Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

NEW ZEALAND'S CURIOUS FILM has dived into the North America market with the appointment of Chris Breneman as Head of Sales USA, based in Chicago. He’s now the link to all thi...

Bob Hercules, whose Media Process Group has been producing the only documentary about the life of writer and Civil Rights activist Maya Angelou, and felt very close to her, sa...

Services will be held Saturday for Matthew J Brennock, managing partner/executive creative director at Momentum Worldwide and widely acknowledged as a great creative mind, who ...

SCREENWRITER/ADMAN COLIN COSTELLO, who’s been living in LA working in advertising and writing screenplays for the past 18 months, is back home for a visit and will be a speci...

Picture Show Films, Jamie Fleischel and Matt Leonard’s 13-year old family-owned company whose diverse productions span The Onion A.V. Club, Mercedes Benz, Allstate and a Cat...

In this age of electronic music and music licensing, Greg Allan’s Sonixphere went retro for its long-time client, The Richards Group of Dallas.  Not only was Sonixphere�...

SMASHING PUMPKINS’FRONTMAN Billy Corgan will become the star of a reality TV series – not about music as one would expect, but wrestling.  Corgan is the creative direc...

Cutters Studios and its design division Flavor were among four post houses that came away with top awards from the AICE Awards gala presentation in New York last Friday – on...

It’s official. Cineverse is the bright new name of what had been VER Digital since its purchase of 28 year old Fletcher Cameras last January.  The new name is the brain...

After 17 years at Filmworkers, Rob Churchill is now officially a brand. When he suggested to Filmworkers' president Reid Brody that he needed people so they could handle sever...

Four Chicago filmmakers will have visible places at the Cannes Film Festival, May 14-25 as speakers and to premiere their films in front of an international audience gathering...

Ace editor Dean Gonzales, who honed his craft in LA for 15 years, joined Beast Editorial, saying Beast “seemed like a perfect fit,” with its national network, support sta...

NOTHING HAD BEEN HEARD from executive producer Michael Antonnuci since December, 2012, when he departed from Utopic, the production/post company he had co-founded three years ...

The marriage of two agencies that analysts doubted would work was called off before the wedding.  Publicis Groupe and Omnicom Group terminated their $35 billion proposed me...

The sole pilot that shot in Chicago this year, happily has turned into a series.  Fox TV announced yesterday that dramatic “Empire” was picked up as a series for a s...

Perhaps one of the most important documentaries about the Holocaust, about an unknown Washington diplomat who fought to awaken America to Hitler’s plan to annihilate the Jews ...

EIGHTEEN OF THE LATEST and greatest product innovations will be Thursday, May 8 at Key Code Media's Post NAB Technology Expo, being held at the LA-based company's new Chicago of...

As the country’s leading casino advertising agency, it was not all that unusual for RPM Advertising to have a slot machine in its office.  The 20-year vintage “Groovy...

Ten of Hollywood’s best known, busiest and emerging screenwriters, whose credits appear shows like “Scandal,” “Parks and Recreation” and “The Pirates of the C...