We’ve said it many times before. And no matter how often we say it, the truth doesn’t change. The past decade has not been kind to the Chicago advertising commun...
At their two year anniversary mark, fast-growing design-driven/ 3D re:think studios hired its ninth staff member. Adina Kwasigroch joined Monday as visual effects producer...
Actor Elijah Wood was in town Sunday and Monday shooting an exterior scene for the Spanish production of “Grand Piano,” a thriller set mainly in a 3,000 seat theatre in Chic...
Let us, for a moment, turn our attention to Charles Barkley. We all know who he is. He’s a former pro basketball player who found a life after life on the court as a TV ...
Although ARU Chicago has amassed a 100,000-theme library – one of the biggest in the business -- the recording company has been seeing a growing demand for a better overall pr...
COMING AND GOING. Visual effects specialist Sam Gierasimczuk felt right at home when he returned to the Filmworkers building to join Vitamin as associate creative director...
What’s next? A couture line of advertising-inspired fashion? That’s the sort of question one finds oneself asking in the wake of the news this week that Leo Bur...
Not as many non-broadcaster-produced shows received 2012 Midwest Chapter Emmy nominations this season as they had in past years. Still, approximately 14 companies, especia...
In a recent election the Illinois Production Alliance board of directors was reelected, with the exception of one member stepping down after serving on the board since the IPA...
The seven-year old Springfield-based Central Illinois Film Commission (CIFC) decided that the time has come to let people know that the area -- “everything below I-80 to the K...
CUTTERS HALLOWEEN PARTY Thursday night, one of the two biggest, must-attend parties of the year (along with AICP’s big night Nov. 15) expects a record-breaking 800 guests – ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...