Columnist: Mike Morgan

Lisa Donohue, CEO of Starcom USA, has added still another award to the lengthy list of honors she’s accumulated over the past 24 years as a leading light of Starcom and MediaV...

A veritable who’s who of social media experts from Chicago’s biggest companies are being signed up for the first Social Media Week Chicago along with hosts, events and in-ki...

Cursing your luck because you didn’t order your Lollapalooza tickets soon enough and now it’s a sell out?  No worries.  Haul out the beer and watch the concerts on...

THE 48 HOUR PROJECT is gearing up for the July 29-31 Chicago challenge to see who can make the best short film, from script to screen, in 48 hours.  Any team, regardle...

THE COMEBACK of commercial production business this past year is a sure signal that the economy is rebounding, as production expenditures are up by 5% and nearly back to 2008 le...

Handsome, likeable Rob Lowe, who stars in NBC’s Parks and Recreation, looks eerily like accused Bolingbrook wife killer Drew Peterson in the Lifetime move, Untouchable, now in...

It was just a matter of time before Hollywood latched into the story of Drew Peterson.  A Lifetime movie is swinging into production about the former Bolingbroke cop, who h...

Chalk up another innovative addition to Fletcher Camera & Lenses services. The high-end equipment house is now renting and managing the deployment of Burbank-based FotoKem�...

Steve James, Kartemquin’s celebrated documentarian says he believes “We are living in a Golden Age for documentary filmmaking,” as he gets ready to fly to Britain this wee...

FREAKY DEAKY, one of Elmore Leonard’s comedy crime capers, will film in the author’s native Detroit – the first of his 14 novels adapted for the movies to be shot entirely...

SERIES CANCELED. Chicago wasn’t the only location outside of L.A. to lose a big network TV series last week.  On Friday the 13th, ABC canceled Detroit 1-8-7. Like Fox’s...

Giannini Creative has pooled its resources with Filmworkers Club, giving agencies the convenience of working with a single creative partner across multiple media platforms.The c...

Michigan film workers will rally Sunday, April 17, for a non-stop, 15 hour webathon to raise money to fund a TV spot campaign, in an effort to influence the legislature to maint...

WHILE A SECOND SEASON of ABC’s “Detroit 1-8-7” won’t be decided until May, “Hung” – the HBO series set in Metro Detroit – will be around for another season, than...