The Rosemont-based world champion Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps play an original song they wrote in the lively 30-second spot that One at Optimus’ team of Mark Pallman and Am...
The Escape Pod has hired Jared Creason in the new position of creative director, from Minneapolis, where he’d been Olson’s creative director, after freelancing in Los Angele...
Film producer Reid Brody’s comedy, “Who Gets the Dog?” is being released today, Sept. 13 on iTunes, worldwide digital platforms, Video on Demand and DVD by Samuel Goldwyn ...
Media Process Group’s feature doc, “Maya Angelou: And still I Rise,” the first documentary on the late author, poet and Civil Rights activist, will have a two-week US thea...
“YEAR OF THE SNAKE,” called by its filmmaker, Nic Collins, “a sci-fi, punk rock, genre-bending omedy webseries about a lovable, childish alien named Snake,” is now avail...
SEPTEMBER IS NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS MONTH and it kicked off with Schafer Condon Carter (SCC), The Ad Council and FEMA’s Ready Campaign of PSAs and online videos that help famil...
The Mill is expanding in the Midwest with a collaboration with Detroit’s full-service Hudson Edit, allowing their clients to share connected projects for color, visual effects...
The 4th annual SCOUT Chicago Festival will display Chicago’s world famous comedy and improv talent this weekend, Sept. 9-12, to invited bicoastal TV network and LA talent agen...
The work of area-wide filmmakers, who raced the clock to produce a short film for the 12th 48 Hour Film Project over the Aug. 27 weekend, will screen Sunday and Monday, Sept. 11...
Two features and a reported TV series will be adding to the ever-lengthening slate of Chicago-based productions, which is “only the tip of the iceberg of what the industry is ...
FCB veteran Jon Flannery returns to FCB Chicago on Oct. 1 as EVP/executive creative director, after leading FCB Toronto for two years – and marking the first appointee of Liz ...
SCI-FI FEATURE “DAY 1” writer / director Jose Carlos Gomez of Skibofilms Productions, recently won Best Writer award from the Prairie State Film Festival, was nominated for ...
Julian Grant has every reason to keep the faith. The award-winning director’s 33rd film, feature drama “Finding Hope,” will have its Midwest premiere Sunday, Sept. 11, at ...
Director Peter Bogdanovich (“The Last Picture Show” 1971) will be the recipient of a Gold Hugo Lifetime Achievement Award from the 52nd Chicago International Film Festival, ...
The bitter rivalry between DDB vs. Burnett. Publicis vs. Omnicom. Keith vs. Leo, for the billion dollar prize, brought to us by McDonald’s, with a cast of bleary-eyed creative...
John Scaletta’s and Craig Bass’ La Grange-based video production company Motion Source recently produced a series of 26 promotional product and “How To” videos for Walgr...
Executive producer/writer Blake Anthony of Blake Anthony Inc. is in the process of purchasing a Utah-based distribution company that will combine production and distribution exc...
The feature getting rave reviews as it makes the festival rounds is a notable first for both writer / director Ned Crowley, more famously known as McGarryBowen’s US chief crea...
Thanks to NBC, Fox TV, Amazon and other TV shows, features, and the large number of media and entertainment projects filming here, Chicago is ascending into the rarified strata ...
The Mill Chicago continues to expand its local staff with the addition of a creative director originally from the Mill London and a senior producer and bolster it with three pro...
