Paragon Studios, Chicago’s oldest, continuously-operating sound studio, has closed after 46 years – not for lack of business but because its West Loop building had been sold...
Towers Productions’ hit primetime reality series, “Strange Inheritance,” returns for its second season on Fox Business Network (FBN) Wednesday Nov. 11 with a four-epi...
AICP’s Next Awards come to Chicago, Thursday, Nov. 5, with the screening of the winners’ reel of advertising’s finest integrated-media work, and a highly distinguished pan...
A web series that former Chicago ad agency CD/screenwriter Colin Costello, now living in LA, helped develop and write has started principal photography and will debut onlin...
Cutters Studios’ up-and-coming assistants were the big winners in AICE Chicago’s 14th annual 2015 Camp Kuleshov Chicago trailer editing contest, going home with a...
There were two significant hires this week for recently-opened post and production studio Conspiracy. LA-based editor Cory Livingston, a nationally-known comedy/dialog...
HAVAS CHICAGO’S OFFICE at busy Grand and Wabash is stopping traffic (in a good way) with its street level, experiential window display of flashing pink and purple neon lights ...
Three Chicago-made features – a narrative and two documentaries - won top prizes in the 51st Chicago International Film Festival and two of the winners will screen among ...
Legendary blockbuster film writer/director Lana Wachowski, who rarely if ever makes a public appearance in Chicago, will actually be front and center on the stage of what is exp...
Writer/director Lucia Mauro’s second film and first feature “One Year Later,” currently in post, centers on Liz, a dedicated teacher of comparative literature, who struggl...
McGarryBowen Chicago is back in the restaurant business, having lost Pizza Hut to Deutsch, New York, by becoming the Olive Garden’s new creative agency of record, after a...
When the Chicago Bulls players jog into the court at the United Center to the roar of the crowd tonight, Oct. 27, they will be starting their 50th season of NBA basketball....
“ANYTHING’S POSSIBLE” is the Illinois Lottery slogan, except perhaps for the actual possibility of Northstar, hiring an Illinois production company for its Illinois Lotter...
Detroit’s Picnic New Media — aptly positioning itself as a go-to HTML5 production house — created a rich media project for Ford’s agency Team Detroit and the Ford F...
Chicago Deputy Mayor Steve Koch was among the speakers Thursday at a street-naming ceremony that honored the late Nikolaos “Nick” Mirkopoulos, the visionary owner of Cinespa...
As of today, Cutters’ Another Country has opened its fifth room, Sound 5, to accommodate the expertise of post audio veteran Peter Erazmus, who joined the audio comp...
Bitter Jester's doc
brings distinguished actor
Dennis Haysbert
his first-ever
Emmy Nomination
Dennis Haysbert, a distinguished actor for 37 years, received his first-ever...
It’s not “my problem” has been a common refrain from producers when the discussion of 4K comes around, that is until they see actually see the bill. Yes, advancing te...
A series of documentaries by women directors is Chicago Filmmakers’ first event to help benefit the renovation of the historical landmark fire house it purchased to ...
Six indie filmmaking teams will make “The Pitch” Sunday, Oct. 25 in front of a live audience, as to why their project deserves the prize of more than $20,000 of in-kind serv...