Starting next week, you can catch Chicago-made movies on the big screen in parks across the city as part of the 12th Chicago Onscreen film festival. The festival, hosted by the Chicago Park District, ...

A group of Chicago independent filmmakers and production companies say the Illinois Film Office is favoring large Hollywood production studios and that the agency’s actions are causing economic ...

During the first quarter of 2026, Chicago saw seven series lensing in town. Production expenditures in Illinois hit a record ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The city of Chicago has a starring role in "Ironheart." It's a new series streaming now on Disney+. The filmmakers told ABC7 the latest adventures in the Marvel Cinematic Universe ...

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The documentary streaming boom is officially over, according to Academy Award-winning producer and Impact Partners co-founder Geralyn Dreyfous. “The market for streamers is not coming back,” Dreyfous ...

The Picture Start archives, photographed in the attic of Chicago Filmmakers Credit: James Hosking Ben Creech was shuffling around the Chicago Filmmakers attic when he stumbled upon a gem of a film, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A film directed by the late actor Ossie Davis (pictured in 2001) from 1972, "Black Girl," will be shown on closing night of the ...

In a dark, crowded theater at the Davis Theater on Sunday afternoon, Uptown resident Eva Gurtovaia stood up, fighting back tears. Her husband, Enes Abek, a Kurdish asylum seeker from Turkey, was ...

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