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Comcast may produce Cubs games for WLS/7 this spring

By George Castle Jan 26, 2015

Talks are ongoing between Comcast SportsNet Chicago (CSN) and WLS/7 to have Comcast produce the 25 Chicago Cubs games that ABC O&O WLS/7 has contracted to telecast for eac...

Leffel’s new company takes off with a Delta video

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 26, 2015

Craig Leffel’s inaugural project for his new company took off in a big way — a Delta Airlines’ online spot that was directed by Sam Ciaramitaro, a multi Cannes Gold Lion...

EVP/GCD Banta heads Capital One creative team

By Dutch Schultz Jan 23, 2015

DDB Chicago’s new EVP/group creative director, David Banta, moves to the Windy City from Boston to head all creative work on the agency’s estimated $265 million Capital O...

DDB gets ‘actionable advice’ from brands expert/author

By Dan Patton Jan 23, 2015

Distinguished author Adam Morgan fittingly celebrated the release of his new book by leading a discussion at DDB Chicago, one of the shops where he had worked during his 17 yea...

Updated IFO Production Guide wants your new listing!

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 23, 2015

For the first time since the Illinois Film Office's Production Guide switched from print to a digital publication, sometime in the mid-‘90s (to the best of anyone’s re...

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Mockumentary based on local film ‘horror stories’

By Mike Morgan Jan 23, 2015

A mockumentary, "The Great Chicago Filmmaker," by filmmaker Michael Jolls, screening Jan. 26 at the Landmark Century Centre Cinema, aims the camera at burgeoning director...

SCC’s Selby receives Silver Medal Award Thursday

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 21, 2015

SCC president David Selby will be in good company when he receives the Chicago Advertising Federation’s Silver Medal award at a luncheon in his honor Thursday at the Montgom...

Towers’ new reality series airs Monday on Fox cable

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 21, 2015

“Strange Inheritance,” a new half-hour cable series from a redefined Towers Productions that was eight months in production, starts airing Monday, Jan. 26 on Fox Busin...

Vasilatos produces spots for Fioretti’s mayoral run

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 20, 2015

THE FIRST SPOT for Ald. Bob Fioretti’s (2nd) mayoral campaign — produced, shot and edited by the alderman’s video team leader, Jerry Vasilatos — has rolled out on...

Industry dismayed by Steinberg leaving IFO Friday

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 14, 2015

Politics being politics, Illinois Film Office director Betsy Steinberg's paycheck yesterday also contained a pink slip, telling her that Friday, Jan. 16 would be her final day ...

The Mill expanding into its own West Loop building

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 14, 2015

When The Mill makes its unprecedented move into its four-story, 22,000-sq. ft. building sometime in late summer, it will be the largest visual media company located in the bu...

Ch. 11 airs first locally-produced kids shows in ages

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 13, 2015

Kelli and Estlin Feigley Dreaming Tree Films’ upcoming show has the distinction of being WTTW/11’s only locally-produced children’s series to air among its 12 hours of ...

It’s been 100 years since Chaplin filmed at Essanay

By Gary Keller, Janelle Vreeland and Dan Kamin Jan 13, 2015

This January marks the 100th anniversary of Charlie Chaplin's historic month in Chicago, where he shot his first one reel comedy at George K. Spoor and "Bronco Billy" Ande...

Producer Richardson joins Cutters from New York shop

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 13, 2015

After a 15 year absence including 11 years working for a bicoastal editorial company, producer Heather Richardson decided it was time to come home. On Jan. 5 she joined...

Hyundai car shoot for Korea lights up LaSalle St.

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 9, 2015

A rugged Chicago and Korean production crew braved the freezing cold last Monday and Tuesday nights to work on a massive commercial shoot in the heart of the Loop for a 2015 H...

Davidov edits health care ‘shell game’ doc in NOLA

By Dan Patton Jan 9, 2015

Chicago filmmaker Ilko Davidov is storming into 2015 like a polar vortex. Besides signing a distribution deal for the 2015 Nelson Algren doc that he co-roduced and co-direct...

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