Tremendous progress in elevating Cinespace Studios as the central core of Chicago’s film infrastructure in just 14 months, since Gov. Pat Quinn cut the studio’s opening cere...
High-end HD video production equipment of long-established Detroit Grace & Wild production/post and company-owned Postique Studios, will be sold via an online only auction b...
It’ll never happen. Whatever good Mayor Rahm Emanuel hoped might come from his hideously verbose Chicago Cultural Plan — a draft of which was released Monday — isn’...
In their two years in business, Magnanimous Media has emerged as a lower-cost, scrappy South Side competitor in the Chicago camera rentals scene. Cofounder Craig Maltby says Mag...
Two international posthouses have joined their established Chicago sister editorial company to form a powerhouse collective of talent and services, located in new 9,000-sq. ft. ...
Say this for Mario Van Peebles: Despite the dark themes of Startz “Boss,” the director presides over a festive set. Before filming ended on the second season July 10, ...
BEFORE SCIENTISTS at the CERN particle accelerator outside Geneva, Switzerland apparently discovered the long-sought Higgs Boson or “God Particle” earlier this month, 137 Fi...
IT’S PROBABLY SAFE TO SAY that Mexican-born, Chicago-based playwright Tanya Saracho has emerged. She adds another impressive notch to her professional belt by being selected a...
Guess we can add food critic to adman Vinny Warren’s list of accomplishments now. He has just put the finishing touches on a spectacular new in-cinema commercial for Osc...
NEW EDITOR is newly elevated Sean Halvorsen, who has been an assistant (mostly to editor Graham Metzger)since he joined the editorial house shortly after its founding in 2008. H...
Writers who said what they wanted most to have from their Chicago Screenwriters Network membership was direct-Chicago-to-Hollywood access will get their wish Sunday, when the fi...
What a laugh! Chicago may be the city that works (some of the time), but it has never really had much of a clue how to market itself to tourists — or locals for that mat...
VITAMIN’S DANNY DELPURGATORIO, creative director/director of Filmworkers Club’s motion graphics division, directed a short with a Vitamin crew of 15 that showcases July...
When it comes to marketing liquor — especially those products aimed at a young adult demo — it of course helps immeasurably to be extraordinarily alert to current trends in ...
Noise Floor’s Cory Coken says he and partner Jamie Vanadia are “totally stoked” about their old friend and fellow Avenue Edit sound designer/mixer John Wong joining their ...
IF THERE’S ONE THING directors Andy and Lana Wachowski are expert at it’s keeping a tight lid on news about their projects, never publicly speaking about them and thus...
The days of begging distributors to take your work is over. The days of receiving no money for your work is over. Now, exciting new ways are emerging to reach an aud...
LEO BURNETT’S NEW FARMHOUSE innovation and new venture center was named in honor of the agency founder’s Lake Zurich farmhouse that served as a senior management retreat in ...
Commercial director and still photographer Laurie Rubin is on the assignment of a lifetime. She is the sole still photographer on the expedition that will search for wreck...
AFTER A TOO LENGTHY PERIOD of promotional inactivity, Chicago/Illinois’ film interests will finally make a formal appearance in Hollywood Aug. 1. Gov. Pat Quinn has been...