AWARD-WINNING WRITER/DIRECTOR STEPHEN CONE (The Wise Kids) returns to his coming-of-age territory with his latest feature Black Box, which starts its theatrical run May 3...
Services will be held Saturday for Matthew J Brennock, managing partner/executive creative director at Momentum Worldwide and widely acknowledged as a great creative mind, who ...
SCREENWRITER/ADMAN COLIN COSTELLO, who’s been living in LA working in advertising and writing screenplays for the past 18 months, is back home for a visit and will be a speci...
Picture Show Films, Jamie Fleischel and Matt Leonard’s 13-year old family-owned company whose diverse productions span The Onion A.V. Club, Mercedes Benz, Allstate and a Cat...
If this year was feeling more optimistic for the advertising business, it’s because 2014 is shaping up to be one of the best years since 2005, with increased business this q...
The Chicago Portfolio School and Razorfish joined forces last week to establish the Windy City as one of 24 locales around the world to host the 12th annual Portfolio Night,&nbs...
The Second City is partnering with Beverly Hills-based management and production company Thruline Entertainment/Tagline Pictures to create new TV shows and movies centered on ...
Since homeless people often gather and seek sanctuary in parks, it is fitting that @home, a feature-length doc about the homeless, directed by Susanne Suffredin for The Kindli...
In this age of electronic music and music licensing, Greg Allan’s Sonixphere went retro for its long-time client, The Richards Group of Dallas. Not only was Sonixphere...
LOVE IS A VERB, Terry Spencer Hesser’s documentary about the controversial Turkish Muslim leader and activist Fethullah Gulen, won the Best Documentary award at the rece...
SMASHING PUMPKINS’FRONTMAN Billy Corgan will become the star of a reality TV series – not about music as one would expect, but wrestling. Corgan is the creative direc...
Cutters Studios and its design division Flavor were among four post houses that came away with top awards from the AICE Awards gala presentation in New York last Friday – on...
It’s official. Cineverse is the bright new name of what had been VER Digital since its purchase of 28 year old Fletcher Cameras last January. The new name is the brain...
After 17 years at Filmworkers, Rob Churchill is now officially a brand. When he suggested to Filmworkers' president Reid Brody that he needed people so they could handle sever...
Four Chicago filmmakers will have visible places at the Cannes Film Festival, May 14-25 as speakers and to premiere their films in front of an international audience gathering...
Ace editor Dean Gonzales, who honed his craft in LA for 15 years, joined Beast Editorial, saying Beast “seemed like a perfect fit,” with its national network, support sta...
VER Digital Cinema’s first event since purchasing Fletcher Cameras is a May 19 meeting of the Digital Cinema Society Chicago about fast moving 4K technology at Fletcher ...
NOTHING HAD BEEN HEARD from executive producer Michael Antonnuci since December, 2012, when he departed from Utopic, the production/post company he had co-founded three years ...
Leo Burnett senior copywriter Paul Swiatek and his brother, Mike, an LA director, working collaboratively cross-country, won the “Am I Awake” online music video contest, b...
George Kohut, considered one of the best camera operators in the country, a favorite of feature directors John Hughes and Andrew Davis, and a tireless advocate for workers’ ri...