Some years ago, spot editor Yamus (real name Jim Mudra) was working on a PSA spot. The footage involved many children and atmospheres, related his friend and colleague Red
It’s an understatement to say that it was Chicago’s night at the 2010 Hugo International Awards for Television Excellence.
DDB, Draftfcb and Leo Burnett
GARY, INDIANA WILL DOUBLE for the Urkaine in “Transformers 3,” which is a welcome twist as all too many times European cities are passed off as U.S. locales,
Come mid-January, John McGrath will be living the life that many of us can only dream about — free from responsibilities and free to do the things he’s always
After spending a year running her own solo rep firm and realizing she missed the collaboration inherent in a creative company, Melissa Thornley happily returned to the postproduction business last
JOYCE KILBURG, the Illinois Film Office’s diversity officer, was seriously injured Wednesday night when the taxi she was riding crashed into a tree. She was heading home
NOT EVERYONE gets the pleasure and satisfaction of working with their mother, but Oscar winner Virginia Madsen teamed up with her filmmaker mom, Elaine
Chicago actor/director Morocco Omari won the Best Short Film Award from the recent Hollywood Black Film Festival for “The (Mis)Leading Man,” produced by casting director Sharon King, MJ Allen and
“We Believe,” the authorized Chicago Cubs documentary, debuts locally June 2 at the cutting-edge the theatre in theWit, the new Loop hotel, before an invitational audience.
MALACHI LEOPOLD IS BOUND FOR THE SUDAN, thanks to a $10,000 grant he received in order to make the expenses of the trip. He departs April
LOVE IS IN THE AIR for the first Hollywood project to be shot in Chicago so far this year, breaking the nine-month dry spell and portending more
One of the city’s favorite sound designer /mixers, David Gerbosi, is gearing up for a month of work on a big package of Anheuser-Busch/DDB Super Bowl spots in his new
SARAH PALIN SHOWS GOOD TASTE in her choice of movie faves.<!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on
COLONIE, A NEW EDITING BOUTIQUE, has been formed by four former Avenue Edit veterans: Producer Mary Rieger and editors Brian Stepanic, Bob Ackerman and Joe
The Illinois Lottery’s $500,000 holiday TV commercial will be produced by a “collaborative effort” between Illinois-based Gobos Film & Entertainment and the New York production company she represents.
Music house Comma has opened a Los Angeles branch for the second time in nearly a decade, and this time will be the charm.
Chicago composer Justin
The brave new technology world that fractured old models has created numerous new ways to break old boundaries in doing business in the visual media industry today.
With recapitalization recently completed, full-service commercial post house Avenue plans to gear up and aggressively move into the areas of internet content and spot production, said owner/CEO Jonathan Turk.
Culminating in six years of development, Steppenwolf Films’ first film, “Diminished Capacity,” opened July 4 to generally good reviews by major film critics.
Shooting on location soon might become an unnecessary expense as producers increasingly turn to the use of pre-shot motion content.
“People don’t need to
