You know that crazy dream you had last night? Rhyan LaMarr could make it happen in reality.
He’s been a director since high school, with more than ten years of experience ...
CMA Digital Studios (CMADS) has created a potentially life-changing opportunity for filmmakers and content creators in Illinois.
The company's 2018 Content Initiative will i...
The Colonie has promoted and hired several employees to accommodate a surge in broadcast and social media work that began in 2017, according to a press release issued today.
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Leo Burnett’s first commercial for Serta’s new campaign uses Monty Python styled humor to make an effective selling point.
Titled, Rick Blomquist, the spot relies on the...
Kinzie Street Studio’s upcoming weekly series What’s On Tap adds a most essential ingredient to the food and travel show menu: beer.
Lots and lots of beer.
“Servin...
According to an ongoing study at San Diego State University, a mere 18% of 2017’s top 500 grossing films were directed by women.
In other words, audiences are missing out....
Chicago performer Erv Dahl plays Rodney Dangerfield in the recently released Netflix movie, A Futile and Stupid Gesture, about the rise and fall of National Lampoon magazine.
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BETC Paris earned Best of Show nods in two categories of the 2017 Mobius Awards, which were announced on February 1.
Founded in 1971, the Mobius Awards is an annual culminati...
If not for Black people, the United States would be a pretty boring place to live.
So much of our popular culture is rooted in the experience of African Americans that it’...
On Monday night at Lagunitas Brewing Company’s Chicago Taproom, the Chicago Underground Film Festival’s “Untapped Fundraiser” will kick off a series of events in celebra...
On his way to becoming one of the hottest young filmmakers in America, Rhyan LaMarr has proven just about every self-motivational cliché in the book.
He was raised by divor...
Showtime has ordered a second season of The Chi, a coming-of-age drama set in Chicago that has averaged four million weekly cross-platform viewers since debuting on January 7.
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Leo Burnett persuaded Kraft to bench the Hollywood celebrities and let real families take the field during this year’s Super Bowl.
In a 30-second teaser titled “Calling A...
Women and minorities represented 53% of all crew hires reported in 2017, according to a January 25 press release issued by the Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportu...
charlieuniformtango has tapped Chicagoan Will Andeer to handle business development and sales for the Midwest and Southeast.
Andeer is not only well rounded, but also, accord...
#womencrush music will host its inaugural Chicago event with a female music showcase Saturday, Jan. 27, at the HVAC Pub in Wrigleyville. On the bill: Baby Money & The Down Payme...
O'Keefe Reinhard & Paul (OKRP) capitalized on the timeless hilarity of a football-to-the-groin in Who Wouldn’t, a Groupon commercial set to air during the fourth quarter of Su...
The 34th annual Chicago Latino Film Festival poster is a testament to the universal power of art.
Featuring a strip of film that runs like a sidewalk through a broken wall i...
Chicago-born rapper Fredo Santana died last week of a seizure in Los Angeles. The 27-year-old artist, born Derrick Coleman, was a key player in the Drill music genre widely rega...
When Tandem Inc. arrived in San Antonio to shoot a Humana project on November 30th, Larry Macon had completed 1,999 marathons in his life.
Five days later, as the 72-year-ol...
