The big news that rocked Michigan Avenue Friday was also bad news for Chicago advertising. Cavalry, the three-year old agency dedicated solely to Coors advertising was routed...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEO BURNETT! When Leo Burnett opened his new advertising agency on August 5, 1935, during the Great Depression, he brightened the office with a bowl of re...
Block parties are always fun, but when the party brings together music, movies, food and drinks for a good cause, it’s bound to be a huge success. And that’s what t...
Optimus’ hiring of editor Caleb Hepler, who starts the latest chapter of his career on Monday, Aug. 10, brings the number of Optimus editors to 10. Hepler moves over fr...
THIS FRIDAY NIGHT late and very early Saturday morning, a crew will be shooting aerials and plate shots in Chicago for DC Comics’ sci-fi thriller “Suicide Squad.” Helico...
Sarah Hamilton’s pet beagle, Hotch, is about to get a roommate, a rescue dog from Alive Rescue, the seven-year old save haven animal shelter in Avondale. Alive Rescue w...
For the past several years, Chicago filmmakers puffed with pride as three of its area film schools were rated among the 25 best by The Hollywood Reporter. But its 2015 list, h...
ACTOR DAVID DASTMALCHIAN, an ensemble member of the Shattered Globe Company and Caffeine Theatre, is in Marvel Studio’s $132 million blockbuster “Ant-Man,” playing Kurt...
Leo Burnett brought back the notable creative team of Gordy Sang and Brian Siedband and named them SVP/CDs on the agency’s new McDonald’s North America account. They also ...
This Friday, Aug. 7 marks Optimus Block Party 20th annual Block Party and its (sob) last. The production/post company has sold building at 161 E. Grand and will move int...
Victoria and Christopher Kelley of Downstate Quincy take pride in the fact that they are a husband-and-wife team of filmmakers. Their company, Table Sixteen Productions, ...
CHICAGO’S COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION continues to hum along, either with a crush of work crammed into several weeks, or stretches of head-scratching as to where the business went...
Wednesday night, Carol Marin led a discussion on "Chicago Tonight" about the controversy over Spike Lee's use of "Chiraq" as a title for his anti-violence movie. The interview w...
Agency producer par excellence Lisa Burke, who’s spent her entire career producing commercials for many of the world’s biggest brands and best directors, has moved to the ...
When DePaul University husband-and-wife academics Matthew Irvine and Kristyn Benedyck agreed to join the University of Cincinnati, school president Dr. Santa J. Ono was so pl...
KRIS SWANBERG’S SUNDANCE HIT indie drama “Unexpected,” will start its limited theatrical release at the Music Box Theatre, July 24, following screenings at 13 US and int...
LA-based screenwriter/producer Jeff Schimmel brings his unique two-day "Maximum Screenwriting" seminar to Chicago for the first time this weekend, delving into “what the book...
ENERGY BBDO'S MARK TAYLOR'S abrupt departure as chief creative officer was announced by president/CEO Tonise Paul at an office meeting Friday, who cited his leaving for unexplai...
The first union contract between members of radio’s Chicago Public Media (CPM) and SAG-AFTRA was overwhelmingly ratified June 30, after nearly two years of negotiations t...
THREE NEW AT LEVITHAN are producer James Turek, who earlier had spent eight years in LA; software engineer David Braun, a recent Brown University grad with a BA in Mathematics...