What started out as a production company in a big empty space, with a single director and executive producer and a fax machine as its only business machine, and grew into one of the biggest tabletop studios in the business, announces its first major changes in nearly a decade.
With Sonixphere on the fast track to expansion – opening a branch in another city being a definite option – it was a natural for the 20 month old company to add Dave Chudy as business development director.
With the addition of Denis Leary’s cable comedy “Sirens,” a record total of six TV shows will shoot in Chicago this year (so far), a business bonanza Local 476 president Brad Matthys calls “incredible!”
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AICE AWARDS SHOW IS SRO tonight at the Museum of Broadcast Communications as the capacity sale of 540 tickets was reached Tuesday. Special guest of honor is former editor and S
SHOOTING IS UNDERWAY on first-time filmmaker/actress Allie Loukas’ low-budget feature, Like Father, Like Daughter, filming which shot in Lake Forest and Waukegan and moves to Chicago locations through May 27.
Written and directed by Loukas, the story is about a
Chicago’s resident heavy metal comrades, Dan Donegan and Mike Wengren of multi-platinum band Disturbed, shot a new music video for their band “Fight or Flight,” a side project with singer Dan Chandler of Evans Blue.
Besides 2013 being the year of Chicago’s major breakthrough as a favored location for Hollywood entertainment projects and a giant film spend increase pouring into the local economy — this summer also will mark the year of the biggest stage expansion ever.
Both Cinespace Studios and Chicago Studio City are gearing up for expansion to accommodate the anticipated new bus
Chicago has a large nationally acclaimed talent community, with 6,000 members of SAG AFTRA alone and yet, with the exception of film festivals and Chicago’s own Midwest Independent, there’s no focal place where a local actor’s performance can gain recognition.
With five high-profile network TV shows set for filming here, alongside three mega-budget features, so far, 2013 should be the state’s highest grossing year ever – an estimated $225 million — in its nearly 40 years of hosting Hollywood entertainment projects.
It was only a matter of time. Filmworkers Astro Lab, one of only five remaining independent film processing labs in the entire country, has closed its doors, after more than 50 years — the last 12 as part of Filmworkers Club services to the local industry.
The lab’s last run of 35
Robert Redford and his Sundance Productions will produce an eight-part unscripted series about Chicago that examines the challenges the quintessential American city faces as it tries to rebuild from the consequences of the recent economic crisis.
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