My Sister Fred, the virtual agency led by a pair of former conventional agency creatives, went global in creating the opening video and all the elements for the London Business...
ACTOR JIM BELUSHI filed two lawsuits in relating to a failed deal with a local comedy owner. The first was a defamation suit seeking $50,000 in damages against Sahar Chavosh...
Some 2,000 members of the advertising and production industries attended last night’s AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the American Commercial, held at the Museum of Mode...
It’s not a “goodbye forever” on Sunday, June 14 for the twentieth Indie Incubator XX free film festival of locally-made short films held bi-monthly for the past decade at...
In the past few days since Gov. Bruce Rauner’s budget cuts included suspending film industry’s hard earned tax credit, confusion has been rampant and the effect negative, ...
THE AICP NEXT AWARDS held last night in New York as part of AICP Week, presented its 2015 Most Next honor to Leo Burnett’s Allstate’s “Social Savvy Burglar.” As ...
A suspension of the Illinois Filmmakers Tax Credit was one of many items contained in Gov. Bruce Rauner’s announced budget cuts, in an overt ploy to prod the Democrats to co...
Digital Kitchen has gone global with its acquisition by Kyu, the new strategic operating unit of Japanese Hakuhodo DY Holdings, the seventh largest advertising holding company...
How former gang leaders are helping to reverse the violence and keep the peace in South Central Los Angeles, known “as the gang capital of America,” is the timely subject ...
Chicago’s got talent! — and the third annual SCOUT Chicago Festival this weekend will spotlight a myriad of comedic actors ready and waiting to be discovered at showcases ...
While the number of women directors of major studio films has dropped to all-time low of 4.6% in 2014, it’s encouraging that various studies show that larger numbers of femal...
Oakbrook-based retailer Ace Hardware moved its advertising business closer to home by naming Chicago’s O’Keefe Reinhard & Paul its lead creative agency. For the past se...
An estimated 1,000 guests showed up at the Cubby Bear Thursday night to cheer the six "Battle of the Advertising Bands" that raised $50,000 (and still counting) to send kids fr...
THE LATEST STAR to join the cast of Spike Lee’s “Chiraq” is Jennifer Hudson, who appears along with fellow Chicago natives John Cusack, Common, and Jeremy Piven. Samuel L...
For the third consecutive year, The Hollywood Reporter’s ranked Lakeview-based DePaul theatre school number 18 out of the top 25 drama schools that are the best places to ear...
“It’s awesome
to use talents
outside of our agency
and help
an organization
like Off The Street Club.”
Nicole Stachura, AbelsonTaylor
The third annual Battle...
SCREENWRITER FREDERICK MENSCH’S “NIGHTINGALE,” based on a Palatine man’s horrific murder of his mother, will premiere on HBO Friday night at 8 p.m. The feature, starrin...
I make a lot of DIY micro features and I’m often asked the screenwriting secret to having produced seven feature films in the last seven years. Detailed here are my Top 10 T...
Cinespace continues to expand its stage capacity, with four new sound stages now under construction that boost the total number of stages to 21. “We took one big space that ...
One-stop, full-service agency, Idea Kitchen, has been launched to work exclusively with restaurants and food service companies. And with Chicago boasting 6,200 full-serv...
