Author: barbararoche

The recent annual Chicago Classic basketball game between court rivals Local 476 Studio Mechanics and Local 600 Camera Operators ended in victory for Local 476, which scored 49 ...

DDB Chicago’s SVP/executive producer Will St. Clair will join FCB Chicago on Monday, April 11 as its Director of Integrated Production, a new position created within the agenc...

Grossman & Jack Talent officially closed its seven-year old fashion models division, Agency Galatea, last Friday after it gave two weeks’ notice to its founder / director ...

All good things must come to an end, as the old adage goes. And one of those good things is the closing of lighting director Brad Barrett’s 15-year old AGLS — A Great ...

Writer/director Steve Conrad, actor Gary Cole, TV show creators and “Empire’s” key crew members will be among the TV pros holding forth on the trials and triumphs of TV sh...

In what has the elements of a movie in itself, a pair of non-pro filmmakers get together and turn the basic themes of a short story into an $865,000 crime-drama feature that wil...

Here’s your first look at the some of the first of 50 panels and workshops that will be presented at CIMMcon, April 16-17, the Midwest’s premiere Film, Music and Tech Confer...

At the American Advertising Federation 2016 ADDY Awards last Wednesday night, Energy BBDO was the top winner with a record-setting 93 awards topped by earning the Best in S...

Joe Swanberg, Chicago’s well known and most prolific micro-budget indie producer, is moving into television, with a series called “Easy,” for Netflix, which has been maki...

Gray Talent Group client Justin Cornwell flew to Los Angeles this week to start filming his co-starring role with Bill Paxton in “Training Day,” a Warner Bros. pilot for CBS...

Seven years ago, on March 24, actor Jim Belushi and other Friends of Bill Hogan hosted a fundraiser on behalf of the former Teamsters official to help him pay legal fees to defe...