Swanberg's "Easy" one of 3 new TV series filming here
If 2016 was considered a great year for the Chicago media and entertainment business, 2017 is starting to shape up as even greater. It could even be the year when the Chicago market eases into $1 billion revenue from film status.
Thanks to Dick Wolf / NBC Universal and to Fox TV, six primetime TV series currently film here at Cinespace Studios, with three new TV series expected to start production in early February.
They are Showtime’s “The Chi” and two Netflix anthology series, Joe Swanberg’s “Easy” and Michael Dinner’s “Electric Dreams: The World of Philip K. Dick.” “The Chi” and “Easy” are set for Cinespace stages and “Electric Dreams” will film at Chicago Studio City.
Showtime’s new hourlong drama series, “The Chi,” is from actress / writer Lena Waithe (“Bones,” “Dear White People”), an Evanston native and Columbia College 2006 graduate and is based on her experiences growing up in Chicago. The pilot was known as “The Chicago Project” when it shot here last summer.
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Onion, Inc. & partners diving into the film business
Satiric news digital publisher Onion, Inc. has formed a joint partnership with award-winning production company, Serious Business, to produce three feature films over the next two years that Lionsgate will distribute.
Onion Studios, the in-house film/TV development arm of Onion, Inc., will work with Jason U. Nadler, Alex Blagg, and Jon Zimelis, creators and executive producers of Comedy Central’s Emmy-winning late-night show, “@midnight with Chris Hardwick.”
An Onion Productions green screen stage is located in the Franklin Street office (730 N. Franklin) and the building housing a full-service shooting stage is at 2155 W. Hubbard.
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