Brody and Ryan’s locally shot comedy feature in post
The third feature-length project from Reid Brody and Bill Ryan’s 2DS Productions has wrapped two weeks of local filming and has begun postproduction at Filmworkers Club
The third feature-length project from Reid Brody and Bill Ryan’s 2DS Productions has wrapped two weeks of local filming and has begun postproduction at Filmworkers Club
Let’s hear it for the little guys. If it wasn’t for the little guys — by that we mean the smaller shops that are part of the warp and woof
Let’s put it this way. It wasn’t a good sign.
Quietly. Ever so quietly, the deed was done. Not in the dark of night, exactly. But quietly. So as not to
RETURNING TO CHICAGO in a big way this September is actor, standup comic, author and radio personality Steve Harvey, who started his career here in radio at WGCI-FM 20 years
GOVERNOR’S L.A. UPDATE. Gov. Pat Quinn’s appointment schedule for next week has not been completely finalized, says a spokesperson for the governor, which kinda suggests that he just might be
SAG-AFTRA and the advertising industry agreed to postpone their previously-scheduled early negotiations of the union’s commercials contract, the union board announced Saturday. The current three-year contract expiring March, 31, 2013
Like the recently revealed Chicago Cultural Plan for expanding the arts, here is a film professional’s vision of how to move Chicago into the top tier of entertainment production.
Chicago needs
BEFORE SCIENTISTS at the CERN particle accelerator outside Geneva, Switzerland apparently discovered the long-sought Higgs Boson or “God Particle” earlier this month, 137 Films captured the ill-fated hunt by physicists
For the 11th year, the 48 Hour Film Project returns to Chicago starting the week of July 27 as filmmakers battle it out to complete an
Thirty-one screenwriters from Chicago and other Midwestern cities made the first cut in the Chicago Screenwriters Network’s second annual script contest. The 2012 contest attracted 130 entries which CSN president
It was a lovely evening for a graduation. It really was.
Nearly 100 people gathered on the verandah at the Museum of Contemporary Art Wednesday night for the formal graduation of
Hollywood transplants to the Chicago area, DeAnna and Kevin Cooper, have produced Chicago’s first stereoscopic 3D feature and possibly the first 3D comedy anywhere so far. The family comedy, <a
If you’re looking for some industry-related fun this weekend, bring your friends and sign up to be an extra to fill a church on Saturday and a bar on Sunday,
How depressing. For several weeks we studiously avoided watching the pilot for “The Pitch,” the new AMC cable series that takes us inside the ad industry to see how agencies
Columbia College will present honorary degrees to six prominent persons – three of them Chicagoans – in the entertainment, media and arts fields whose careers
Phil Contursi of Product Productions says he will be spending all four days at NAB next week in the AAdynTech booth, where he anticipates being busy with visitors wanting to
DIRECTOR ANDREW DAVIS made his mark as a rising star in 1978 with his first feature, “Stony Island,” about the fictitious Stony Island band, a fusion of rock, blues and
With the official announcement that production executive John Noble will head design/live action company Eyeball here, the company has the distinction of being the only New
In the eyes of a lot of local ad executives, the Chicago Cubs have just struck out. Big time.
The team lost a big chunk of potential fans from Chicago’s advertising
In a stunner that is sure to have major ramifications for Downtown Partners/Chicago, sources say Walgreens is launching an ad agency review. That could mean big problems for Downtown Partners/Chicago,