If Chicago’s visual media industry is ending 2014 with a big smile of satisfaction from a profitable outpouring of work, then 2015 will have everyone positively beaming like...
A NEW STAFFER for Utopic Editorial & Finishing, celebrating its fifth anniversary this month, is post producer Lauren Gray. The new position was created when executive prod...
With 2014 having been an overall very good business year for the visual media indusry, what’s the forecast for the New Year? Overall, the seven suppliers the Reel int...
This afternoon, the 2,000 clients on Odd Machine’s Email list will receive a holiday greeting that is probably the most unique message to come out of the industry on this, o...
For the past three years, Cinespace Studios has hosted a Holiday Party, with Santa Claus in attendance, games, gifts and good things to eat, for the children in the Lawndale ne...
The advertising community gave generously to the Off the Street Club Holiday Luncheon, as demonstrated by their record-breaking contributions of over $570,000 raised exclusively...
Michigan's amended tax incentive bill, calling for an extension of the $50 million-a-year rebate program to 2021, among other changes, won a Senate 33-4 vote and is now h...
When she held the office of State Treasurer, Judy Baar Topinka, who died Tuesday of a stroke, was the Illinois film industry’s great financial friend. In looking for ...
Chicago Recording Company, together with Filmworkers, Vitamin and Giannini Creative, expect their 2014 Holiday Party Thursday night to be the biggest ever, with 1,200 to 1,500 ...
DICTIONARY FILMS’DIRECTORS’ ROSTER expanded with duo Eric McCoy and Justus Meyer, aka McCoy|Meyer, raising the number of directors to eight. The Columbia College gra...
It’s too soon to announce new movie and TV projects for 2015, although one feature that’s supposed to shoot here has popped up, which tourism agency Choose Chicago can be...
This week, Bob Farnsworth, founder and CEO of Nashville's Hummingbird Productions, will visit five Chicago agencies to demonstrate how they can use “Fusic,” a collaborative ...
INDIE FEATURE “ANIMALS” was the big Best of the Midwest Awards Tuesday night, hosted by Midwest International Film Festival, winning for Best Feature, Best Director, Colli...
Picture Show Films’ “Real Guys, Real Grooming” campaign for Wahl internationally-sold line of men’s facial trimmers and clippers rolls into its second month of airing ...
“Motherlodes of
hifalutin data”
help creators
become
“three times
smarter than
we were before”
Chicago conceptual design firm Leviathan recently unveiled ne...
Following on the wheels of the Cadillac commercial that filmed here for the Chinese market a few weeks ago, was a Chinese crew over the Thanksgiving weekend that shot opening...
Media goddess Laurie Scheer is back in Chicago to share her successful approach of improving storytelling, skills for selling a screenplay and developing content in today...
“The Ladies Almanack,” a feature length experimental narrative film by local filmmaker Daviel Shy, will inaugurate Nightingale Cinema’s unique Follow Focus screening seri...
THE PERFECT MATCH: Chicago Recording Company and sales rep Dave Dakich have teamed up to make beautiful music together, figuratively speaking. Dakich is CRC’s newly h...
The lawsuit filed on behalf of Teamster 727 member Anne Stuart, a commercial driver, charging the union with sex discrimination, is back in the game after a judge tossed ...