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...
Central Illinois will boast the largest and best-equipped production facility outside of Chicago when Heroic Age Studios opens in Mount Zion next year – one that will “att...
9-15 THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL the first festival programmed entirely by Chicago Film Critics Association members, presents 24 international festival favorites, includ...
The marriage of two agencies that analysts doubted would work was called off before the wedding. Publicis Groupe and Omnicom Group terminated their $35 billion proposed me...
The 6th annual CIMMFEST, a four-day celebration of culture and good times that raced up and down Milwaukee Avenue last weekend, lived up to its growing reputation as a must-a...
The sole pilot that shot in Chicago this year, happily has turned into a series. Fox TV announced yesterday that dramatic “Empire” was picked up as a series for a s...
Producer/director Carey Lundin attended some of CIMMCon’s panel discussions last Saturday and shares some of the information she gained there. “Logline, Demo and Pitch” ...
Perhaps one of the most important documentaries about the Holocaust, about an unknown Washington diplomat who fought to awaken America to Hitler’s plan to annihilate the Jews ...
EIGHTEEN OF THE LATEST and greatest product innovations will be Thursday, May 8 at Key Code Media's Post NAB Technology Expo, being held at the LA-based company's new Chicago of...
It's difficult to think of "Citizen Kane's" creator Orson Welles, a giant of 20th century culture, as being a Midwesterner, although the cinema genius was born in Kenosha and ed...
Two buddies were at the Green Eye Lounge on Milwaukee Avenue, kicking around ideas about film and music, when the conversation turned serious. Chicago offers hundreds of places...
As the country’s leading casino advertising agency, it was not all that unusual for RPM Advertising to have a slot machine in its office. The 20-year vintage “Groovy...
Ten of Hollywood’s best known, busiest and emerging screenwriters, whose credits appear shows like “Scandal,” “Parks and Recreation” and “The Pirates of the C...
Out of AICP’s annual 2014 AICP Show and AICP Next Awards Shortlist of 212 nominees for excellence and expertise in commercials, only five Chicago agencies in eight categorie...