The new president of the Chicago Acting in Film Meetup (CAFM) is Erin Chenoweth, who was living in LA and working in New York until May, when she decided to move to Chic...
HAVAS WORLDWIDE CHICAGO not only hired veteran agency producer Matt Faris the first of the year for the newly-created position of broadcast and digital production – but 27 oth...
Amelia Dellos’ documentary Love Under Fire: The Story of Bertha & Potter Palmer, will have its broadcast premiere March 24 over Ch. 11 at 5:30 p.m. as part of the station...
George Halas was intensely proud of his triple identity: son of Bohemian immigrants, lifelong Chicagoan and founder of the Chicago Bears. Now his descendants are using their goo...
They always come in to town with expectations. Great expectations that they will do great things. Make a mark in Chicago. Expand their footprint. All the...
Grossman & Jack Talent’s on-camera roster will increase with the addition of new director of on-camera talent Robert Schroeder and agent Donna Simon Dunn, who join from Fo...
SPI-tv Media Group partners Rogelio Gazga and James Demas have put on their good guy hats with an offer to produce a pro bono public service announcement for a Chicago-area...
Steve James’s Kartemquin Films coproduction Life Itself about Roger Ebert is two months into production and on its way to a 2014 broadcast by CNN Films, in a deal announc...
Super Bowl 2013 is history. A game that began looking as if it would be a rout, ended a thrilling — dare we say unforgettable — football game. But how about the 2013 ...
DIRECTOR JOHN McNAUGHTON is back in the horror film business with The Harvest, “the first horror script I’ve been interested in in 25 years,” he says, adding, “it...
When a famous Hollywood movie star returns to his native Chicago in March, the local film industry will have its first informal ambassador to Hollywood, to interest other ...
THIS BEING BLACK HISTORY MONTH, Columbia College’s Feb. 12 Cinema Slapdown (coincidentally Lincoln’s Birthday) debates the “The Help,” an authentic reflection of th...
TODD LOOBY’S FEATURE BE GOOD opens Midwest Independent Film Festival’s 2013 season Feb. 5. The Chicago-made indie, written and directed by Looby, stars Amy Seimetz (of...
Over six-weeks in August and September, Coat of Arms provided editing, sound design, mix, music composition, color correction and delivery on two The Onion shows. They were...
Can it only have been a year since Downtown Partners/Chicago began working on the Illinois Lottery account? My, how time flies. And how dramatically so much has changed — for ...
Richard Dominick, veteran TV show producer, director and writer, most notably known for his 14 years of “The Jerry Springer Show” has made a deal that gives him “what all ...
Hometown girl Jane Lynch (Glee) is being honored as Comedia Extraordinaire at the Chicago Film Critics Association 24th Annual Awards Presentation Saturday, Feb. 9. Muvico ...
Orson Welles is quoted as saying “A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.” Today we have an army of very talented solo players a...
Who hasn’t noticed? Walgreens is undergoing a major sea change. A sea change in operations. A sea change in image. And most definitely a sea change in...
On Monday, just three weeks after agency production executive Tom Cronin stepped in as EVP/manager of Foundation Content, he and 15 others were given notice of the Chicago ...
