Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

Producer/director Darryl Pitts’ indie biopic, "The Rhythm and the Blues," is based on true story of a family of Mississippi-born blues musicians who came North during the Gre...

The pilot for “Chiraq,” a dramatic TV series about gang rivalry set in Chicago’s troubled South Side neighborhoods, created and produced by William Pierce of Filmquest, ...

Towers Productions’ reality TV series "Strange Inheritance," the half-hour series Jonathan Towers created and produced for the Fox Business Network (FBN) is heading for a sec...

All good things that must come to an end, and so Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios, the 26-year old production company and 170,000-sq. ft. four-building studio complex she owns,...

The spotlight will be on the best of Chicago advertising March 11 when the Chicago Advertising Federation hosts its annual awards gala at the Museum of Broadcast Communication...

Havas Worldwide has officially opened its newly 81,000-sq. ft. office-less Havas Chicago Village, renovated at a cost of $18 million that incorporates all of its many serv...

OLIVER PLATT (“The Big C”) is the latest lead actor to join the ensemble cast of “Chicago Med,” the upcoming planted spinoff series of “Chicago Fire.” He will play...

An animated 60-second video for Mike’s Hard Lemonade, a flavored malt beverage, was created by Sarofsky Corp. for Tris3ct’s client Mike's Hard Lemonade Co. and launched on...

For client ComEd, multicultural agency Carol H. Williams Advertising Chicago created the "Power of Possibilities" video campaign, partnering with the Remix Project Chicago to he...

After the enthusiastic response to an NBC comedy pilot that its executive producer, Mick Napier, screened for friends last summer, the Annoyance Theatre founder/artistic dire...

LAPIZ’ NEW CREATIVE DIRECTOR is Brazilian Carlos Murad, moving to the Chicago headquarters of Leo Burnett’s Hispanic division, to lead brands Purina Latin America, Kellogg...

Producer/director David Huzieran of Strange Loop Studios was in New York last week helming a sports lover’s dream of an assignment. He and his crew were shooting “The Mic...

In this season of gilt-edged motion picture awards, it is gratifying and rewarding that Chicago is making an appearance among the innumerable categories of endeavor that go in...

The new director of the Illinois Film Office is Christine T. Dudley, a long-time Republican political, public and government affairs consultant, who will assume her new role T...

“Chicago Med,” the talked about third panel of Dick Wolf’s popular “Chicago” triptych, is looming as a sure thing as seven new characters will be introduced in “C...

Fox Television has greenlit two dramatic pilots for production in Chicago. “Love is a Four Letter Word” and “Runner” will headquarter and shoot at Cinespace, joining ...

Producer Erik Crary and director Steven Piet's first feature will be among the 145 indie films from famous international directors, actors and first time filmmakers screenin...