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Grant to Waterfront Fest will create new film center

By Mike Morgan Mar 18, 2016

The popular, annual Waterfront Film Festival of Holland will skip this summer’s event and return in 2017 after having transformed into a year-round Gene Siskel-like film cente...

Using a film as marriage proposal? Why not, it works

By Colin Costello Mar 16, 2016

When it comes to changing beliefs or persuasion, filmmaking has always been a powerful tool. But has a movie ever been created to propose spending a lifetime together?In short, ...

Swanberg producing “Easy” Chicago-set Netflix series

By Ruth L Ratny Mar 16, 2016

Joe Swanberg, Chicago’s well known and most prolific micro-budget indie producer, is moving into television, with a series called “Easy,” for Netflix, which has been maki...

Actor Justin Cornwell lands co-star role in CBS pilot

By Ruth L Ratny Mar 16, 2016

Gray Talent Group client Justin Cornwell flew to Los Angeles this week to start filming his co-starring role with Bill Paxton in “Training Day,” a Warner Bros. pilot for CBS...

Britt Nolan: Burnett’s new US chief creative officer

By Mike Morgan Mar 14, 2016

EVP/Executive Creative Director Britt Nolan was promoted to the US chief creative officer position left vacant since Susan Credle departed last June for FCB New York.Rich Stodda...

Doc on former Teamster leader Bill Hogan in progress

By Ruth L Ratny Mar 14, 2016

Seven years ago, on March 24, actor Jim Belushi and other Friends of Bill Hogan hosted a fundraiser on behalf of the former Teamsters official to help him pay legal fees to defe...

Will “T5” be Michael Bay’s last “Transformer” film?

By Mike Morgan Mar 14, 2016

Will “Transformers 5” be director Michael Bay’s last “Transformers” film in the $3 billion franchise?? That’s what he told Rolling Stone. "I'm doing Transformers ......

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SXSW will be enhanced by the presence of Chicago pros

By Ruth L Ratny Mar 13, 2016

A MCGARRYBOWEN CONTINGENT and Comma Music’s Managing Director Bonny Dolan are heading for SXSW for a Thursday, March 17 panel called “Inside Out: How Did This Song Get into ...

Videos create awareness of bullying in healthcare places

By Colin Costello Mar 13, 2016

The audience for training videos on how to change workplace bullying, produced by photographer Jonathan Levin, are primarily people who work in the healthcare industry — “al...

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Distribution for Finitzo’s doc; to screen at Latino fest

By Ruth L Ratny Mar 9, 2016

NEW DISTRIBUTOR GRASSHOPPER FILM of LA has picked up VOD, digital and non-traditional rights to Maria Finitzo’s Kartemquin-produced feature doc, “In the Game.”It follows t...

BBDO’s Bud Light spot wins a “Best” of Mobius Awards

By Ruth L Ratny Mar 9, 2016

Energy BBDO’s 2016 Super Bowl spot, the 90-second “Bud Light Coin” for ABinBev that aired in the game’s fourth quarter, was one of the eight Best of Show winners in the ...

“Battle for Hope” bands gearing up for OTSC benefit

By Ruth L Ratny Mar 9, 2016

This year’s Chicago advertising agency band competition, “Battle for Hope,” is looking to raise $60,000 that will send 120 kids from Off the Street Club to summer camp and...