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Radar collaboratively teams with L.A.’s Eden FX

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 1, 2012
RADAR STUDIOS has formed a partnership with L.A.’s Eden FX, a leading high-end provider of 3D, compositing, digital environment, animation and conceptual design for features, ...
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Mixed media ‘Vote, don’t complain’ video goes viral

Mixed media ‘Vote, don’t complain’ video goes viral

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 29, 2012
With the Nov. 6 election right around the corner, ad/marketing specialists, Third Street Advertising, is doing its part to encourage young people to vote. A compelling non-parti...
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Digitas’ Andrew Furth leads ‘indescribable’ local band

Digitas’ Andrew Furth leads ‘indescribable’ local band

By Sean Graves Sep 27, 2012
Chicago blues isn’t dead, but it’s aging while the contemporary music scene is exploding. The professional 20-somethings in this town don’t want a quiet bar with a dusty s...
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New AICP Midwest board includes four women members

New AICP Midwest board includes four women members

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 27, 2012
Four members of AICP Midwest were newly elected to the 13-member board of directors in the annual election held Tuesday, Sept. 23.  They are Megan Maples, executive produce...
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Havas Worldwide rebrands Euro RSCG; top execs remain
  • Lewis Lazare

Havas Worldwide rebrands Euro RSCG; top execs remain

By Lewis Lazare Sep 27, 2012
What’s in a name?  Not enough to keep it apparently, if you’re David Jones, CEO of the Paris-based holding company Havas. This week, Jones announced his daring decision...
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DDB quietly absorbs Element 79; Williams to depart
  • Lewis Lazare

DDB quietly absorbs Element 79; Williams to depart

Sep 25, 2012
Let’s put it this way. It wasn’t a good sign. Quietly.  Ever so quietly, the deed was done.  Not in the dark of night, exactly.  But quietly.  So as not ...
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Surge of commercials shooting on Chicago locations

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 24, 2012
A RECORD BREAKER? Eight Chicago and L.A.-New York production companies are making September one of the busiest months of the year for commercial shoots on Chicago locations &nbs...
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Improv actor Alex Beh directs his first feature here

Improv actor Alex Beh directs his first feature here

By Ed M. Koziarski Sep 24, 2012
L.A.-based “Funny or Die” website regular and Winnetka native Alex Beh is back in town as writer, director and star of his debut feature Warren. The coming-of-age love story...
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Chicago hoops star Tony Bennett in Nike mini doc
  • MEDIA

Chicago hoops star Tony Bennett in Nike mini doc

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 21, 2012
GRITTY CHICAGO LOCATIONS are an integral part of a 90-second web video made for Team Nike and the World Festival of Basketball in recognition of Chicago’s sports authenticity ...
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’51º South’ web series visits remote Falkland Islands

’51º South’ web series visits remote Falkland Islands

By Ed M. Koziarski Sep 20, 2012
When former Columbia College classmates Jamie Gallant, now an associate producer at DDB, and British native Vern Cummins first visited the Falkland Islands last year, “we reco...
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Second City helps the Lyric change its marketing tune
  • Lewis Lazare

Second City helps the Lyric change its marketing tune

By Lewis Lazare Sep 20, 2012
Circa 2012, it’s a whole new world at Lyric Opera of Chicago. The city’s world-renowned opera company has over the past couple of years begun to completely transform its app...
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Wachowskis’ epic ‘Cloud Atlas’ is CIFF centerpiece

Wachowskis’ epic ‘Cloud Atlas’ is CIFF centerpiece

By Mike Morgan Sep 19, 2012
Leave it to founder/artistic director Michael Kutza and the board and staff of the Chicago and the 48th International Film Festival to elevate the city’s culture level with th...
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Agency GCD’s horror script set for $2mm production

Agency GCD’s horror script set for $2mm production

By Kerry Devine Sep 19, 2012
On the fast track: Only five short years ago, T.J. Cimfel, top creative at a health care ad agency, decided to be a screenwriter after spending years searching for the right fic...
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Music Box hosts United Film Festival Sept. 22-27
  • Indie Focus

Music Box hosts United Film Festival Sept. 22-27

By Ed M. Koziarski Sep 19, 2012
THE UNITED FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box Theatre Sept. 22-27 with a program that includes some 19 narrative and documentary features and 21 shorts. Some highlights are ...
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New-to-Chicago Liquid 9 hosts Sept. 20 Open House

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 18, 2012
LIQUID 9 CELEBRATES ITS LAUNCH as a new Chicago production company with separate post and music divisions, at an Open House  Thursday, 6 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20 in new spa...
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Gala fundraiser to preserve historic Essanay Oct. 6

Gala fundraiser to preserve historic Essanay Oct. 6

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 18, 2012
Inside what was Essanay Studios in Uptown, actors Charlie Chaplin, Wallace Beery, Gloria Swanson, Ben Turpin and other icons starred in silent one-reelers that were churned out ...
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Art smart Burnett/Arc’s public ploy promotes theatre
  • Lewis Lazare

Art smart Burnett/Arc’s public ploy promotes theatre

By Lewis Lazare Sep 18, 2012
There they were Sunday morning.  A couple of hundred people gathered around the staircase inside the Michigan Avenue entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago.  They we...
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Digital replacing film the issue in GSFC doc Sept. 17

Digital replacing film the issue in GSFC doc Sept. 17

By Mike Morgan Sep 14, 2012
“Side by Side,” the doc that looks at digital technology’s effect on filmmaking screens Monday, Sept. 17 at the Gene Siskel Film Center (GSFC).  With the inexorable r...
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Hear those ‘Sirens?’ Denis Leary pilot on its way

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 13, 2012
DENIS LEARY gets back to his comedian’s chops with a pilot he’s been co-writing and developing for the past year for Fox TV Studios.  The single camera half-hour comedy...
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New HBO Go digital airs ‘Single Long’ comedy series

New HBO Go digital airs ‘Single Long’ comedy series

by Ed M. Koziarski Sep 13, 2012
Jack Lawrence Mayer, Sarra Jahedi and Ed Hausman were a year out of the University of Chicago when they created the comedy pilot Single Long, based in part on a weekly web serie...
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