“Love Boat” skipper here in dramatic role
GAVIN MacLEOD, fondly remembered as “The Love Boat’s” skipper and Mary Tyler Moore’s fellow TV newswriter, will be the special guest June 8 at the screening
GAVIN MacLEOD, fondly remembered as “The Love Boat’s” skipper and Mary Tyler Moore’s fellow TV newswriter, will be the special guest June 8 at the screening
The 2009 Advertising Woman of the Year is Draftfcb’s managing director Karen Sauder. She is the latest on a lengthy list of agency leaders who were named to
IFO DIRECTOR BETSY STEINBERG is optimistic that Chicago will enjoy “a very busy summer” of Hollywood entertainment projects, based on the calls the offices has been fielding
When it comes to TV commercial awards shows, the number of Chicago winners is usually in the low single digits, and those winners tend to be the big, familiar names.
“THE MERRY GENTLEMEN,” the all-Chicago feature that was shot here in 2007, is being distributed theatrically by Samuel Goldwyn Co. May 1 in Chicago, New York and Los
THE AUDIENCE AWARD for the best documentary went to Fulton Market Films’ “Being Bucky,” at the recent Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, one of only films so
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
THREE GOLD AURORA 2008 AWARDS for documentaries went to Bitter Jester Creative, a creative content company in Highland Park that’s led by CD Nicolas DeGrazia, DP
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
ACCORDING TO RELIABLE SOURCES, one of the A-List L.A. directors, who came here for the Leo Burnett/Olympic Committee shoot last week, got into a bit of trouble at
DRAFTFCB ADDED TWO TOP CREATIVES, industry veterans Doug Behm and Jon Flannery as SVP/CDs to work on the agency’s KFC account.
Since
Although his screenplays have been contest finalists, Colin Costello won his first screenwriting prize last week in the comedy category from the 2008 Annual FilmMakers International Screenplay Awards, Los Angeles.
ACTRESS HELEN HUNT was in Chicago last weekend with Chelsea Pictures/L.A. to direct a 60-second spot for Frito-Lay’s new TrueNorth healthy snack brand that will air on the
IRONICALLY, GOV. BLAGOJEVICH was going to sign the Illinois 30% tax credit bill into law next Monday at Essanay Studios! The unconfirmed signing ceremony was being set
PRACTICALLY EVERY INDIE FILMMAKERS turned out 350 strong at Rockit Bar & Grill Tuesday for Midwest Independent Film Festival’s annual awards and first-time fund-raiser.
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.
FLASHPOINT ACADEMY named former agency producer Linda Wolfe director of student placement, a new position, announced Flashpoint president/CEO Howard Tullman.
When Mindy Verson learned that pop sensation Backstreet Boys were going to perform at Ravinia in late August, she picked up the phone and called her old friend, their manager.
THE PRESSURE IS OFF for another six months so the actors’ unions and the ad industry can hammer out a mutually satisfactory Commercials Contract.