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Author: Barbara Roche

New Rush Hospital spots directed by Gil Cope for SPM

New Rush Hospital spots directed by Gil Cope for SPM

By Mike Morgan Feb 9, 2012
The campaign announcing Rush University Medical Center’s new state-of-the-art hospital -- a departure from the style of the hospital’s previous campaigns -- was created by h...
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Tourism’s “Second to None” won’t lure foreign visitors
  • Lewis Lazare

Tourism’s “Second to None” won’t lure foreign visitors

By Lewis Lazare Feb 9, 2012
Let’s talk tourism. Specifically the marketing of Chicago to tourists. We’ve actually been talking about the topic for years.  And we’ve often been disappointed ...
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Zacuto staffers’ sci-fi spoof screens at Feb. 11 party

Zacuto staffers’ sci-fi spoof screens at Feb. 11 party

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 7, 2012
Five Zacuto employees got together a year ago to produce the first episode of a sci-fi/adventure/comedy web series.  Now the third episode of their “Hank Frisco: Galaxy D...
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New “Rosie” show hyped as different – and now worse
  • Lewis Lazare

New “Rosie” show hyped as different – and now worse

By Lewis Lazare Feb 7, 2012
Step right up ladies and gents and get your front row seats!  You too can see what promises to be one of the greatest and saddest spectacles in recent television history.&n...
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Sonixphere cues enhance ABC’s reality show characters

Sonixphere cues enhance ABC’s reality show characters

By Mike Morgan Feb 7, 2012
Score another network TV show for Greg Allan’s Sonixphere.  ABC’s new Tuesday night show, “Celebrity Wife Swap,” is the music company’s third network show, for wh...
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50 fine art pieces dazzle at Utopic’s Art Gallery Exhibit

50 fine art pieces dazzle at Utopic’s Art Gallery Exhibit

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 7, 2012
Eight accomplished local artists and photographers exhibit their widely varied and eclectic images on the walls throughout Utopic’s 9,000-sq. ft. space at the integrated studi...
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Neuberger again presides over Grammy Show’s audio

Neuberger again presides over Grammy Show’s audio

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 7, 2012
Among the artists like Paul McCartney, Adele, Cold Play, Rihanna and Bruce Springsteen who will appear at music’s biggest night next Saturday, Feb. 12 is a Chicago celebrity.&...
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Gaffer Andrew Cook celebrates his 25th anniversary

Gaffer Andrew Cook celebrates his 25th anniversary

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 6, 2012
Andrew Cook, Chicago’s only non-union gaffer who comes equipped with his own trucks and gear, is celebrating his 25th business anniversary. To help mark the occasion, The Reel...
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LCA symposium covers vital online publishing issues

LCA symposium covers vital online publishing issues

By Mike Morgan Feb 6, 2012
Indie filmmaker, screenwriter and New York Times best-selling author of 14 books, Jay Bonansinga is the keynote speaker at the Feb. 11 all-day symposium, “Pen to Digital Press...
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Profiles takes over National Pastimes’ Broadway space
  • Curtain Calls

Profiles takes over National Pastimes’ Broadway space

By Kerry Reid Feb 5, 2012
They’ve been neighbors in the same building for years, but Profiles Theatre and National Pastime Theater will be widening the physical gap between their companies in the month...
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Showtime to air Davies and Brody’s “Phunny Business”

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 4, 2012
SHOWTIME WILL AIR John Davies and Reid Brody’s acclaimed feature-length doc “Phunny Business: A Black Comedy,” Feb. 23 at 8:30 p.m. in celebration of Black History Month.&...
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Comedy sneak preview leads month of screenings, events

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 2, 2012
February gets underway with a burst of worthwhile screenings and other events, starting with a sneak preview Friday night, Feb. 3 of co-producers Boris Wexler and Julian Grant...
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Cutters, Moonlink share Jim Talbot’s unique talents

Cutters, Moonlink share Jim Talbot’s unique talents

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 2, 2012
Cutters Detroit and sister company Moonlink are sharing the unique dual skills of new arrival Jim Talbot, possibly the only combination editor/DP among Detroit production/post c...
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Ch. 7 still rules as all 10 p.m. news ratings slip
  • Lewis Lazare

Ch. 7 still rules as all 10 p.m. news ratings slip

By Lewis Lazare Feb 2, 2012
Whoever said we humans are creatures of habit was right. For years, however, that truism has been a source of more than a little frustration to more than a few general managers ...
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Raleigh Studios due to default on $18 million in bonds

Raleigh Studios due to default on $18 million in bonds

By Mike Morgan Feb 1, 2012
Raleigh Studios in Pontiac, Michigan is expected to default on $18 million in state issued bonds that were part of the financing for the $80 million studio complex that opened w...
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Local AFTRA-SAG members to benefit from merger

Local AFTRA-SAG members to benefit from merger

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 1, 2012
A combined total of 190,000 members of Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists will vote on the merger of the two major talent unions a...
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Alex Beh makes his feature debut with “Warren”
  • Indie Focus

Alex Beh makes his feature debut with “Warren”

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 31, 2012
L.A. BASED ORIAN WILLIAMS, who produced the Joy Division biopic Control, has signed on to produce Winnetka native actor/director Alex Beh’s feature directorial debut, the comi...
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Producer Shawe brings her New York chops to Leviathan

Producer Shawe brings her New York chops to Leviathan

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 31, 2012
When post producer Lauren Shawe returned to Chicago after seven years in New York, Leviathan’s Chad Hutson, recognizing how the quality of her internet, visual effects and pos...
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  • Lewis Lazare

Ex-Burnett creative veteran contemplates second act

By Lewis Lazare Jan 31, 2012
What does one do for a second act in advertising?  It’s always a tough question.  Made even more so when one’s first act produced what may be the single best TV co...
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“Chicago Fire” pilot shoots here March 14-April 1

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 30, 2012
THE “CHICAGO FIRE” PILOT is scheduled to shoot here March 14 through April 1, according to the Chicago Film Office’s Rich Moskal, who says no cast or director is confirm.&...
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