Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

Better late than never, they say. And so six months after its announced July release date, Warner Bros. will release "Jupiter Ascending," on Feb. 6. Writer/directors and prod...

February Black History Month in Chicago starts off Sunday, Feb. 1 with a program of three rare films (one shot on Super 8), about the city’s first black mayor, Harold Washi...

Out of the 34 highly anticipated spots airing on Sunday’s Super Bowl XLIX, 15 of them are newcomers to the annual television spectacular that 100 million Americans are expe...

This time next year, Rosemary and David Deahl’s Big Deahl Productions should be settled into its new Los Angeles area location, as David Deahl continues his lengthy, a...

Little did Particle/Onda’s Steven Aguilar know when he was asked to handle sound for director Brad Besser’s feature doc, "Beaver Trilogies Part IV," that it would screen at...

Craig Leffel’s inaugural project for his new company took off in a big way — a Delta Airlines’ online spot that was directed by Sam Ciaramitaro, a multi Cannes Gold Lion...

For the first time since the Illinois Film Office's Production Guide switched from print to a digital publication, sometime in the mid-‘90s (to the best of anyone’s re...

SCC president David Selby will be in good company when he receives the Chicago Advertising Federation’s Silver Medal award at a luncheon in his honor Thursday at the Montgom...

“Strange Inheritance,” a new half-hour cable series from a redefined Towers Productions that was eight months in production, starts airing Monday, Jan. 26 on Fox Busin...

THE FIRST SPOT for Ald. Bob Fioretti’s (2nd) mayoral campaign — produced, shot and edited by the alderman’s video team leader, Jerry Vasilatos — has rolled out on...

Politics being politics, Illinois Film Office director Betsy Steinberg's paycheck yesterday also contained a pink slip, telling her that Friday, Jan. 16 would be her final day ...

When The Mill makes its unprecedented move into its four-story, 22,000-sq. ft. building sometime in late summer, it will be the largest visual media company located in the bu...

Kelli and Estlin Feigley Dreaming Tree Films’ upcoming show has the distinction of being WTTW/11’s only locally-produced children’s series to air among its 12 hours of ...

After a 15 year absence including 11 years working for a bicoastal editorial company, producer Heather Richardson decided it was time to come home.  On Jan. 5 she joined...

A rugged Chicago and Korean production crew braved the freezing cold last Monday and Tuesday nights to work on a massive commercial shoot in the heart of the Loop for a 2015 H...

That sound clinking champagne glasses you hear is coming from the deservedly ecstatic producers, cast and crew of “Empire,” which bowed on Fox network Wednesday night to a...