MARKETING AGENCY UPSHOT, INC was ranked as No. 10 in the Chicago Tribune’s annual Top Places to Work compilation, as much for its traditional benefits and congenial working en...
If only it were so easy. For four years — four long years — Jeff Kiernan has been trying to do the seemingly impossible. Some might compare it to the ungodly tas...
Mimi Productions turned out a whopping total of 66 videos promoting six brands of Nestle Regional Spring Waters – the world’s leading mineral water company -- shot during th...
It’s considered SOP for a client to pull its business from an agency and subsequently set up shop with people who previously worked on that account. But when employees p...
AGENCY/PRODUCTION VETERAN JOHN NOBLE will be doing some serious traveling on behalf of L.A.-based The Traveling Picture Show Company (TPSC), which he joined last month as a part...
It’s the forgotten advertising form. It gets no respect. It’s probably going to go the way of the dinosaur before much more time has elapsed. We just have ...
With the hiring of veteran agency executive producer Tom Cronin as SVP/EP in charge of Foundation Content’s Chicago office, the versatile production company may be changing di...
Mark Hulsey knows his production crew is fortunate in televising the Big Ten’s men’s soccer tournament championship game being played Sunday on Northwestern’s lakefront fi...
Life goes on. Even at DraftFCB/Chicago. No one needs to be told that the ad shop — which not that long ago could lay claim to being the city’s largest — has be...
In a TV commercial, demonstrating brake rotors – aka brake discs, as important to stopping a vehicle as brake pads -- can be a snore or as exciting as the one multi-platform a...
Producer and distribution expert and former Chicagoan Jerome Courshon tackled the distribution maze when he made his award-winning, 1998 indie God, Sex & Apple Pie, wh...
Filmmakers Lana and Andy Wachowski have been on a media blitz lately, popping up in national magazines, local newspapers and radio. What makes this is a huge story in itse...
November’s calendar for the next two weeks is filled with informative, interesting and helpful events that also provide an excellent reason to go out and socialize. Chec...
ALTHOUGH BEAST EDITORIAL edits music videos and indie shorts, this is the first time the company and editor Angelo Valencia have cut a feature. The project is Winnetka native ac...
Applications are being sought for the first class of Diverse Voices in Docs, a new professional development and mentorship for emerging doc makers of color that will start in Ja...
BORIS WEXLER (Roundabout American) of Escape Films is developing the thriller feature Chat, about a severely light-averse father searching the world of online adult chat for his...
Leviathan executive producer Jason White departed Thursday, Nov. 1 for Melbourne, Australia to attend the second international Pause Fest Digital Festival, Nov. 8-11, that bring...
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...
