Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

“Truth hurts” tersely describes director Joe Otting’s new 8-minute short, “The Talk,” a life-changing conversation between a father and his 10-year old daughter that�...

Director Michael Bay’s much-discussed “Transformers 5,” now known by the working title of “E75,” has started preproduction and will begin shooting in London, with addi...

Fast-growing 321Fastdraw, having outgrown its offices and its owners eager to be back in the bustle of production, in early spring will move into new space in Cinespace’s Main...

Not only was it wonderful that Chicago Film Archives received a $200,000 2016 MacArthur Foundation Award, but that it was the only film recipient among the nonprofit Creati...

Cinespace continues to expand -- this time with the conversion of two former massive “Boss” sets into office space to accommodate the Fox TV staff moving in for the upcoming...

Enterpreneur/filmmaker Charlie Stone and partners Brian Rolling and Kate Weidner have formed “an agency without walls” that they named, simply, SRW, in an office in Ful...

CONSPIRACY ADDS TWO: Kyle Howard, a former New York editor, specializing in fashion and beauty commercials, to its West Loop-based staff, and New York-based Namakula to for Midw...

Screenwriter Frederick Mensch, celebrating his 20th anniversary as the owner of MovieBytes, a top screenplay contest resource, will be the featured speaker at the Chicago S...

Second City’s Harold Ramis Film School is slated to accept its first class of students in September.  “The world’s first film school dedicated to comedy” was named ...

The Team Companies’ Chicago staff of four will set up its new Chicago offices the first week of March in 2,600-sq. ft. space at 230 W. Superior, “where we’ll grow the staf...

Hear this! Audio Recording Unlimited’s (ARU) engineering staff was nominated for a 2016 Motion Picture Sound Engineers’ (MPSE) Golden Reel award for their sound work on...

The size of third-generation, family-owned Shaker Recruitment Advertising & Communications of Oak Park has more than doubled through the recent merger with Chicago...

ArcLight Cinemas, the LA-based luxury movie theatre chain that opened its first location outside of LA here, in Lincoln Park last October, will give “going out for dinner and ...