MUMBLECORE PRACTITIONER Frank V. Ross’ romantic drama Tiger Tale in Blue is one of five nominees for the Nov. 26 Gotham Independent Film Awards’ Best Film Not Playing at a T...
It was a long night at the Midwest Emmy Awards ceremonies Sunday, Nov. 18 at the Alhambra Palace as the gold statuettes were presented to winners in a whopping 71 categories (ac...
Another Chicago mayor is out of a job. Starz television network has canceled political drama “Boss” after two seasons, due to underwhelming ratings the second season, ...
DESIGN STUDIO LEVIATHAN and composer/sound designer Joel Corelitz’ Waveplant, have formed “a creative alliance” that sounds like a first. With Corelitz now sharing space i...
Chicago’s colorful and violent gangster past, laden with fascinating sociopathic players (e.g. HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire) is given an important up close and personal look by...
It was, for those who take a broader view of things, a bittersweet moment in Chicago advertising annals. Yes, we’re talking about the debut this week of BMO Harris...
After months of rumors about London-headquartered effects and design studio The Mill opening a branch here – it’s official. The company announced today it will share s...
DOCUMENTARIAN BILL SIEGEL producer director of the Oscar nominated The Weather Underground is directing the ITVS-backed, Kartemquin-produced documentary The Trials of Muhammad A...
MARKETING AGENCY UPSHOT, INC was ranked as No. 10 in the Chicago Tribune’s annual Top Places to Work compilation, as much for its traditional benefits and congenial working en...
If only it were so easy. For four years — four long years — Jeff Kiernan has been trying to do the seemingly impossible. Some might compare it to the ungodly tas...
Mimi Productions turned out a whopping total of 66 videos promoting six brands of Nestle Regional Spring Waters – the world’s leading mineral water company -- shot during th...
It’s considered SOP for a client to pull its business from an agency and subsequently set up shop with people who previously worked on that account. But when employees p...
AGENCY/PRODUCTION VETERAN JOHN NOBLE will be doing some serious traveling on behalf of L.A.-based The Traveling Picture Show Company (TPSC), which he joined last month as a part...
It’s the forgotten advertising form. It gets no respect. It’s probably going to go the way of the dinosaur before much more time has elapsed. We just have ...
With the hiring of veteran agency executive producer Tom Cronin as SVP/EP in charge of Foundation Content’s Chicago office, the versatile production company may be changing di...
Mark Hulsey knows his production crew is fortunate in televising the Big Ten’s men’s soccer tournament championship game being played Sunday on Northwestern’s lakefront fi...
Life goes on. Even at DraftFCB/Chicago. No one needs to be told that the ad shop — which not that long ago could lay claim to being the city’s largest — has be...
In a TV commercial, demonstrating brake rotors – aka brake discs, as important to stopping a vehicle as brake pads -- can be a snore or as exciting as the one multi-platform a...
Producer and distribution expert and former Chicagoan Jerome Courshon tackled the distribution maze when he made his award-winning, 1998 indie God, Sex & Apple Pie, wh...
Filmmakers Lana and Andy Wachowski have been on a media blitz lately, popping up in national magazines, local newspapers and radio. What makes this is a huge story in itse...