FCB CHICAGO’S NEW EVP/ECD is Susan Treacy, with more than 20 years of agency creative experience, who moved over from six years as Leo Burnett’s EVP/CD, where she oversaw a ...
Beast editor Dean Gonzalez, who in 2004 in Los Angeles spent a year shaping endless hours of footage about a famous band into a feature documentary that the band and director wa...
At its meeting Monday night, members of Local 476 Studio Mechanics nominated, without opposition, business manager Mark Hogan, to his fourth consecutive three-year term in the o...
Quriosity Productions is one of ten Chicago filmmakers whose 60-second films will lend reel local flavor to the 51st Chicago International Film Festival in introducing CIFF...
On days when NBC’s hit show Chicago Fire is scheduled to shoot at Cinespace Studios, chef Mario Aguirre and his assistants from Mario's Catering arrive at 2:30 in the mor...
New to Stage 18 space, Angie Gaffney’s Media and Entertainment incubator located at Cinespace, is Justin Jackola’s JJack Productions and it’s knee deep in production ...
THE CHICAGO SCREENWRITERS NETWORK is taking comedy seriously by offering its first comedy writing seminar with Gabe Abelson, who’s helped get laughs for such headliners a...
After frightening you regarding 4K in your post and production future, I left off last time with this prophetic statement. The computer you edit your project on should never be ...
The first of Ari Golan’s legendary Halloween parties, in 1986, was actually a one-year anniversary party for his Golan Productions Inc. that he had started Nov. 19, 1985, in t...
Connor Olen, whose ambition is to become an actor, was dejected while driving home after high school with his mother. He was very disappointed he did not win a role in the schoo...
Eight legendary “garage bands” that came out of Chicago in the ‘60s and ‘70s will reunite at WTTW for a once-in-a-lifetime public television special, “Cornerstones of ...
Mixer/sound designers Corey Coken and Jamie Vanadia’s NoiseFloor audio post company is celebrating its 10th anniversary with the addition of its first outside rep stretching o...
Fortunately, Cinespace is a monster-sized film studio so it can easily accommodate the hundreds of guests expected to attend GalaWeen, a bewitching costume party Halloween night...
If you have “slightly worn women’s clothes” hiding in the back of your closet, now is the time to swoop them up and donate them to the 5th annual Pink October Breast Cance...
I am going to be honest. The future in 4K is pretty bleak for everyone who chooses to cling onto their existing workflows and hardware. Be forewarned, those productions scr...
IN TUESDAY’S COLUMN I cheerfully wrote that it was good news for local production companies that Kraft Heinz’ forthcoming new agency would not be handling production, which ...
Breast cancer is the second most common kind of cancer in women. About one in eight women born today in the US will get breast cancer at some point. The good news is...
Actors, writing partners and friends Bobby Richards and Avery Lee are finally calming down over the deliriously joyful shock of having won the NBC Playground’s digital comedy ...
GREENHOUSE, Leo Burnett’s nimble, in-house digital studio is now an official agency offering, having been formed earlier “to meet the demand of content production across a b...
October is National Archives Month and if that doesn’t sound as exciting, say, as celebrating October’s National Popcorn Poppin’ Month, National Kick Butt Day or Nati...