If James Bond were saving the world in this digital age, he would be the first in his line of work to embrace the newest technology by a company called
So how’s he doing? As Peter McGuinness rapidly approaches his first year anniversary on the job as CEO and president of DDB/Chicago, he at least has managed to now to
SAG-AFTRA and the advertising industry agreed to postpone their previously-scheduled early negotiations of the union’s commercials contract, the union board announced Saturday. The current three-year contract expiring March, 31, 2013
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We are currently working on the new documentary, Remembering Chicago: The 70s & 80s – the fifth installment of the wildly popular “Remembering Chicago”
High-end HD video production equipment of long-established Detroit Grace & Wild production/post and company-owned Postique Studios, will be sold via an online only auction by auctioneer <span style="text-decoration:
It’ll never happen. Whatever good Mayor Rahm Emanuel hoped might come from his hideously verbose Chicago Cultural Plan — a draft of which was released Monday — isn’t going
Two international posthouses have joined their established Chicago sister editorial company to form a powerhouse collective of talent and services, located in new 9,000-sq. ft. facilities in the Tribune Tower.
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Say this for Mario Van Peebles: Despite the dark themes of Startz “Boss,” the director presides over a festive set. Before filming ended on the second season July 10, Van
BEFORE SCIENTISTS at the CERN particle accelerator outside Geneva, Switzerland apparently discovered the long-sought Higgs Boson or “God Particle” earlier this month, 137 Films captured the ill-fated hunt by physicists
IT’S PROBABLY SAFE TO SAY that Mexican-born, Chicago-based playwright Tanya Saracho has emerged. She adds another impressive notch to her professional belt by being selected as a member of the
Writers who said what they wanted most to have from their Chicago Screenwriters Network membership was direct-Chicago-to-Hollywood access will get their wish Sunday, when the
What a laugh! Chicago may be the city that works (some of the time), but it has never really had much of a clue how to market itself to tourists
VITAMIN’S DANNY DELPURGATORIO, creative director/director of Filmworkers Club’s motion graphics division, directed a short with a Vitamin crew of 15 that showcases July 27 at the July 24-29 <span
When it comes to marketing liquor — especially those products aimed at a young adult demo — it of course helps immeasurably to be extraordinarily alert to current trends in
IF THERE’S ONE THING directors Andy and Lana Wachowski are expert at it’s keeping a tight lid on news about their projects, never publicly speaking about them and thus allowing
Commercial director and still photographer Laurie Rubin is on the assignment of a lifetime. She is the sole still photographer on the expedition that will search for wreckage of aviatrix
AFTER A TOO LENGTHY PERIOD of promotional inactivity, Chicago/Illinois’ film interests will finally make a formal appearance in Hollywood Aug. 1. Gov. Pat Quinn has been invited to speak and
Debby Kotzen’s Naked Voices – Chicago’s only exclusively voiceover agency – now has 200 exclusive talents on its roster with the addition of two talent agents,
The life of Emmett McBain, co-founder of Burrell McBain Advertising in 1971, and a renowned water color artist, will be celebrated at a very upbeat memorial party Saturday, June 30,
For 30 years, Lawrence (Larry) Bridges has been known for Red Car, his successful, four-city postproduction company. At the same time, he has developed a personal
