THE VOICE OF THE LEMON in McDonald’s new summer Frozen Strawberry Lemonade inspired spot from Tribal DDB might sound familiar to The Sopranos fans. It belongs to Steve S...
After four years in the making, A Good Man, the feature-length documentary about choreographer Bill T. Jones’ creation of a dance-theatre piece about the life of Abraham Linco...
All too often creative minds tend to neglect the practical business side until it’s too late. Enter attorney Jerry Glover, who will keep us legal and proper with his good advi...
UTOPIC DID CHICAGO PROUD by being one of the 21 winners among a wide range of editorial houses at Tuesday night’s AICE 10th Annual Awards in New York, honoring creative excell...
ALTHOUGH ONLY $25 MILLION has now been allocated for the film program for 2012, which must be passed by both the state Senate and House, Chicago-based Fletcher Camera &...
MORE THAN 60 EXHIBITORS will display their latest and greatest at Roscor’s 3rd annual Communications Technology Expo May 19-20 in the big first floor stage at Resolution Digit...
Composer/musician and mixer Elliott Hunt and his L.A. partner, Daniel Alcheh, scored an indie feature that premiered a few weeks ago as the headliner film at the Newport Beach F...
CHICAGO WILL BUSTLE this summer when production on both a TV series and a TV pilot start shooting around town after July 4th. The TV show is The Playboy Club, which NBC an...
SERIES CANCELED. Chicago wasn’t the only location outside of L.A. to lose a big network TV series last week. On Friday the 13th, ABC canceled Detroit 1-8-7. Like Fox’s...
Towers Productions is ramping up to become Chicago’s leading 3D company as it begins production on a groundbreaking series, The Civil War 3D,exclusively for the 3net ...
Four chicago editors were among the 52 finalists in 15 categories (not including the 8 regional “Bests”) vying for top honors in AICE’s Tenth Anniversary competition, hono...
It was all about jobs. And if the media and people assembled for the Cinespace ribbon-cutting and press conference Tuesday didn’t get it the first time, Gov. Pat Quinn m...
FOX TV Monday night did what was not unexpected by canceling freshman entry, The Chicago Code, due to ratings that started out so-so and didn’t improve. While everyone in...
Tim Caldwell, who spent the last 28 years with Panavision in L.A. and New York, joined Fletcher Camera and Lenses as technical services manager.He leads a staff of six tech...
Now Chicago shooters can be on the same page as stratospheric directors James Cameron, Peter Jackson and Bryan Singer, who are shooting their latest big-budgets 3D features with...
Lost amid the April 23 chaos at Pete Wentz’s Angels and Kings club at the Hard Rock Hotel, was the celebration going on for the release Mortal Kombat, a retelling of the...
The Michigan house on April 28 passed Gov. Rick Snyder’s proposed budget bill -- the one that axes all business incentives, including those for film production in the state.&n...
AT LONG LAST – Cinespace Studios will officially open during a ground-breaking ceremony on a date to be set during the week of May 9 -- nearly 18 months after its planned pur...
JUNKO KAJINO and I are headed to northern Japan this spring to begin production on our new documentary, Uncanny Terrain, through Homesick Blues Productions.We will follow organi...
Production companies have added post to their services, post companies have gone into production, so why not an audio company adding video production?That’s what 23-year old A...