We now know which five ad agencies (all in Chicago) have a shot at nabbing the Illinois Lottery account, with the winner expected to be announced in late January. Those five sho...
Director Sean Patrick Fahey, of hybrid production studio Odd Machine, will direct and co-produce "Nine Twelve,” an indie feature which explores the lives of three people who m...
Today's big shake-up in the Sprint ad agency roster will prompt plenty of fallout over the next several months. But sources today confirmed one of the shops to be hit hard...
Steppenwolf Film’s “The Last Rites of Joe May,” starring Dennis Farina and written and directed by Joe Maggio, topped the Best of the Midwest’s nine category awards pres...
Men of a certain age might remember Philips Norelco’s 1990s commercial of Santa Claus’ epic ride over snow-covered hills to deliver a Norelco razor. Santa will ride ag...
So far so… well, so not according to plan. The race to find a new ad agency for the Illinois Lottery has just begun, and already so much has happened that wasn’t nece...
Michigan moved closer to new film incentives Dec. 1 with the House Commerce Committee revising SB 569 and sending it out of committee with a passing vote of 16-1. The Film Produ...
Daufenbach Camera received early RED’s Scarlet-X 4K camera serial numbers 22 and 33 of the revolutionary new cameras that were shipped to buyers a few weeks ago, making ...
VETERAN ACTOR DENNIS FARINA and director Joe Maggio of indie feature “The Last Rites of Joe May,” will be special guests at the Midwest Independent Film Festival’s Best of...
The ownership of Teletech Video has passed from the founding family to three energetic employees, who are expanding HD production-to-distribution capabilities and reopening in n...
It wasn’t long ago that NBC Universal stages in the NBC Tower were bustling with weekday production of the Jerry Springer and Steve Wilkos’ syndicated TV shows. That w...
It still isn’t over. Anyone who followed the quick, but torturous process to pick a private manager to run the Illinois Lottery knows it was not pretty. There were lots ...
CHICAGO AREA good works companies won the biggest number of grants – a total of $500,000 -- in the just-concluded 2011 Chase Community Giving program that asked the public to ...
Chicago’s ranking as a film city is a sometimes thing. There have been times when Moviemaker Magazine, for example, has put Chicago on top of a list of the 25 best cities to...
It must have something to do with the holiday spirit, because one sure doesn’t see ad agencies in Chicago working so happily together all that often. But that is exactly...
The Chicago Actors in Film Meetup (CAFM) set the final same-digit day of the year, 12/12, for its annual Third Networking Night and Fundraiser at Chief O’Neill’s Restau...
Veteran voiceover and sound expert Nick Sanabria of Radio City Recording & Audio has employed his rich “1950s Don Pardo announcer voice” in a new audio app that he and n...
The first thing film extra/actor and comedian Tommy Connolly talks about is the Extra Hands of Hope holiday drive he helped organize among actors and extra to collect “gently ...
So the race is on to find the new ad agency of record for the Illinois Lottery. And from what we know now, it promises to be one of the most interesting races ever r...
