With the “Mad Men” series returning for its seventh and final season April 7, local adman Steve Platcow, CEO of RPM Advertising, is reviving that glamorous 1960s era&nb...
Filmmaker Spike Lee’s career will be celebrated during the 7th annual CIMMfest as “An Evening of Music, Film & Wine with Spike Lee,” spanning from his breakthrough 198...
By the time Sun-Times had headlined Gov. Bruce Rauner’s demand that Cinespace return a $10 million state grant, studio president Alex Pissios had already sent the uncashed ch...
FORMER CHICAGOANS Colin Costello and George Artope’s short thriller, “Immurement,” will be produced by Bill Artope’s Wild Eye Entertainment starting in ...
Even with “Empire’s” star Terrance Howard playing forward on Local 476’s team, the Studio Mechanics couldn’t muster the chops to beat the formidable Local 600 Inter...
The first-ever exhibition of Chicago-conceived advertising icons to be honored by the Museum of Broadcast Communications will remind the public that many of the great moments ...
Jerry Bryant's JBTV music television is turning to comedy with “Fourstar Stand Ups,” a concept that combines homegrown performers, BYOB crowds and one of the best live pro...
In a March Madness of their own, Local 600 and Local 476 members who work on "Empire," "Chicago PD" and "Chicago Fire" camera and grip crews at Cinespace, will put on their game...
In the course of making Good Things — a 60-second McDonald’s spot that celebrates African American culture and forms part of the restaurant’s social space 365Black.com —...
FOX TV IS SO PLEASED at the cooperation, professionalism and ease of working here on the smash hit “Empire,” that it sent production of two pilots here. They started...
Chicago based producer/writer Blake Anthony, of Blake Anthony, Inc., has joined Joyful Noise, LLC, producers of the music biopic about gospel great Mahalia Jackson, as executive...
After more than six years of Michigan film incentives that brought millions of dollars and thousands of jobs to the distressed state, a bill to end the incentives Oct. 1 narro...
NO SURPRISE THAT LEO BURNETT, which, with its several other agency divisions, dominated the CAF-sponsored nominations with five out of six nods for Agency of the Year, wo...
A bonanza of bands will play this Saturday, March 14 for nearly 13 non-stop hours at the Hideout’s Annual SXSW Send Off Party for 10 local bands heading to Austin.The mini mu...
"Chicago Made" music riches and tech innovations will be on display a second year before the thousands of international visitors at SXSW Music, Film, Interactive festivals&nbs...
For Kevin Pang and Mark Helenowski having their first documentary accepted for a world premiere at SXSW Film, Music and Digital Festival after more than three years in the work...
FILMWORKERS’ CREATIVE STAFF got a boost with the hire of colorist Jeff Altman, who returns to his home town after two years in New York as a colorist with Color Collective, w...
Producer/director Darryl Pitts’ indie biopic, "The Rhythm and the Blues," is based on true story of a family of Mississippi-born blues musicians who came North during the Gre...
The pilot for “Chiraq,” a dramatic TV series about gang rivalry set in Chicago’s troubled South Side neighborhoods, created and produced by William Pierce of Filmquest, ...
Towers Productions’ reality TV series "Strange Inheritance," the half-hour series Jonathan Towers created and produced for the Fox Business Network (FBN) is heading for a sec...