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Reports show 2015 a big year for state film industry

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 3, 2016

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...

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Stepping into the 360 ‘Virtual Reality’ experience

By Gary Adcock Feb 3, 2016

There is nothing virtual about the 360 degree experience that was in explosive abundance at CES 2016. In my opinion, this is less about a "Virtual Reality" and more about what I...

Siskel to use $194K grant to engage Latinos in film

By Blair Holmes Feb 3, 2016

The Oscar-nominated Brazilian animated feature, "Boy in the World," kicks off the Gene Siskel Film Center’s new initiative: To engage Chicago’s large Latino commun...

NBC renews “Chicago Med” for its second season here

By Mike Morgan Feb 2, 2016

NBC Universal has renewed Dick Wolf’s currently longest-running series and its most recent entrée. Order: SVU,” filmed in New York, and “Chicago Med,” filmed here...

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I-Cubed and Punkvision share new space and ideas

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 1, 2016

A NEW COLLABORATION has been formed between veteran spot editors and good friends Arturo Cubacub’s I-Cubed and Joe Langenfeld’s Punkvision, when Arturo recently mo...

South Bend shop hires Chicagoan for new business

By Mike Morgan Feb 1, 2016

Explore Media, a full-service, multi-award winning South Bend-based production company, has hired Chicagoan Sarah Gitersonke as business development director. She is respon...

Rich Stoddart named CEO of Leo Burnett Worldwide

By Mike Morgan Jan 28, 2016

As of Feb. 1, Rich Stoddart will become new Chief Executive Officer of Publicis Groupe’s Leo Burnett Worldwide, a one billion euro company.Stoddart, 52, CEO / Leo Burnett Nort...

The Mill’s big new studio officially opens April 1

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 28, 2016

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...

Charlize Theron stars in Amazon indie to film at CSC

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 27, 2016

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 ...

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CPA tells how to navigate the Illinois Tax Credit

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 25, 2016

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...

Ogilvy’s EP Byrne now heads Frequency 540 production

By Mike Morgan Jan 25, 2016

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...

Baby stars in Cerise Films’ big screen hospital spot

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 25, 2016

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...

Bulls videos entertain with insider’s view of players

By George Castle Jan 25, 2016

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 ...

Hung named to Filmmakers top leadership position

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 22, 2016

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...

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Reid Brody bids goodbye to Filmworkers after 25 years

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 21, 2016

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...

Three new shows set up at Cinespace ready to roll

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 21, 2016

“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...

Univision buys into The Onion to reach Millennials

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 20, 2016

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...

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