AS OF NOW, Michigan’s film incentives funding is close to being maxed out. A comparatively meager $2.25 million remains out of the current $25 million film fund, and tha...
It’s over for DraftFCB. As many had suspected from the moment we announced last Christmas Eve that S.C. Johnson was launching an agency review, the Racine, Wis.-based ho...
That loud thud heard at noon on Tuesday was the sound of several hundred jaws dropping in disbelief — and dismay — as Chicago’s new mayor, Rahm Emanuel, addressed the city...
Cursing your luck because you didn’t order your Lollapalooza tickets soon enough and now it’s a sell out? No worries. Haul out the beer and watch the concerts on...
The champagne corks aren’t popping. And the confetti is nowhere to be seen. Mark this down as one anniversary that news ratings-challenged WFLD-Channel 32 isn’t ...
FANS OF GREAT BANDS and ground-breaking Chicago composers and musicians of the ‘90s are invited to The Hideout Wednesday, July 27, to see a preview of a feature doc by Paris-b...
FILMING A TRIO OF COWBOYS as they traveled the exciting, high stakes rodeo circuit took documentarian H. D. Motyl and his crew through six western states, shooting steadily from...
New York’s billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently gave a $6 million grant to Mayor Rahm Emanuel to use for various city programs. One of them is finding ways to create g...
THE 48 HOUR PROJECT is gearing up for the July 29-31 Chicago challenge to see who can make the best short film, from script to screen, in 48 hours. Any team, regardle...
Already a part of the Detroit post scene with its partnership in RingSide Creative, newly established Cutters Detroit is creating its own identity in the Motor City’s mu...
Some 200 invited guests for Bridges Media 10th anniversary celebration Friday night will walk the red carpet to the River North studio that’s going to be decked out like a kli...
It’s rare that a brand new, built-from-scratch TV show springs to life in perfect shape. It’s even rarer when the show happens to be a live, local telecast such as top...
This we know for sure. Todd Tilford isn’t in Kansas anymore.On Monday afternoon, DraftFCB/Chicago tapped Tilford, 47, as its new chief creative officer, starting in earl...
After Jim Olen shuttered Rhythm Café last October, after 14 years as a commercial music house, he became a consultant with post and production companies “who were looki...
Acclaimed Chicago actress Rondi Reed will head for L.A. in August to start Season Two as one of the leads in Mike and Molly, CBS’ Monday night breakout success sitcom.Whi...
Regardless of what you want to call it – a perfect storm, a surfeit of riches – the next few weeks will be the “crazy busiest,” as Local 476’s Mark Hogan puts it, but ...
INVITING MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL to speak at a Chicago Ad Federation luncheon incubated last January, when the CAF’s Speakers Series committee convened to discuss potential s...
The 2011 Cannes Lions International Festival of — ah — Creativity ended a couple of weeks ago. But the world’s most prestigious and most closely-watched annual ad co...
FILMMAKER ADRIANNA MCKINLEY’S character-driven sci-fi short drama, Breathers, based on the Breathers comic book by Justin Madson, is in postproduction being readied for two lo...
Mayor Rahm Emanuel will meet the advertising community for the first time on July 26, when he tells how the ad industry will benefit from the city’s new long-term business ini...