Saturday’s sold out 56th annual Chicago/Midwest Emmy celebration at the Radisson Blu Aqua will be the biggest and best awards ceremony yet. A record 700 guests will at...
Three new spots that herald the opening of the Chicago Bulls 2014-2015 season are part of the team’s “Chicago Basketball is Home” campaign, now in its third successful ...
BUSY WEEKEND, BUSY WEEK of events starts Thursday fright night as 2,500 guests (and counting) in costume congregate at the Bottom Lounge to attend Cutters’ “Bloodbath in W...
Barkers bark and pitch men pitch, but sometimes it’s the monster who sells. For more than a century, ghosts, giants and beasts representing brands have met or exceeded thei...
Two of the four coveted Audience Choice Awards of the 50th Chicago Film Festival went to Chicago filmmakers now living on the West Coast. Kartemquin director Joanna Rudnick’...
“CHICAGO’S COOLEST OFFICES” is Crain’s Chicago Business’ annual effort to bring forth the best places to work, among the workplaces nominated by hundreds of enthusi...
In a 32-4 vote, Michigan’s Senate last week approved a bill to extend and improve the state’s film tax credit program, which was limited and reduced in 2011 and set to exp...
Emmy nominated writer/producer Melissa Berg brings a wealth of network television experience to her new producer’s role at Plum Productions. She replaces Kellye Blosser, who...
In a well couched but nonetheless blistering policy statement, the AICE claims that agencies steering post work to their own in-house facilities and other subterfuge is an ...
For the first time, STORY production/post will have an in-house sales director, working in its new offices when commercial pro, Melissa Thornley, starts Nov. 1 as Midwest head...
Filmmaker Tim Ferrin learned about children’s folk singer Ella Jenkins when he was a kid in music class listening to songs like “Did You Feed My Cow?” He remembers that hi...
MICHAEL MOORE AND MICHAEL SHANNON light up our celeb scene over the next few weeks while they’re in Chicago. Tonight, Moore will present the 25th anniversary screening...
There’s a theatrical flair to Leo Burnett’s current YouTube and Vimeo campaign for client ComEd. Three videos were filmed on a theatre stage and the cast of 16 principals in...
After nearly 30 years of operation, the Chicago DGA office will close and adopt what the DGA National Board calls “a new and improved representation model” for Midwest-based...
AMONG THE 30 TOP AWARDS that were presented Friday night at the conclusion of the 50th Chicago International Film Festival, was the coveted Chicago Award won by director Marie ...
When Toronto-headquartered digital marketing platform agency DAC Group opened an office here last month, it was the second Canadian agency this year to set up a branch oper...
The dramatic feature “Englewood: The Growing Pains in Chicago,” the powerful directorial debut of William L. Cochran, fittingly opens the 4th annual Englewood International...
BUSY PRODUCTION IN WEEKS AHEAD on the streets of Chicago. On the feature side: “Batman vs. Superman” moves after months in the Motor City to the Windy City and opens...
Producer Mo Wagdy is ready to rev his party bus to take a fearless group of production people and their families to fright-packed haunted house “Fear City,” on Friday, Oc...
After almost a year in the works, Chicago’s Commonground has merged with three existing ad agencies, three subsidiary production companies and two PR firms to form Commongr...