We noticed it from a distance. Energy BBDO/Chicago CEO Tonise Paul had a little extra spring in her step as she approached her table Wednesday at the very clubby Shaw’s ...
“It’s an end of an era,” said Stewart Talent agent Sam Samuelson of the Sept. 15 closing of the Chicago office of the Geddes Agency, run by Elizabeth Geddes after 44 unbro...
This is what worries us. McGarryBowen, with offices in New York and Chicago, in recent months has been pegged a super hot ad agency by marketing media reporters (ourselves inclu...
The important film that documentarian Michael Moore says he wants “everyone in the country to watch, Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football, will screen exclusively for local filmm...
Director Julian Grant and producer Boris Wexler couldn’t attend the New York City International Film Festival closing ceremonies last week, but fortunately two production comp...
The August 2011 Nielsen television ratings book ended Wednesday, and the results suggest the principal contenders in the hotly-contested late news ratings wars haven’t budged ...
Don’t tell local filmmaker Matt Wechsler he’s not competitive. Having earned the runner-up slot in the 2009 Chicago 24 Hour Film Race, he was eager for a shot at redem...
A chance meeting at a restaurant between two budding screenwriters 11 years ago led to more than love and an exchange of “I do's" at the altar. It also resulted in the creatio...
The bears have it. Whatever it is. The big furry animals have certainly fascinated more than a few advertising creatives over the past decade.Two high-profile TV spots of ...
RESOLUTION DIGITAL STUDIOS’ executive producer Mitch Apley joined agency Abelson-Taylor, a longtime client of his, in a new position as Manager of Interactive Production ...
Winner of the grand prize of the recent Chicago Screenwriters Network’s third annual script contest was former U.S. Marine, Adedapo Akisanya, for his drama, Beneath the Rock.H...
“People golf for recreation, I don’t golf. People jog, I don’t jog,” says Sonixphere’s CEO/creative director Greg Allan. “What I do for fun is ride a mot...
Last we heard from Escape Pod/Chicago creative honcho Vinny Warren, he was madly blogging away about the latest setback to befall his creative alma mater DDB/Chicago, which is ...
SEVEN CHICAGO-MADE SHORTS, grouped under the title of The Chicago Connection, screen Thursday, Aug. 25 at the Black Harvest International Film Festival. One of those shorts...
Normally ReelChicago is all business, but today we’re going to talk beer. Before you think we’ve thrown back a few too many, let us explain. Right now we’re sitting a...
Three of Chicago’s top talents, who have voiced major roles in Halo “Combat Evolved” games, will be part of the exciting 3-day HaloFest this weekend, Aug. 26-28, in Seattl...
It looks as if this busy summer of 2011 will be remembered as a time when some of the Chicago advertising industry’s most iconic client/agency relationships finally splintered...
George Elder’s Luminair is in post on the eighth season of “Mexico: One Plate at a Time,” PBS’ top-rated cooking show hosted by restaurateur/chef Rick Bayless. It ...
Once upon a time there was an incredibly vital commercial production community in Chicago, with a slew of interesting, vital and profitable outfits pushing a wide range of direc...
These are not the best of times at DraftFCB/Chicago. The loss of the $1 billion S.C. Johnson account after nearly 60 years has prompted the layoff of 10 percent of D...