Shafer Carter Condon’s CEO Tim Condon and managing partner/president David Selby are the agency’s successful, talented leaders, but who knew they could also sing? The ...
On the eve of integrated hybrid Utopic’s third anniversary, its spot production division has been "restructured," said Utopic digital partner Shannon Kemp, and founding ...
No rhyme. No reason. Ridiculous. Disgusting. Welcome to the often impossible-to-fathom world of advertising. Especially the world of advertising as it seems to play ...
Today could be the lucky day for two agency guys, Tri3sec’s junior producer Mike Matthews and copywriter Brian Gregoire, who entered Doritos’ annual Crash the Superbowl Cont...
Ironically, Steven Spielberg’s multi award-nominated Lincoln was shot in Petersburg, Va., and not in Lincoln’s Springfield, Illinois, although all of the wagons, carts, arti...
Welcome to REELtoREAL, where ReelChicago contributor, music producer and musician Lou Carlozo takes on the city’s vibrant recording and music scene. The three gals in Me ...
Filmmakers seeking screening venues might visit the classic Patio Theatre in the Northwest Side that has been meticulously restored to its lavish, gilded movie Golden Age splend...
Fast-growing Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy, with an enrollment of 600, has expanded to its second Loop campus since opening at the Burnham Building at 28 N. Dearborn fou...
He doesn’t run the biggest ad shop in the Chicago. Not by any means. Nor the most highly publicized. But he has been a presence. Dare we say a force of a somewhat differ...
Almost all Local 476 board members and trustees were returned to office and one new member who was welcomed to the union’s executive board in an election held earlier this wee...
Director John McNaughton and producer Steven A. Jones were in lower Manhattan, poised to return to the horror thriller genre after a 20-year absence, when Hurricane Sandy struck...
Checks are still coming in yet, but as of today the money raised by the impressive Two by Four-managed Off the Street Club luncheon Dec. 6 is a whopping $564,000. This is ...
ENERGY BBDO ON FRIDAY moves out of three floors at the 410 N. Michigan Wrigley Building, after an 80 year tenancy begun by its predecessor agency, to updated new offices south a...
Surprised? Yeah, we’ve been surprised by a lot of what Sears is up to, at least so far as its television marketing efforts are concerned. We’ve been surprised the most by ho...
Welcome to the inaugural column of REELtoREAL, where ReelChicago contributor, music producer and musician Lou Carlozo takes on the city's vibrant recording and music scene. In ...
Chicago-based Music Box Films leads independents distributors Film Independent’s Spirit Awards with seven nominations, behind only Fox Searchlight’s nine nominations in over...
Just as Lana and Andy Wachowski cut their cinematic teeth in the Windy City, 2012 sees another sibling pair shooting for the stars here: Rami and Remsy Atassi. Both recent...
We dread it. We shouldn’t, really. Yet we always do. It’s time to ask the question that always rises to the top of the bin right about now: What kind of ye...
SERIAL KILLER SPECIALIST John Borowski (H.H. Holmes, Albert Fish) has released streaming and DVD versions of his third documentary, Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Vengea...
Lead agency Two by Four seven Platinum Sponsors and a small army of dedicated adfolk from 10 agencies who worked since last summer planning the 102nd annual holiday Off the Stre...