The Central Illinois film industry is getting some attention. A new movie shot in Champaign and Piatt Counties is releasing ...

After over three decades as a movie house primarily, the Theatre made ... Foundation of Champaign County to kickoff the capital campaign, as well as a $3,000 grant from Illinois Power to restore ...

Last month, Champaign Art Theater operator ... Hess gets a lot of great movies there, stuff that you really can't see anywhere else that I know in central Illinois a lot of the time.

“Leading Ladies,” a film shot in Champaign during summer 2009, is premiering at The Art Theater, in downtown Champaign, on Saturday and Sunday. “It’s a dance musical,” said Brett Hays, who co-produced ...

CHAMPAIGN — Coming soon, courtesy of the skilled hand of a Bloomington sculptor: The chance for movie fans to take a seat on either side of late film critic Roger Ebert, and share a big thumbs up.

Before the film critic Roger Ebert died last April at age 70, he did more than just review movies. One of his ... in front of the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, the site of the festival.

Robin Scholz/The News-Gazette The parking lot east of the AMC Theater in Champaign is the site of a car wash on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020.Robin Scholz/The News-Gazette The parking lot east of the ...