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DRAFT AND FCB WILL MERGE and the combined Interpublic-owned agencies will be called Draft FCB. Chairman/CEO will be Howard Draft, founder/CEO of his eponymous agency. Jo...

SAG, AFTRA and the ad industry's Joint Policy Committee on Broadcast Talent Union Relations agreed to hire a consultant to address how actors in commercials will be paid when sp...

DP Tom Musto brings his two-day lighting seminar to the Chicago area in June with a guarantee that his formula for film style lighting for any kind of video and HD works every t...

SUPERSTAR DIRECTOR TONY KAYE directed and shot a DDB McDonald's spot, "Rainy Day," which was edited by Cutters' partner Kathryn Hempel with visual effects provided by SOLdesign...

Lisa, a foodie buddy of mine, told me about Calvin's BBQ, 2922 W. Armitage, a tiny shack on the outskirts of Logan Square. She's always on the hunt for rough-hewn places ...

The only Illinois-shot feature at the Sundance Film Festival this year was 26-year-old Brian Jun's gritty family drama "Steel City," shot in his native Alton. "Steel City" s...

Veteran stage and screen actor and theatre producer Mike Houlihan's debut feature as writer, producer and star is truly a family affair. Houlihan's son Paddy is director and ...

Dan Halperin of Epiphany Pictures is producing Craig Harris' feature adaptation of Harris' 2003 TV drama "Skin Complex" that garnered five Midwest Emmys, among other awards. ...

CHAD QUEEN of B Minus Productions starts shooting his debut feature "In the Loop" this June. It's the story of three longtime friends (Andrew Yearick, Jack Calhoun and Jacq...

BAM Studio's Brian Reed is a persistent cuss. It took him five years, never doubting, to achieve his goal of getting major music libraries to join in his quest for a better del...

Del Hall was all smiles at the end of the Tuesday auction of equipment and fixtures of his soon-to-close Del Hall Video. Some 300 serious bidders on the premises and via th...

You have to admire Bill Whirity's moxie. A college sophomore at the time, he produced a feature length comedy on a minescule budget, rented a neighborhood theatre for a June 15...

If you've followed this series, you've probably noticed that the word "international" has popped up more than once in context of describing the marketplace for Chicago-made shor...

Some meals haunt me for years and I'm always on the hunt for something similar to those I've devoured in out of the way places, like the fresh coconut-coated jumbo shrimp served...

Chicago is a major HD production/post hub, pioneered by Fletcher Chicago over the past eight years when they first introduced a 30-frame Sony HDW 700 to the market. Since th...

JOE SWANBERG, the 24-year-old filmmaker who has had two SXSW feature premieres in two years, debuts his new online series "Young American Bodies" this month on Nerve.com's new v...

Free-speech champion. Provocateur. Comic book publisher. Alleged serial killer victim. These are some of the many faces of Todd Loren, the subject of BulletProof Film's new ...

Filament Post adds wattage to its creative light with the return of executive producer Carol Schwermin Govern, who brings with her six years of intense L.A. experience in high-e...

In response to its customers' rapid transition of programs from videotape to DVD and the internet, Allied Vaughn now offers onsite Media On Demand services. Media On Demand ...

A MAJOR ROCK SHOW was captured for webcasting at the Aragon Ballroom by Third Wave Productions for client Network Live. "It will be a simulcast broadcast later on AOL and ...