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Most marketing people are either so BlackBuried or lost in the C-suite that they miss key developments in industry jargon. Thankfully, Cramer-Krasselt is ready to loop you back ...

New York editor Michael Coletta exchanges the Mad Ave scene for Michigan Ave - more accurately East Illinois St. -- when he returns home Aug. 16 after a nine-year absence. ...

Wearing his iconic red golf shirt and a big Irish smile, Optimus president Tom Duff on Friday will greet from 1,000 to 3,000 guests at Optimus' 15th Block Party The party, h...

Fox TV's cop/crime "Ride-Along" series, now shooting here for the next three months, is one of the first network TV shows to utilize Fletcher Camera's new, hot Arri Alexa, Arri...

All at once, three local TV stations are developing new, local, live original programming with studio audiences to fill the spaces vacated earlier by Jerry Springer and the upco...

With seven features currently in production, seven more upcoming and 16 films wrapped this year, the Michigan Film Office expects 2010 to be a booming film production year. ...

GROSSMAN & JACK TALENT, the popular agency owned by veteran agents Mickey Grossman and Linda Jack, are now settled into their more comfortably configured new offices at 33 ...

KEVIN COOPER'S 3D dog comedy, "Shakey," which starts shooting this month in the western suburbs, signed lead actors Steve Guttenberg ("Police Academy"), Beverly D'Angelo of the ...

After many successful years of running a corporate video company, MindSight partners Jack Liga and Dan Niccolai hit a series of business problems. No sooner did they emerge fr...

Over the years it was bound to happen, as states like New Mexico, Louisiana and more recently Michigan enticed Hollywood producers to their states with ever more lucrative tax a...

New design-driven 3D animation studio Leviathan moved into a West Loop building being rehabbed while new windows were still being hoisted into place, and worked late over the we...

DAILY VIDEO UPLOADS and blogs document Young & Rubicam/Chicago's "Craftsman Across America" promotion, featuring "one man, one mower and 3,300 miles," as Lucas Van Engen rides...

THE ACTION COMEDY, "30 Minutes or Less," which started shooting in Grand Rapids last week through October, is said to be the biggest movie project ever shot in the area, acco...

Mark Androw says he usually doesn't speculate about how business will shape up in the future. "But this year is different," states the AICP Midwest Chapter president and STORY ...

Kartemquin Films will become the first documentary company to receive the Newberry Library's 25-year-old Altgeld Freedom of Speech Award at a ceremony July 31. "Kartemquin h...

IN THE MIDDLE EAST for three weeks is documentarian Malachi Leopold of Left Brain/Right Brain Productions. He is visiting Israel, the West Bank and Gaza as part of a delega...

Bruce Willis, who has defended hostages in "Die Hard" and bartended bar at Manhattan's Kamikaze while attempting to break into New York theatre. Now in Chicago Aug. 11, the act...

Chicago is a city teeming with comedy talent (you have to have a sense of humor to live here) and no where is it more explicit in films than the Chicago Comedy Shorts Festival. ...

Mysterious John Locke of ABC's "Lost," i.e. Emmy winner Terry O'Quinn, can be found at the Park West July 31, as the special guest at a benefit for his brother's first independ...

Little known fact: Chicago Recording Company, the mainstay of Chicago's audio recording business for 30 years, is the country's largest independent recording company in terms of...