Reel Chicago - Midwest film, production, TV, commercial, music, ad agency Reel Chicago News

Lewis Lazare

Larmon’s Cavalry delivers a creative punch for Coors

By Lewis Lazare Oct 23, 2012

Beer advertising needed a jolt. And Jim Larmon, the chief creative officer at Cavalry/Chicago, has delivered a big one. With the unveiling on Sunday of the new agency’s ...

Brody and Ryan’s locally shot comedy feature in post

By Mike Morgan Oct 22, 2012

The third feature-length project from Reid Brody and Bill Ryan’s 2DS Productions has wrapped two weeks of local filming and has begun postproduction at Filmworkers Club and it...

The Golf Channel airs mini- series golfers’ adventure

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 22, 2012

Filmmaker Martin Rodahl of 71 Degrees North aced a double eagle with his first long-form project: an original mini-series for The Golf Channel, about three friends who drive the...

V-Spann veterans channel has new office at Cinespace

By Mike Morgan Oct 19, 2012

The proposed V-SPANN cable channel has edged forward in its goal towards becoming the state’s first TV channel dedicated to the needs and stories of military veterans, by sett...

Lewis Lazare

Y&R taps Cimino to replace Winter as top creative

By Lewis Lazare Oct 18, 2012

People come. And people go. And at Young & Rubicam/Chicago, one chief creative officer came and another went in very short order this week. Very short orde...

TV spot contest awards at venue, streams live online

By Kerry Devine Oct 18, 2012

Entrepreneur Rich Seng of Wicker Park calls his 30 Seconds Over Chicago the “first ever” crowd-sourcing contest and possibly the first one for creating TV commer...

Staging pro John Kavanagh joins Lakeshore Audiovisual

Oct 18, 2012

THIRTY-YEAR STAGING VETERAN John Kavanagh has left the Show Department after 27 years to join national, full service production company, Lakeshore Audiovisual, Inc. (LSAV), as V...

Cataldo’s “Wednesday’s Child” wins Shortcuts contest

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 17, 2012

WINNER OF THE IFO’S 2012 Illinois Shortcuts competition is the dark comedy “Wednesday’s Child, from director Rocco Cataldo and cinematographer Mike Kwielford of Potenza Pr...

Ryan McGuire helms Cutters fourth branch in Tokyo

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 16, 2012

Cutters’ editor Ryan McGuire is a busy guy. Last Friday, he presided over the opening of Cutters new Tokyo office; on Monday he greeted his parents, Ellen and Tim McGuir...

Lewis Lazare

Can C/K, DDB’s foreign creative approach work?

By Lewis Lazare Oct 16, 2012

Does foreign really work in Chicago? That’s the burning question that is likely to be answered in the not too distant future as we watch how things fare for two high-pro...

Big Deahl signs Midwest sales rep Nathan Skillicorn

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 16, 2012

Master tabletop director/shooter David Deahl may travel the world on assignment, but when it comes to representation, “We wanted someone local,” says executive producer Rose...

Columbia Night and David Chase light up CIFF, Oct. 16

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 15, 2012

YOU NEVER KNOW who’s going to show up at the Chicago International Film Festival, which is part of the fun of attending. On Friday night, actor Vince Vaughn showed up to...

ComEd/Barbizon give cash rebates for LED lights

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 15, 2012

Commonwealth Edison’s best kept money-saving secret is hereby revealed: A film, broadcast or theatre company switching to LED and other types of energy efficient lights is ent...

Jumpmaster’s ‘Citizen Soldier’ PBS series bows Nov. 11

By Mike Morgan Oct 12, 2012

The first two episodes of “Citizen Soldier,” a 12-part original panel discussion series on military topics, coproduced by internationally famous Pritzker Military Library, a...

Lewis Lazare

NY’s One Club tests unConference concept here

By Lewis Lazare Oct 11, 2012

The One Club is coming to Chicago. Considered by many in the ad world, who consider such things to be one of the most prestigious organizations devoted to spotlighting creativit...

LiveLab, top YouTube producer, debuts Oct. 11

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 10, 2012

Barry Krause, indefatigable adman supreme for 30 years, and now head of Suite Partners, Inc., has transformed with the times into, believe it or not – the world’s larg...

Foundation’s new senior producer from New York

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 10, 2012

NEW TO FOUNDATION CONTENT is senior producer Tamara Bridges Rothschild who just joined Monday, Oct. 8 after a five year stint in New York as a freelance producer. Rothschi...

Lewis Lazare

Two by Four puts new energy into OTSC luncheon

By Lewis Lazare Oct 9, 2012

Let’s hear it for the little guys. If it wasn’t for the little guys — by that we mean the smaller shops that are part of the warp and woof of the local ad industry �...

Events

October sizzles with array of can’t miss activities

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 8, 2012

October traditionally is the most eventfully-active month of the year as our calendar proves. We will continue to add events as quickly as they announced so, as they say, ...

SPORTS

Big Ten Network ramps up production with new docs

By George Castle Oct 8, 2012

Two new weekly shows are establishing the five-year-old, Chicago-based Big Ten Network as a regular producer of sports documentaries. Operating out of offices in the old Montgo...

TOP STORIES

Local 476 dedicates Union Hall to longtime leader Mark A. Hogan

CAF to host Chicago premiere of ‘Happy Songs About Unhappy Things’

Field Notes to host Film Festival at Music Box Theatre