow the many presidential primaries and other
ACTOR MICHAEL SHANNON’S manager Byron Wetzel has optioned Jim Sikora’s script for I’ll Die Tomorrow as a star vehicle for the Boardwalk Empire villain, Oscar nominee
Director Sean Patrick Fahey, of hybrid production studio Odd Machine, will direct and co-produce “Nine Twelve,” an indie feature which explores the lives of three people who must confront
The ownership of Teletech Video has passed from the founding family to three energetic employees, who are expanding HD production-to-distribution capabilities and reopening in new “fun,
After an intense international search Filmworkers Club has hired super star colorist Brian “Crash” Carlucci, whose work for top agencies, A-list directors and projects in all genres spans
You really had to be there — to appreciate fully the new documentary film about fallen nightclub magnate Peter Gatien titled “Limelight, the Rise and Fall of New York’s
Who doesn’t love a big idea? It’s always been all the buzz in the advertising industry, even if really big ideas have been in terribly short supply in recent years.
That
THE COMEBACK of commercial production business this past year is a sure signal that the economy is rebounding, as production expenditures are up by 5% and nearly back to 2008
“SUPERMAN: MAN OF STEEL” lands in Chicago in early summer for a reported 12 weeks of prep and 12 weeks of filming. The Warner Bros. blockbuster-budgeted adventure/fantasy stars handsome, young Brit
Twelve years after Jim Sikora shot his film adaptation of Adam Langer’s play “The Critics,” the caustic satire of theatre and the people who cover it finally sees the light
GIVEN THE TREMENDOUS SUCCESS of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” it comes as no surprise that the Chicago equivalent of the Prohibition era is being adapted as a TV series.
Phil Vischer, the creator of “VeggieTales,” has been reborn, in a sense, by returning to the business of creating whimsical characters who tell Bible tales to children.
“DuMONT’S HALL OF SHAME” headlined an expensive, full-page Tribune ad last week, protesting the induction of far-right broadcaster James Dobson of “Focus on the Family” into
THE ONE SHOW of great advertising from New York’s One Club, which judged 18,000 entries from 50 countries, has made its annual pilgrimage to Chicago
WHO THEY ARE: Founders of two-year-old, Evanston-based Stone Face Productions, director John Champion and writer Jeff Kehe produce the webTV “BIF! BAM! POW! WOW!” at www.bifbampowwow.tv.
Chicago Cinema Forum is a new group made up of ambitious young cinephiles who aim to bring Chicagoans rare films, along with the chance to talk about them with film
HANK NEUBERGER, Chicago’s sound guru, is currently in Palm Springs where he will head a 90-member crew, including lots of Chicago guys, to produce a three day