The New Year starts on a positive note for brothers Jeff and Lee Faclis as their Resolution Digital Studios and Show Department companies emerge from the Chapter 11 bankruptcy f...
For the talk diva who reigned in regal fashion on television for more than a quarter century, it was a stunning admission of near total failure. In a lay-bare-your-problems inte...
Two veteran Illinois Film Office employees retired Dec. 30, ostensibly leaving vacancies for their jobs. But filling those positions may not be as clear cut as applying fo...
After a five-year absence, the 22nd Chicago Film Critics Awards (CFCA) takes the spotlight at the Broadway Playhouse in Water Tower on Jan. 7, it again will be the first of the ...
ACTOR MICHAEL SHANNON’S manager Byron Wetzel has optioned Jim Sikora’s script for I’ll Die Tomorrow as a star vehicle for the Boardwalk Empire villain, Oscar nominee and s...
Come Jan. 5, Chicago’s internationally acclaimed comedy scene is expected to attract more than 10,000 fans for the 11th Annual Comedy Sketch Comedy Festival, performing for ei...
A HIGH PROFILE LAWSUIT was filed by local law firm Belongia Shapiro & Franklin - on behalf of its client, Croatian author Josip J. Knezevic, using his Anglicized name ...
GREG ALLAN’S SONIXPHERE tapped New York-based Clint Arent as director of East Coast business development, to focus on New York agencies. “An increasing amount of our b...
To say 2011 whizzed by is an understatement. The year about to end was — everything considered — a pretty good year for the Chicago advertising industry. At leas...
From the imaginative and colorful opening title sequence of “Close Quarters,” we are in the hands of debut feature filmmaker, Jack C. Newell, who is firmly in control of his...
Come January, Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) Central Regional office (CRO) will have a familiar face as its new head honcho. Christine Provost, who has been at the CRO for 1...
CHICAGO IS REPRESENTED in the 2012 Golden Globes awards, with two nominations for Starz network’s Chicago-set and produced “Boss.” The just-concluded (and what...
Did someone mention turnaround? Yes, for the first time in a very long time, there are substantial signs of a discernible, hope-engendering turnaround in the fortunes of C...
INVALUABLE FUNDING ADVICE straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak, will come from top-level representatives of four national foundations known for providing grant money t...
A reinvigorated Chicago Screenwriters Network (CSN) kicks off 2012 with an updated and more conveniently located meeting venue, a screenwriting contest with a writer’s dream o...
AN OSCAR STATUETTE could be in the future of Cutters’ L.A. editor Aki Mizutani, who edited Sundance-winning director Lucy Walker’s “The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom”.T...
The five agencies left in the running for the Illinois Lottery advertising account have gotten the assignment from the Lottery private manager Northstar Lottery Group that all w...
AVI Systems, the 15-state systems integrator with a Bensenville office, has several good reasons to celebrate at its Eat Drink Edit holiday party Thursday, Dec. 15. The Mi...
Bernie Pitzel has made a move. Yes, word will go out today that Pitzel — a true veteran of the Chicago ad scene — has changed his work address to the Jacobs Agency/Chi...
Since their soft launch three months ago, Go Locations Services and Go Rentals has serviced Shameless, The Playboy Club, Man of Steel, and more than 50 commercials in Illinois, ...