Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

In what has the elements of a movie in itself, a pair of non-pro filmmakers get together and turn the basic themes of a short story into an $865,000 crime-drama feature that wil...

Here’s your first look at the some of the first of 50 panels and workshops that will be presented at CIMMcon, April 16-17, the Midwest’s premiere Film, Music and Tech Confer...

At the American Advertising Federation 2016 ADDY Awards last Wednesday night, Energy BBDO was the top winner with a record-setting 93 awards topped by earning the Best in S...

Joe Swanberg, Chicago’s well known and most prolific micro-budget indie producer, is moving into television, with a series called “Easy,” for Netflix, which has been maki...

Gray Talent Group client Justin Cornwell flew to Los Angeles this week to start filming his co-starring role with Bill Paxton in “Training Day,” a Warner Bros. pilot for CBS...

Seven years ago, on March 24, actor Jim Belushi and other Friends of Bill Hogan hosted a fundraiser on behalf of the former Teamsters official to help him pay legal fees to defe...

Energy BBDO’s 2016 Super Bowl spot, the 90-second “Bud Light Coin” for ABinBev that aired in the game’s fourth quarter, was one of the eight Best of Show winners in the ...

This year’s Chicago advertising agency band competition, “Battle for Hope,” is looking to raise $60,000 that will send 120 kids from Off the Street Club to summer camp and...

“CHICAGOMADE” EVENTS will be on display at SXSW, March 11-16 in Austin, Texas, as the first-of-its-kind collaboration between DCASE (Dept. of Cultural Affairs & Special ...

“The Founder,” a biopic of Ray Kroc, the Oak Park native who turned hamburger restaurant in Southern California into the world’s largest restaurant franchise, is now in pr...

Bradley Bischoff, a staff commercial editor at agency McGarryBowen’s in-house facility, has been steadily producing notable short films — leading up to his first feature thi...

TV UPDATE. “Empire” has wrapped its second season, with elegant scenes filmed at the Drake Hotel that lit up Michigan Ave. the past two days.  Fox TV’s hit serie...

The Chicago AAF Addys are taking heat from Adweek columnist Kat Gordon for mistaking 2016 for 1955 by having put together an all-male, all white jury to chose the winners for th...

The month of March came in like a lion for agency O’Keefe Reinhard & Paul (OKRP) with the launch of its massive broadcast / digital campaign for client Ace Hardware.The ca...

Director Joe Sedelmaier reigned supreme as an advertising game changer, innovator, provocateur, giving America such ground-breaking commercials as Wendy’s “Where’s the Bee...

After more than two years in the works, Chicago Filmmakers on Friday closed on its purchase of the city-owned Chicago landmark firehouse in Edgewater and will start converting i...