Still pondering a Christmas gift that’s fun, different and, umm, not too pricey? On Wednesday, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., visit Daily Planet’s one day, pop-up shop at the ...
Award-winning director Ky Dickens has been filming a feature documentary about the need for paid family leave since her daughter, Harlow, was born in June, 2014, and she and her...
Here’s a good start to the New Year of media and entertainment in Chicago. Dick Wolf’s latest franchise, “Chicago Med,” will have an 18 episode first season, havin...
When AbelsonTaylor president Dale Taylor started treating his employees to casual in-house lunchtime gatherings on Friday afternoons 25 years ago, he did not realize that the tr...
With its new space in an historic Sears building in North Lawndale, Free Spirit Media now has five locations to help urban youth from under-resourced communities gain life,...
When most people think about holiday songs, the usual suspects come to mind — “White Christmas,” “Silver Bells” and “Let it Snow.” Grammy and Emmy-winning composer...
INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC’S LOSS is Rethink Studios’ gain. The CGI and motion graphic design studio hired Renita Taylor as producer when she recently moved to C...
Tom Fletcher, HD visionary and local film industry icon, has released the 2015 Fletcher Camera Comparison Chart, an annual reminder of the continuing evolution of the cameras an...
Post house Hootenanny, quite aware of the burgeoning Latino visual media market (Latinos are now 17% of the US population) is representing Buenos Aires-based editor, Roberto Bra...
Chicago earns its close-up at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, with premieres of the feature “Southside with You,” about Michelle and Barack Obama’s first date and Media P...
THE NORTH ALLIANCE, the first ever collective of Scandinavian creative agencies, has expanded into the U.S. market with the acquisition of the Chicago-based digital agency, Nans...
Commonground/MGS has ceased operating because of “circumstances beyond the agency’s control, namely the adversarial relationship between the holding company and its lender,...
Last Saturday, Gordon Quinn, co-founder and artistic director of Kartemquin Films, received a standing ovation from his peers when he accepted the Career Achievement Award from ...
A TRIO OF EXPERTS within Resolution Productions Group is holding demonstrations of a new time and money-saving approach to commercials by using LED backdrops on its main stage D...
As I wander aimlessly through the tech landscape, I realize that a lot of people, including myself, say they “hate” technology.I hate tech because of what it has done to us....
Last year, agency Shafer Condon Carter’s Big Wreath Food Project to feed the hungry through the Greater Chicago Food Depository resulted in 18,000 meals contributed by SCC’s...
The five screenplays and stage play winners selected by IFP Chicago and Chicago Screenwriters Network for the Screenwriters Workshop, Thursday, Dec. 1, will have their scripts r...
A live demonstration of the world’s first H.265 hardware mobile encoder "Smart-Telecaster," the Soliton ZAO encoder system — a live broadcasting link that delivers...
FOX'S EMPIRE STARS Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard will host Taraji and Terrence's White Hot Holidays — which the network is billing as a music and variety spec...
The advertising community’s involvement in Off the Street Club dates back to 1902 when Frank Thomas, president of FCB’s predecessor agency Lord & Thomas, made the first ...