CHICAGO – In anticipation of the scariest week of the year, HollywoodChicago.com launches its 2024 Movie Gifts series, which will suggest DVDs and collections for holiday giving.
Meet the Parents
Film News: Greg Glienna of Original ‘Meet the Parents’ at Park Ridge Pickwick Theatre, Sept. 20, 2024
Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 18, 2024 - 4:40pmCHICAGO – Before it became a Hollywood franchise, the original “Meet the Parents” was a locally-filmed 1992 indie film co-written, directed and featuring Greg Glienna of Park Ridge, Illinois. That city’s famous Pickwick Theatre will celebrate 30 years of the film with a week long run that begins on Friday, September 20th, 2024, with an appearance at the 7pm show by Glienna, his co-writer/co-star Mary Ruth Clarke and producer Jim Vincent, with moderation by Ian Simmons of Kicking the Seat Vodcast. For ticket info and details, click MEET THE PARENTS.
Slideshow: Doug Stanhope, Cast/Crew of New Film ‘The Road Dog’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on October 5, 2023 - 3:31pmCHICAGO – Stand-up comedy icon Doug Stanhope will be featured in a new film releasing through Video-On-Demand beginning October 6th, 2023. “The Road Dog” features Stanhope as an alcoholic comedian who re-connects with a long lost son who wants to go into the family business.
Podtalk: Co-Writers & Director on New Film ‘The Road Dog,’ at Pickwick Theatre, Sep. 1-7, 2023
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 31, 2023 - 1:47pmCHICAGO – “The Road Dog” refers to the stand-up comic who lives that life from town to town. The new film by the same name is co-written by Tony Boswell and Greg Glienna (also director), and will screen at the Park Ridge (IL) Pickwick Theatre (click here).
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 25 Pairs of Chicago Passes to ‘Little Fockers’ With Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on December 12, 2010 - 2:39pmCHICAGO – In our latest comedy edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 25 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of the new film “Little Fockers” with Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Jessica Alba, Dustin Hoffman and Owen Wilson!
2010 Universal Pictures Preview: ‘Robin Hood,’ ‘Green Zone,’ ‘MacGruber’
Submitted by BrianTT on January 12, 2010 - 9:41pm
Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) tries to break into Vectors fortress in Despicable Me.CHICAGO – Universal Pictures has released a slate of images from their 2010 films including “Despicable Me,” “Robin Hood,” “Green Zone,” “MacGruber,” “Repo Men,” the second untitled sequel to “Meet the Parents,” “Repo Men,” “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” and “Your Highness.”
