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...
Brett Dalton (“Agents of SHIELD”) has the title role in “The Resurrection of Gavin Stone,” director Dallas Jenkins's first feature for Harvest Bible Chapel’s Vert...
In the relatively short three years since The Onion uprooted its New York offices and moved to Chicago, the media company started two new networks and Onion Productions to ...
The London-based 2015 Documentary Summit returns to Chicago for the first time since 2013 this weekend, Oct. 3-4, at Chicago Filmmakers, presenting some of Chicago’s most...
Elise and Gregg Jaffe are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their Big Teeth Productions with a party next week for 200 invited guests at their Ravenswood office.&nbs...
“Grace and Fortune,” a comedy short written by Lapiz SVP/ECD Fabio Seidl, is one of a dozen short films by some 30 filmmakers to screen at the Midwest Independent Film Festi...
TYLER JAY’S TANDEM, INC. conceptualized and produced another in the series of Grub Hub spots, the latest a video called “Winner Picks Lunch,” now airing national...
Starting today, Gary Adcock of Studio 37, one of the world’s best technology authorities on the ever-evolving relationship between acquisition, editing and delivery, will shar...
It was a very long day for two Chicago Recording Company engineers on a recent Friday when they recorded ADR for Spike Lee’s “Chiraq” feature, based on an ancient Greek an...
It looks like Chicago/Illinois’ spot production market is vastly bigger than has been officially reported in the past, according to AICP’s just-released 13th annual Survey o...
OGILVY IS THE NEW AGENCY for Chicago-headquartered Morton Salt, whose iconic logo and “Umbrella girl” mascot is in the process of being reintroduced to the world following a...
Champaign-Urbana filmmakers command the screen Sunday, Oct. 4 when the 6th Annual New Art Film Festival presents some 40 short films at the Art Theatre Co-op in Champa...
A documentary about the impossible journey taken by a Swiss endurance athlete running around the world over five years will debut on WTTW/11 Thursday, Sept. 24 before airing on ...
Jack Marchetti, Energy BBDO’s tech lead and software programmer by day and screenwriter by night, is back on Kickstarter to raise development money for his second film, a feat...
CIFF’S INDUSTRY DAYS kick off Oct. 24 with a special Industry Tribute to Gigi Pritzker, CEO of production and financing company Odd Lot Entertainment (OLE), and producer of mo...