Columnist: Dan Patton

"King Ripple" is a "Stand by Me" kind of adventure delivered in a David Lynch kind of vehicle In December, director Luke Jaden finished production on King Ripple, a...

The five online spots that Tyler Jay's Tandem, Inc. produced and directed for GrubHub and Seamless generated enough buzz to convince the meal ordering service to move one of t...

“Pause of the Clock,” Chicago director Rob Christopher’s film about young adults who confront the struggle for identity and push the boundaries of trust, recently wrappe...

Veteran sound designer Bob Benson joined the mix at ARU’s production and post suite last week, beoming its sixth audio engineer and tenth staff member. Wielding a range of exp...

"French CATastrophe," a film by Chicago-based husband and wife team Michael Gabriele and Alana Grelyak, snagged the prestigious “Golden Litter Scoop” award at the 2015 Cat...

Jerry Bryant has put up for sale his massive, one-of-a-kind JBTV archive of 30,000 remastered, first generation digibeta music videos from the ‘80s, ‘90s and 2000s in order...

Distinguished author Adam Morgan fittingly celebrated the release of his new book by leading a discussion at DDB Chicago, one of the shops where he had worked during his 17 yea...

Chicago filmmaker Ilko Davidov is storming into 2015 like a polar vortex. Besides signing a distribution deal for the 2015 Nelson Algren doc that he co-roduced and co-direct...

The new president of the Chicago Acting in Film Meetup (CAFM) is Erin Chenoweth, who was living in LA and working in New York until May, when she decided to move to Chic...

This afternoon, the 2,000 clients on Odd Machine’s Email list will receive a holiday greeting that is probably the most unique message to come out of the industry on this, o...

This week, Bob Farnsworth, founder and CEO of Nashville's Hummingbird Productions, will visit five Chicago agencies to demonstrate how they can use “Fusic,” a collaborative ...

Twin filmmaking brothers Billy and Matt Flanagan transformed their lifelong admiration for the comedy "Dumb & Dumber" into a video that solidified their rank among the mov...

Last October, Luke Jaden joined forces with producer Cort Johns and composer John Beltran to launch Troika — a film financing development company based in Chicago with a mu...

Last month, Gyro, a London-headquartered marketing firm that’s been in Chicago since 2008, unveiled its new Wrigley Building office, a customized environment that successful...

Cutters Studios' 6th annual Bloodbath in Wonderland Halloween party, unquestionably the biggest private bash in the production industry, anywhere, was attended by an estimate...

Barkers bark and pitch men pitch, but sometimes it’s the monster who sells. For more than a century, ghosts, giants and beasts representing brands have met or exceeded thei...

Emmy nominated writer/producer Melissa Berg brings a wealth of network television experience to her new producer’s role at Plum Productions. She replaces Kellye Blosser, who...

Filmmaker Tim Ferrin learned about children’s folk singer Ella Jenkins when he was a kid in music class listening to songs like “Did You Feed My Cow?” He remembers that hi...

The world’s biggest commercial, produced by Schafer Condon Carter for Rotary Club International, featuring 120,000 on-camera images from every corner of the earth and running...