A CONTINGENT OF SOME 50 ADFOLKS from Chicago and another 15 from Detroit and Minneapolis will descend on the South of France for the 59th Cannes Lions Festival of Creativi...
BE GOOD, TODD LOOBY’S INDIE FEATURE, produced by his Obrigado Productions in 2011, will enjoy a full week’s screening at the Gene Siskel Film Center, starting with its world...
Mayonnaise is much more than a flavor-enhancing bread spread when it’s Hellmann’s, as a chef demonstrates in three videos produced by integrated studio Utopic for Hellmann...
THE NON-EQUITY JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARDS, presented at Park West on Monday, June 4, showed the many strengths of Chicago’s smaller theaters – or what co-emcee Vanessa Greenway...
If Cameron Mackintosh can pull it off, he certainly will have achieved the greatest marketing coup of this or any year in the movie business — a business that has, in America ...
The BIG art event in Chicago this summer is a major retrospective of the work of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. The exhibition has just opened at the Art Institute of Chicag...
Fletcher Camera & Lenses is going where the action is. The 25-year old rentals company in the process of opening a branch office in New Orleans – the number three pr...
Northbrook-based private equity firm Sterling Partners acquired a majority interest in five-year old Tribeca Flashpoint Academy (TFA). The school, which has an enrollment of abo...
He may not be Chicago’s glitziest advertising executive. And certainly not its most egomaniacal. But like the little engine that could, president and executiv...
FEATURE/TV DIRECTOR ROGER KUMBLE, in town to direct an episode of the MTV series “Underemployed,” is the featured speaker June 5 at Midwest Independent Film Festival...
Next September, The School of the Art Institute (SAIC) will be one of nine major institutions participating in the Sony Digital Media Academy (SDMA) that will give undergraduate...
NEW LEAF CLOSES THE BOOK. After 11 years, New Leaf Theatre has decided to cease operations. The company’s current production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, running through June ...
Gov. Rick Snyder has upped Michigan’s film grant money to $50 million, from the present $25 million that all but killed what had been one of the biggest US film markets, for t...
As I sit here working with only one engineer on a deck outfitted with the latest of digital tools, I about how far we have come in mixing films – and how many things remain th...
Screenwriters in the Flyover Zone who have traveled to Hollywood to pitch their story ideas to The Right People can save their travel expenses and time by attending the first ev...
THE RECENT NATO SUMMIT in Chicago is the setting for filmmaker award-winning filmmaker Ben Kolak’s indie feature MAYDAYS that he says is in the political tradition of filmmake...
Veteran Chicago creative executive Joe Burke, best known for his award-winning "Is It In You?" campaign for Gatorade, is set to join Marc USA/Chicago as executive creative direc...
Two weeks after Emily Barr abruptly resigned as general manager of ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, the station’s late news is set to retain its longtime No. 1 position among loc...
Whimsical. What a lovely word. But trust us — when applied to television advertising — “whimsical” is among the toughest tricks to pull off with much success...
VFX EXPERT BLAKE NICKLE who worked for L.A.’s Rhythm & Hues doing CGI and visual effects for hit features, has joined Radar as senior post producer. Nickle returned ...
