Puppet master and stop-motion specialist join Tessa Films’ roster Meghann Artes and Toben Seymour have joined the directorial roster at Tessa Films. The duo arrives at Tessa Films with skillsets
State Farm will have the McDonald’s agency business model with possibly a couple of co-op vendors on the side to go, according to a report in Adweek. Taking a page
The Chicago/Midwest chapter of the National Academy Arts and Sciences announced nominees last Thursday night at Rockit Bar and Grill. Hosted by WCIU’s “The Jam” team of Jordan Cornette, Danielle
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Writer-director Lucia Mauro’s debut feature, “One Year Later,” that filmed in Chicago and Italy, premieres Sept. 18 at Loyola University Medical Center’s new research facility in Maywood during
Comcast SportsNet Chicago (CSN/C) received Major League Baseball’s last minute invitation Thursday, Dec. 10 to join its historic Cuban good
Last week definitely was not a good week for Chicago advertising, with major accounts moving to New York agencies and
Producer/director Carl Amari’s mega, $5 million celebrity voice, word-for-word dramatization of the Bible will get underway in Chicago April 20
THE COLONIE won’t be exhibiting the work of new artists on its walls, as it usually does for its parties. The big attraction at
R/GA RAMPED UP its 4-year old Chicago digital
AFTER A SHORT STINT at McGarryBowen where he worked on the equally short-lived Bud Light account, executive creative director Mike Roe returned to Energy BBDO the start of the New
Finally. At last. What had seemed an interminable wait is over. The long talked about — but slow to materialize — speakers series promised by the Chicago chapter of the American
So. Here we go. We’re now barely 12 weeks into the new adventure in beer advertising that is the Chicago-based Cavalry agency. We don’t want to overstate the matter, but
SECOND CITY ANNOUNCED their first theater opening outside North America.
Did someone mention turnaround? Yes, for the first time in a very long time, there are substantial signs of a discernible, hope-engendering turnaround in the fortunes of Chicago’s beleaguered advertising
The affectionate trailer for “Shark Song,” a fictional feel-good story created by The Whitehouse’s assistant editor Caleb Hepler, was the grand prize winner at the 10th annual AICE trailer editing
EVERYONE HERE who worked on the Chicago-set, Chicago-filmed “Boss” – all the unions, the Cinespace owners, all of us who believe in our industry and want to see it thrive –
HoneyTech’s security training videos are eminently watchful, “mostly CGI with a high-tech feel– think ?Tron’ or ?The Matrix’ — because we wanted to change things,” says company president Lance Spitzner.
Mark Ohlsen’s LRS, Chicago’s largest audio studio specializing in foreign languages, has a roster of 265 foreign-speaking voiceovers, who can deliver 30 different languages?from commonly called-for Spanish to obscure Laotian
PATRICK READ JOHNSON of Moonwatcher Films has entered the third and final round of shooting for his feature “5-25-77.”
Johnson shoots the film’s climactic “Star Wars”
