In a shocking move certain to raise eyebrows and maybe even a few existential questions, Reel Chicago is bringing back its beloved founder and longtime publisher Ruth Ratny —...
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keyboard of founder
Ruth L. Ratny
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Chicago - May, 2003 - Illi...
Sixteen years ago,
Founder Ruth Ratny
reported on the
status of a highly
anticipated sequel
and the fate of
Chicago Studio City
Editor's Note: Beginning today, Re...
Returning to his roots at Cutters Studios Chicago s award-winning editor Cameron Yergler, after spending three years at Cutters New York, announced Cutters’ managing dire...
“Stranded by the State,” is a two-part documentary special presented by Urbana-based Illinois Public Media focusing on the long-term toll that the Illinois budget cris...
Wyoming, Michigan-based Lowing Light & Grip has bought Deano’s Studio in Grand Rapids. (Wyoming is an East Side suburb of Grand Rapids and the state’s 14th largest city...
ESAI MORALES (NYPD BLUE) is back on the beat with a new recurring role on “Chicago PD,” as Chief Lugo, a 30-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department. The new character...
Scott Jacobs, the ebullient former 18-year owner / president / EP of post house IPA in Bucktown paid me a pleasant, nostalgic visit last week to show me how to most effectively ...
NAMES IN THE NEWS. Industry veteran Tom Fletcher, the former Fletcher Camera & Lenses executive, was named director of sales at Fujifilm's optical devices division. In his n...
A 30-SECOND SPOT, "Our Bar" from FCB and produced by Radical Media for Michelob ULTRA — the fastest growing beer brand in the U.S. — bowed on Sunday’s Super Bowl.
The spo...
321 Fast Draw studio is currently working on unique animations for two high profile sporting events: A 2.5-minute segment for Fox TV’s Super Bowl’s Pre-Game Show this Sunday...
McDONALD’S FIRST WORK from its new agency, We are Unlimited Chicago, is a 60-second rap spot, “There’s a Big Mac for That.” The original composition, with a drum ma...
BORDEN® CHEESE TARGETS BUSY MOMS in an integrated campaign — including Martha Stewart’s Facebook Live show, the first for a cheese brand — from VSA Partners for marketing...
One at Optimus director Duncan Wolfe is packing up his Washington, D.C. apartment after a 14-month gig at the Obama White House and will head for Los Angeles as his base for the...
Final Cut, the London-headquartered post house with branches in New York and Los Angeles, is launching its Chicago office Thursday, Jan. 26 at a party expected to be well attend...
The Chicago Film Office (CFO) at the Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) announced Monday that local media and entertainment production reached record levels in...
Six of John Hughes’ iconic teen films are coming back to life, literally, at The Shermer Club: A John Hughes Fest, which also is recreating scenes that were part of the origi...
Last Friday the IFO / DCEO released its year-end summary of revenues from 2016 statewide film productions, stating they were $499 million, from 345 projects.Becoming half-billio...
