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, ...
“It was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up,” says Steve Morrison about his new position as VP/general manager/editor of Foundation Content. He will assume his new job...
VICTORY GARDENS THEATER received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, earmarked for their production of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s new play, “We Are Proud ...
The Reel welcomes back longtime contributing editor Ed Koziarski after six months in post earthquake Japan producing a documentary. (See Uncanny Terrain below.) IND...
Schafer Condon Carter’s entire staff of 75, along with some clients, friends and busy “Christmas elves,” will share their holiday spirit in song Thursday, Dec. 15, when th...
We now know which five ad agencies (all in Chicago) have a shot at nabbing the Illinois Lottery account, with the winner expected to be announced in late January. Those five sho...
Director Sean Patrick Fahey, of hybrid production studio Odd Machine, will direct and co-produce "Nine Twelve,” an indie feature which explores the lives of three people who m...
Today's big shake-up in the Sprint ad agency roster will prompt plenty of fallout over the next several months. But sources today confirmed one of the shops to be hit hard...
Steppenwolf Film’s “The Last Rites of Joe May,” starring Dennis Farina and written and directed by Joe Maggio, topped the Best of the Midwest’s nine category awards pres...
Men of a certain age might remember Philips Norelco’s 1990s commercial of Santa Claus’ epic ride over snow-covered hills to deliver a Norelco razor. Santa will ride ag...
So far so… well, so not according to plan. The race to find a new ad agency for the Illinois Lottery has just begun, and already so much has happened that wasn’t nece...
Michigan moved closer to new film incentives Dec. 1 with the House Commerce Committee revising SB 569 and sending it out of committee with a passing vote of 16-1. The Film Produ...
Daufenbach Camera received early RED’s Scarlet-X 4K camera serial numbers 22 and 33 of the revolutionary new cameras that were shipped to buyers a few weeks ago, making ...
VETERAN ACTOR DENNIS FARINA and director Joe Maggio of indie feature “The Last Rites of Joe May,” will be special guests at the Midwest Independent Film Festival’s Best of...
The ownership of Teletech Video has passed from the founding family to three energetic employees, who are expanding HD production-to-distribution capabilities and reopening in n...
