Mike Goodridge Steps Down From International Film Festival & Awards Macao

Wednesday night belonged to mysterious musicians and first responders as The Masked Singer topped the evening’s demo ratings and Chicago Fire walked away with the most viewers.

FX’s comedy pilot  from FX Productions received a full series order set to premiere in 2022. Shameless star Jeremy Allen White was previously announced as the lead of the half-hour comedy about a young chef who returns to Chicago to run the family restaurant.

We have the first back orders for new fall 2021 series and they have gone to CBS’ NCIS: Hawai’i and FBI: International. The breakout success of the two shows, which have been among the bright spots so far this season, underscores the value of popular procedural drama franchises as arguably the best — and safest — bets on broadcast TV these days with three NCIS, three Chicago, three FBI, two 9-1-1 and two (soon to be three) Law & Order series all doing well.

Wen Hsu Despite being shrouded in the shadow of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Taiwan’s film industry has continued to thrive in 2021. This is thanks to precautions being taken on a local level, enabling a diverse array of new works to blossom.The industry’s continued productivity is evident in the number of Taiwanese films that are screening at this year’s now-underway Busan International Film Festival.

Clayton Davis Audrey Diwan’s “Happening,” one of the three shortlisted films to represent France for the upcoming 94th Academy Awards, will make its North American premiere at the Chicago Film Festival as part of the Global Currants and Women in Cinema program on Saturday, Oct.

Focus Features has set a moderate release for The Outfit on Feb. 25, 2022.

With three days of playback factored in Premiere Week rankings have shifted a bit, with a number of popular returning series getting strong lifts.

Karen Idelson Chicago is an entertainment town, famed for improv comedy, music and groundbreaking theater. It’s also home to first-class schools that have become important feeders for the film industry.Among them is DePaul University, founded in 1898 to serve the children of the industrious immigrants who had poured into Chicago.

Machine Gun Kelly is insisting that he wasn’t booed by the majority of the crowd during his performance at Louder Than Life Festival in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday. 

Jamie Lang Isabelle Huppert (“The Lacemaker,” “The Piano Teacher”) has been appointed as the president of the jury that will decide the competition winners at the Tokyo International Film Festival (Oct. 30-Nov.

Competition was the name of the game on Wednesday as the season premieres  of Survivor and The Masked Singer tied to top primetime ratings.

Japan and Taiwan.The CSO said Muti's 2022-23 season will include performances of Beethoven's “Missa Solemnic (Solemn Mass)” in June 2023 and the world premiere of a work commissioned by the CSO from Jessie Montgomery.Muti was to conduct the CSO's season-opening performance on Thursday night in their first performance together since February 2020, a gap caused by the pandemic.

EXCLUSIVE: The documentary community, a loose assemblage of independent creatives under the best of circumstances, has labored under the absence of in-person gatherings during the pandemic. For well over a year, most all-documentary festivals have been forced to go virtual, hardly a respite for filmmakers inured to hermitry.

Dina Fox on NBC’s “Superstore” (2015-21), does a complete 360 with Chicago native Diane, a hard-partying woman of a certain age who lives in Wrigleyville, works in a hair salon and hasn’t quite outgrown her ’80s-era ways.

Machine Gun Kelly has hit out at Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor after he was recently criticised for switching genres again.Kelly dissed Taylor at Riot Fest in Chicago over the weekend, at which both artists appeared.It comes after Taylor appeared to speak about Kelly in a recent interview with Cutter’s Rockcast even though he didn’t name him directly, saying: “I hate all new rock for the most part.

Kanye West has released a music video for his track ’24’, taken from his recent album ‘DONDA’.Directed by Nick Knight, the video begins with footage from West’s second listening party in Atlanta – where he levitated towards the stadium’s ceiling – before seeing him fly through the clouds.Watch the video below:The new music video follows the clip for ‘DONDA’ track ‘Come To Life’, which incorporated footage from his third listening party in Chicago, including his self-immolation stunt and the

Fab four! Kim Kardashian doesn’t want any more kids after welcoming North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm with Kanye West.