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After Labor Day the total L.A.-based Fox Network will introduce its new identity/image music that was composed and produced over the last three months by John Ovnik's Deaf...

Leo Burnett's new national "Action Ronald" commercial is a departure for the brand in several ways. For one, the spot promotes an active, healthy life ? no stores, no food, no ...

MARK ARMSTRONG'S hip-hop comedy feature "Chickenhead Bound" from Dusablean Enterprises wrapped principal photography Aug. 12. Premiere screening is planned for Thanksgivi...

Michigan Avenue could get a much needed big business boost if luck is with Cramer-Krasselt pitching the $200 million Kia Motors America account, and if Arby's places its $15 mil...

TIMECODE MECHANICS is releasing a preliminary DVD of their biblical apocalyptic thriller "The 4th Beast: Mask of the Antichrist" Aug. 14. The DV feature, shot by director Nathy...

With the new Kaiser Permanente commercial rolling out nationally, you can add "spot director" to actor James Woods' lengthy and impressive film credits. Woods has been maki...

After a seven month search to fill the vacancy, Columbia College named 15-year Hollywood entertainment executive Jon S. Katzman as the director of its popular five-week Semester...

Post Effects is shoring up its capabilities with the addition of director/cameraman John Wassel, an L.A. veteran and specialist in dialog/performance. Wassel said that his new ...

WHEW, OPRAH STAYS PUT. The tension's over as to whether she would or wouldn't opt out of TV and Chicago at the end of her current contract. But we can relax. Oprah is not going...

Chicago's answer to NAB, albeit in a smaller forum that's easier to get around, is Swiderski Electronics' annual Technology Expo that brings more than 75 leading tech names to t...

Former dramatic and documentary freelance producer/editor Bob Schneiger was named VP/chief creative officer of Towers Productions, Chicago's biggest documentary TV production co...

Over the years, corporate writer/producer Lynn Sanders of Winnetka-based Park Avenue Productions was asked to write and produce tributes for weddings, fundraisers, anniversaries...

The Moonlight Caf? in Bucktown Thursday night was packed solid with nearly 200 filmmakers who came to honor the talents of Chicago's seven contenders who made it into the upper ...

ReelChicago.com is hosting a get-together Thursday, Aug. 12 for the seven filmmakers who did Chicago proud in the 2004 17,000-entry Project Greenlight competition. Come...

Seven films by Chicago filmmakers out of 25 features, documentaries and shorts will be screened at the 10th annual Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video, Aug. 7...

Almost-nationally-famous director Scott Smith made it all the way up the fiercely competitive line to become one of three Project Greenlight finalists ? but did not win the big ...