Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

The new three-year master contract between SAG AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) covering movie and primetime TV work “is very benefici...

For her entire career in the camera business, Zoe Borys of Cineverse (formerly Fletcher Camera) has been servicing and supporting the camera equipment needs of an ever-widenin...

World-renowned director/photographer Sandro brought his portrait artistry to a two-video docu-style campaign, “Inspired by Authenticity,” for agency Sacramento, Cal.-based ...

A SPECIAL CELEBRITY FLAVOR has been added to Taste of Chicago festivities Thursday, July 10. By special invitation from the city, Elysabeth Alfano’s “The Dinner Party” wi...

When Magnanimous Media HD video camera rentals moved from a small Bridgeport storefront to a large East Pilsen space last September, the company downsized its former 1,000-sq....

DON’T EXPECT THE DGA to fill the executive director’s position in the Chicago office anytime soon – if at all.  The LA-based DGA has told ReelChicago that “no hir...

The turnout for last Thursday’s first “Chicago Film & TV Industry Networking Event and Pitches” was “a ridiculously amazing turnout and so great for this city,” ...

Last weekend, 24 of the most important and influential talent agents and casting directors -- from places like Dreamworks, Comedy Central, Fox, ABC and CBS and famous talent ...

The Force is with us! It’s a triumph that the George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art elected to settle in Chicago instead of Lucas’ native San Francisco, where he founded Lu...

Versatile, multi-honored, Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Kline,  whose body of work spans four decades, from comedy to serious dramas, will receive a well deserved Lif...

THE NEWS OF CH. 11 axing of dedicated and capable Holly Gilson was disheartening.  In a statement explaining her termination, the station praised her to the sky, calling he...

  What appears to be Chicago’s first open mike film pitch, so to speak, will take place as part of a broader collaborative networking evening called “Chicago Film &...

Andy and Lana Wachowski’s first-ever TV series will start a production roll of three new TV series filming here this summer and fall, making up for the parched spell of TV ...

CRAMER-KRASSELT CHAIRMAN /CEO Peter Krivkovich candid internal memo Wednesday telling the staff why the agency fired two-year old client Panera Bread. He said whatever they di...

Credit Leviathan for design and production of the film noir main titles for Starz new original series, "Power," produced by rapper 50 Cent (formally Curtis Jackson) and create...

Howard Tullman, CEO of 1871, the Chicago-based entrepreneurial hub for digital startups, is one of Music Dealers’ four new senior appointments in forwarding its goal of “b...

The first project for Bridges Media’s new post division, 11 Dollar Bill, is editing a 10-part reality series for agency Super Genius set to air in August on Velocity, a Disco...

A new concept in audio post that the partners believe will stir things up opened Monday in two different locations and with a female engineer/sound designer at the helm of on...