Enterpreneur/filmmaker Charlie Stone and partners Brian Rolling and Kate Weidner have formed “an agency without walls” that they named, simply, SRW, in an office in Ful...
The filming location for Comedy Central’s “The Detroiters” 10 episodes actually will be the Motor City, instead of New York which had been seriously discussed since its ex...
Even when LimeGreen Moroch CEO, Michon Ellis, was working for six figures in McDonald’s PR department back in 2003, his dream was to open his own agency.It was an ongoing...
CONSPIRACY ADDS TWO: Kyle Howard, a former New York editor, specializing in fashion and beauty commercials, to its West Loop-based staff, and New York-based Namakula to for Midw...
“THE HOTTEST OSCAR PARTY of the season” is how Stage 18 and Creative Cypher are hyping their total blow-out of an event, Chicago’s Oscar Party, Sunday, Feb. 28 ...
Screenwriter Frederick Mensch, celebrating his 20th anniversary as the owner of MovieBytes, a top screenplay contest resource, will be the featured speaker at the Chicago S...
Second City’s Harold Ramis Film School is slated to accept its first class of students in September. “The world’s first film school dedicated to comedy” was named ...
BAM STUDIOS’ engineering team provided sound design and audio mix for Media Process Group’s nearly two hour feature doc, “Maya Angelou: Still I Rise,” which evoked...
Amid the Super 50 hoopla and celebrations for Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos for their win, we all missed something so small that its’ changing the face of sports in a ...
The Team Companies’ Chicago staff of four will set up its new Chicago offices the first week of March in 2,600-sq. ft. space at 230 W. Superior, “where we’ll grow the staf...
Hear this! Audio Recording Unlimited’s (ARU) engineering staff was nominated for a 2016 Motion Picture Sound Engineers’ (MPSE) Golden Reel award for their sound work on...
The size of third-generation, family-owned Shaker Recruitment Advertising & Communications of Oak Park has more than doubled through the recent merger with Chicago...
ArcLight Cinemas, the LA-based luxury movie theatre chain that opened its first location outside of LA here, in Lincoln Park last October, will give “going out for dinner and ...
TWO CHICAGO AGENCIES, Energy BBDO and Havas Worldwide, are Best of Show nominees in the 2015 International Mobius Awards, to be announced at the awards celebration March 5 in Ho...
R/GA CHICAGO hired Charles Chung as executive production director to oversee the agency’s production, from DigitasLBi, where he was VP/group director of integrated produc...
HUNDREDS OF 16 MM FILMS are being sold this weekend, Feb. 5-6, by Chicago Film Archives, to make room for new collections. More than 650 16mm films, in black & white an...
Negotiations between the AICP/Midwest and IATSE Local 476 went smoothly and quickly, to deliver a new four-year contract that continues to demonstrate their mutual goal of ...
Fox TV is back in Chicago for another pilot season. The network has ordered three exciting one-hour pilots to be produced here from March through April – one more t...
As a filmmaker, Jack C. Newell is attuned to lighting, so it wasn’t a stretch when he and his partner, design strategist Seth Unger, set out to shed some light in the heart of...
The past four years of city and state media and entertainment production has been the most profitable and exciting in the history of the film offices. And 2015’s production st...
