In March, The Mill effects and animation studio will celebrate its third anniversary in Chicago by moving to its magnificent new studio space in the landmark building at 1K...
Amazon Studios will be in filming in Chicago this year in a big way, starting with an indie feature starring Charlise Theron filming in part at Chicago Studio City, followed by ...
AN INFORMATIVE MEETING about the Illinois Filmmakers 30% Tax Credit will take place Wednesday, Jan. 27 to explain how to wend your way through the qualifications to obtain the c...
Fast-growing digital marketing agency Frequency 540 (FQ540) has brought aboard award-winning Larry Byrne as executive director/production, who’d been with Ogilvy for 14 y...
Gail Gilbert’s Cerise Films recently produced a 30-second in-cinema spot that featured a cast of one, plus a voiceover narrator. The star was Emmi, a 13-month baby girl w...
The currently playing Chicago Bulls’ video, “Rookie Days,” seen all over the internet, telling what it was like to be a rookie player in the player’s own words, is ...
The wide experience general manager Manuela Hung has garnered throughout her 23 years at Filmworkers Club will serve her well as she steps up to the leadership of one of Chicago...
Reid Brody of Filmworkers Club is packing boxes of personal goods, such as his vintage guitar collection, as he prepares to leave the company he founded in 1991 as the city...
“Transformers” director Michael Bay will return to Chicago later this year to produce the fifth installment of his franchise, he told WGN’s Dean Richards. But t...
It makes perfect sense on many levels why Spanish-language Univision Communications would buy a 40% stake in Chicago-based The Onion, with its cluster of online comedy shows.&nb...
HAVAS STARTS THE NEW YEAR with a new integrated account: Ohio-based Moen, a popular line of kitchen, bathroom and bar faucets, for creative, media, digital and content. Th...
As we close out the first month of 2016, I am reminding you technophobes to take a day and back everything up, since this when we start that tedious but necessary work on taxes,...
A project that Craig Leffel’s Big Spoon Industries started in late September for Wunderman, the Chicago agency for the Outback Steakhouse of Tampa, Fla. culminated Jan. 2...
Comcast SportsNet Chicago (CSN/C) received Major League Baseball’s last minute invitation Thursday, Dec. 10 to join its historic Cuban good will tour that was leaving the...
Burrell Communications’ put the introduction of client Toyota’s 2016 RAV4 Hybrid car on a comedy track with a now airing 10-spot campaign starring actor/comedian Keega...
The hits just keep coming. Fox announced it has renewed “Empire,” filming here at Cinespace Studios, for a third season at the Television Critics Association winter pr...
Sound engineer/sound designer Michael Mason of STIR Audio Post delivered high-octane sound design and effects to Milwaukee-based Jacobson Rost’s new Optima vehicle batter...
DDB Chicago’s Diane Jackson’s new title of Chief Production Officer is confirmation of management’s high regard for her being “formative in strategizing for the entire n...
DDB Chicago’s award-winning Diane Jackson was elevated to the newly-created and wider-ranging position of Chief Production Officer, from EVP/Director of Integrated Production....
WTTW/11 “CHICAGO TONIGHT” PRODUCERS overwhelmingly voted to become SAG-AFTRA members at a National Labor Relations Board election Dec. 18. They join 160,000 professionals in...