For the 11th year, the 48 Hour Film Project returns to Chicago starting the week of July 27 as filmmakers battle it out to complete an entire short film within a 48 hour period....
Debby Kotzen’s Naked Voices – Chicago’s only exclusively voiceover agency – now has 200 exclusive talents on its roster with the addition of two talent agents, “thus e...
Thirty-one screenwriters from Chicago and other Midwestern cities made the first cut in the Chicago Screenwriters Network’s second annual script contest. The 2012 contes...
The life of Emmett McBain, co-founder of Burrell McBain Advertising in 1971, and a renowned water color artist, will be celebrated at a very upbeat memorial party Saturday, June...
Now in its tenth year, the SilverDocs Film Festival, held June 18-24 in Silver Springs, Maryland attracts 27,000 cinefiles who come to catch the world’s buzziest documentaries...
For 30 years, Lawrence (Larry) Bridges has been known for Red Car, his successful, four-city postproduction company. At the same time, he has developed a personal body of ...
Daufenbach Camera is continuing its efforts to build up Midwest work with a $500,000 investment in expanded space and inventory. “We want to let Hollywood producers know...
It would hardly be a stretch to suggest Cirque du Soleil has become part of a circle of entertainment events that can, in a way, call Chicago a home. For the truth is, the Montr...
The 2012 Cannes International Festival of Creativity film jury deliberated last week and came up with a Grand Prix winner that — quelle surprise! — is genuinely deservi...
Only a couple weeks ago we were talking about the slow but sure effort to establish a real and lasting sense of community within Chicago’s advertising industry. In large...
A year after Gov. Pat Quinn led the groundbreaking ceremonies, $80 million Cinespace is starting to come together like the major Hollywood-like studio complex it promised it wou...
NO WORD YET on whether the Goodman’s high-profile recent production of The Iceman Cometh will get a Broadway outing, artists from the stalwart Chicago storefront scene are tak...
Newly formed Cavalry – the Chicago agency WPP Group recently formed to exclusively handle Coors beer brands – hired DDB SVP/group creative director Jim Larmon as its first c...
It’s hard to believe, but the McDonald’s “I’m Loving It” ad campaign will celebrate its 10th anniversary next year. Whatever its fate from here on out, “I’m ...
Late Monday afternoon, J.C. Penney announced its president Michael Francis was immediately departing the company. Francis was wished well in an official statement. And that was ...
CHICAGO AGENCY APPEARANCES on the prestigious AICP Show Reel or agency honors list were virtually non-existent. The 21st annual AICP Show and the NEXT Awards, was held Jun...
THREE LOCAL LEADING LADIES were named among 10 actors around the country as 2012 Lunt-Fontanne Fellows. E. Faye Butler, Susan Moniz, and Hollis Resnik join seven other actors fr...
Although once film-active Wisconsin lost its healthy film incentives a few years ago, “There’s still a good sized talent and theatre group between Milwaukee and Madison that...
With Chris Rossiter’s abrupt departure last week from Leo Burnett after 24 years at the only company he ever worked for, Vince Geraghty has assumed Rossiter’s former positio...
It was a lovely evening for a graduation. It really was. Nearly 100 people gathered on the verandah at the Museum of Contemporary Art Wednesday night for the formal gradua...