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LOVE IS IN THE AIR for the first Hollywood project to be shot in Chicago so far this year, breaking the nine-month dry spell and portending more business ahead. The NBC ha...

While the 2016 Chicago Olympic Committee has been capturing dazzling vistas to showcase the city, two agency veterans want to show the world the diversity, soul and spirit of t...

Jim Belushi will be one of the Friends of Bill Hogan hosting a March 24 fundraiser on behalf of the former Teamsters official, as he defends his right to free speech. In a b...

Dear Ruth: I am deeply concerned with the story you ran and I'd like to request that you correct all the factual inaccuracies contained therein immediately, namely: We hav...

ACCORDING TO RELIABLE SOURCES, one of the A-List L.A. directors, who came here for the Leo Burnett/Olympic Committee shoot last week, got into a bit of trouble at the wrap par...

Dear Abby: It is very admirable of Leo Burnett to work with the Olympic Committee to help bring the 2016 Summer Games to Chicago, a civic endeavor subsidized by many businesses ...

A copywriter persuades with concepts and language. Agility with words is just one element in the toolkit. When I added "hypnotist" to my business card, I acquired more train...

Among the three films Split Pillow has in the works are a feature that starts shooting in May, and a documentary in progress that will finish shooting this year. In the meant...

Producer Malachi Leopold wants to fly to the Sudan next month for a month of filming the poignant story of one of the Lost Boys of the Sudan, who will reunite with his parents a...

IF YOU'VE BEEN COUNTING, Chicago has been bereft of Hollywood feature production for nine months. "Public Enemies" wrapped last June, after six months of spending quite a bi...

Leo Burnett imported Los Angeles directors and personnel to shoot footage for Chicago 2016 Olympic "bid films" aimed at showing the International Olympic Committee's Evaluation...

FILMWORKERS NEW GENERAL MANAGER is 14-year veteran Manuela Hung, who now manages Filmworkers and Astro Labs in Chicago and Dallas and Lift motion graphics division in Chic...

IFP'S 2009 PRODUCERS SERIES April 4-6 and April 18-29 at Columbia College focuses on documentaries. Toplining the series is a Kartemquin trio of creative director Gordon Qui...

Former DePaul Digital Cinema professors Dave Stone, Vanessa Ament and Lou Kleinman are still reeling from the impact of the unexpected and unexplained decision by DePaul Univers...

Another Country has opened what is possibly the largest sound recording room in the Midwest -- one that clients are calling "the best room in Chicago," says partner/sound desig...

3D animator/director Paul Griswold has to his credit projects involving Cate Blanchett, Coldplay, Shepherd Fairey, David Bryne, and RZA without leaving his home town of Ft. Wayn...

Venerable Kartemquin Films, now helmed by recently-appointed executive director Justine Nagan, is embarking on a number of new initiatives to assure its viability and growth, e...

When Oscar-nominated producer/director Tod Lending needed to improve audio on his latest project ?- an hourlong, $1.5 million doc, "The Principal Story," scheduled for a "POV" e...

Grossman & Jack Talent -- for the first time in its 17 years of business -- will represent talent and services other than voiceover and on-camera, with the new addition of t...

A movie veteran and a college film student started grass roots movement SAVE WI FILM INCENTIVES, aimed at generating a firestorm of protest letters to Gov. Jim Doyle and Wiscon...