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The June 14 debut of the second season of HBO's popular vampire series also marked the debut of Digital Kitchen's evolution to a hybrid agency for brands, while it remains one o...

Celebrating their 25th anniversary, Ralph Murnyak and Kevin Blake's Image Base corporate production house is a rarity today, a thriving survivor of seismic technology changes th...

THE CHICAGO COMEDY TV PILOT COMPETITION, designed to burnish Chicago's international reputation for comedy, returns for the third year July 22, with six half-hour pilots competi...

THE HOTTEST TICKETS IN TOWN were those issued by Universal Studios for the Chicago preview of "Public Enemies" that screened in two theatres in the River East 21 complex Thurs...

DIRECTOR HAROLD RAMIS receives the "Just for Laughs" Lifetime Achievement Award at the red carpet screening of Columbia Pictures' "Year One" at the Music Box, June 16. The...

Potential entrants of Optimus' second annual "One Shot" contest, that will produce the winning 30-second script as a high-quality commercial, will meet June 10 at Optimus for a ...

Stephen Cone returned to his apartment/production office the day after shooting wrapped on his sophomore feature, "In Memoriam: A Comedy," to find his movie had been stolen. ...

Burrell Communications bested three other minority agencies to win an initial two-year, $6.4 million Illinois Lottery contract to provide advertising and PR targeted to African ...

A "PUBLIC ENEMIES" PRESS JUNKET by Universal Studios is scheduled for June 18 in Chicago, with the conference to be held at Union Station, we hear. A full complement of stars...

Former Jerry Springer producer Richard Dominick is one of several Chicago-Hollywood producers teaming with Pixel Brothers (PBI) as the studio moves into the realm of entertainme...

Zacuto will exhibit 30 recently released products at Cine Gear Expo 2009 in L.A. this weekend. The innovative light weight DSLR Gunstock Shooters are included in the newest ite...

Digital feature "Four," the 40-minute, ambitious MFA thesis film of writer/director Patrick Wimp, the first-ever MFA graduate of DePaul University's Digital Cinema program, will...

The sold-out June 11 Portfolio Night 7 in Chicago ? best described as "speed dating" for advertising students and agency creative directors ? will be one of 22 such events takin...

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? Michael Mann's 1930s crime movie "Public Enemies," which spent $25 million filming in Chicago and the state last year, will have various premi...

Tom Jordan's new book, "Re-Render the Gender," exposes the "vicious circle" at the heart of the advertising industry: women make or influence over 80% of all purchases, but men...

Kevin Cooper, producer of the 2003 Robert Duvall/Michael Caine/Haley Joel Osment family picture, "Second Hand Lions," makes his feature directing debut with the canines-run-amok...

Columbia College new Internet and Mobile Media concentration scored an online success with the May 7 launch of its web series "Sexperts." It garnered 70,000 viewers in three day...

THE COLONIE'S BOB ACKERMAN edited a Joe Pytka-directed 11 spot mixed media package of Hallmark spots, with a sound track backed by the Grammy winner John Mayer's song, "Say," ...

MATT DWORZANCZYK recently completed production on his 17-minute film "Marlin," a dark fantasy from Bogar Alonso's script. The story is about a little girl kidnapped by a stran...

Outsider Inc., which let its staff go and moved out of its big Streeterville loft space, moved last week into what executive producer Michael Rafayko said was going to be "new a...