ENERGY BBDO'S MARK TAYLOR'S abrupt departure as chief creative officer was announced by president/CEO Tonise Paul at an office meeting Friday, who cited his leaving for unexplai...
THREE NEW AT LEVITHAN are producer James Turek, who earlier had spent eight years in LA; software engineer David Braun, a recent Brown University grad with a BA in Mathematics...
FOR THOSE AGENCY STAFFERS who are desk bound and work long hours (i.e., everyone) Loop-based Animated Storyboards Chicago (ASB)encourages you to participate in a healthy activit...
WRITER/DIRECTOR LUCIA MAURO’S “In My Brother’s Shoes,” won “Best Short Film” in the prestigious ‘il Pesce d’ Argento’ (the Silver Fish) award from the Mir...
ACTOR JIM BELUSHI filed two lawsuits in relating to a failed deal with a local comedy owner. The first was a defamation suit seeking $50,000 in damages against Sahar Chavosh...
THE AICP NEXT AWARDS held last night in New York as part of AICP Week, presented its 2015 Most Next honor to Leo Burnett’s Allstate’s “Social Savvy Burglar.” As ...
“THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE” – the small screen adaptation of director Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 movie – starting June 9 will shoot city exteriors for four days. The 13...
SPIKE LEE’S $15 to $18 million feature that’s set to film June 1 to July 10 in Englewood and other South Side locations continues to be under fire by the city for its “C...
PRODUCER BOB TEITEL is scheduled to be back in his home town this August on the feature dramady, “Southside with You,” the story of Michelle Robinson and Barack Obama’s f...
SPIKE LEE has set up shop at Cinespace Studios to start prepping for his anti-violence comedy called “Chiraq,” to be budgeted at $15 million. It will start filming June 1 ...
MARK RUFFALO will receive the 2015 Renaissance Award from the Gene Siskel Film Center (GSFC) of the Art Institute of Chicago to celebrate his accomplishments as an actor, direc...
Filmmaker Spike Lee’s career will be celebrated during the 7th annual CIMMfest as “An Evening of Music, Film & Wine with Spike Lee,” spanning from his breakthrough 198...
FOX TV IS SO PLEASED at the cooperation, professionalism and ease of working here on the smash hit “Empire,” that it sent production of two pilots here. They started...
FILMWORKERS’ CREATIVE STAFF got a boost with the hire of colorist Jeff Altman, who returns to his home town after two years in New York as a colorist with Color Collective, w...
CHICAGO WAS THE FILM CAPITAL of the world 100 years ago, according to an excellent new book, "Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry," which reads more l...
NEWS AT THE TOP. Creative veteran Nancy Hannon has returned to Leo Burnett as EVP/ECD to oversee creative for Kraft and Kellogg’s brands, making it a full circle back to the ...
AN ALL-STAR PANEL OF EXPERTS from various sectors of film production will be worth braving the weather Sunday, Feb. 8, to hear their discussion of “How Different Media Disci...
“Who Gets the Dog?” the latest low-budget feature from Reid Brody and Bill Ryan’s 2D2 Productions and Epic Pictures Group gets underway Monday, Feb. 2 for three weeks.&...
CHICAGO CAN BOAST PRODUCTION HERE of two top-rated TV shows for Fox networks. Ratings for the Jan. 26 season opening of Towers Productions reality show "Strange Inheritance" w...
FIRST NEW AD BUSINESS of the year was announced by DDB Chicago, which has succeeded The Martin Agency on creative duties for the $30 million American Cancer Society account, f...
