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Indie film “Dog Jack” a Black History Month release

By Julian Grant Jan 30, 2012

Filmmaker Edward T. McDougal’s inspiring historical feature, “Dog Jack,” opens theatrically nationwide in celebration of February’s Black History Month -- a year after t...

Canon debuts C300, its first cinema camera, to Chicago

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 27, 2012

Canon reps Ed Meyers and Tim Smith unveiled the EOS C300, touted as the company’s first bona fide cinema camera, in its Chicago debut Jan. 26 at the Gene Siskel Film Center. M...

Curtain Calls

Artistic director leaves Remy Bumppo after short term

By Kerry Reid Jan 27, 2012

Only six months after accepting the artistic director’s job at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Timothy Douglas has resigned the post. Longtime Remy Bumppo artistic associate Nick...

Dream package prize awaits CSN script contest winner

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 26, 2012

The Chicago Screenwriters Networks’ screenwriting contest is officially underway for the fourth consecutive year and the enthusiastic new CSN board is determined to make this ...

Lewis Lazare

Spielberg-produced NBC show a “Smash”-ing disaster

By Lewis Lazare Jan 26, 2012

Let’s just say it flat out. “Smash” is a train wreck of a show like few others we’ve ever endured on TV. And get ready. It’s headed right at us in Chicago ...

Stockwell joins Foundation as director/editor

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 26, 2012

FOUNDATION has rounded out its editorial staff with the Jan. 16 arrival of director/editor Robert Stockwell, who joined after four years at Draftfcb, where he had been an active...

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Chicago Cubs strike out by hiring a New York agency

By Lewis Lazare Jan 24, 2012

In the eyes of a lot of local ad executives, the Chicago Cubs have just struck out. Big time. The team lost a big chunk of potential fans from Chicago’s advertising indu...

Lewis Lazare

Win some, lose some: DPC up for Walgreens review

By Lewis Lazare Jan 24, 2012

In a stunner that is sure to have major ramifications for Downtown Partners/Chicago, sources say Walgreens is launching an ad agency review. That could mean big problems f...

Cutters’ expansion moves beyond L.A. to Asian markets

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 23, 2012

Cutters’ current expansion knows no bounds. Chicago’s biggest post company has just implemented its L.A. operation with two high-profile editors and a Chicago-transfer...

Indie Focus

Nearing’s period drama shooting now through June

by Ed M. Koziarkski Jan 23, 2012

THE KIDNAPPING OF A TYCOON set during the tumultuous 1918 Chicago race riots is the subject of Hogtown, being produced by Daniel Nearing’s 923 Films and shooting now until Jun...

Fest premiere of Joffrey doc simulcasts to 40 theaters

by Ed M. Koziarski Jan 23, 2012

In a first-ever event of its kind, writer/director Bob Hercules’ documentary Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance will be simulcast to more than 40 theaters on the second nigh...

Curtain Calls

New theatre homes for established Rivendell, Griffin

By Kerry Reid Jan 20, 2012

NEW EDGEWATER HOME FOR RIVENDELL. The ensemble theater, which is now in its 18th year of production (16th year of being an official nonprofit), celebrates its first permanent ho...

Bigger space and services in new Space Stage Studios

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 20, 2012

After six weeks of top-to-bottom renovation, Product Productions’ new full-service Space Stage Studios is up and running in what had been Steve Broderick’s old West Grand St...

Chicagoans convene Sunday at Sundance posh party

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 20, 2012

SOME 200 GUESTS, including many Chicagoans, are expected to attend Brenda Sexton’s annual Sundance party Sunday night that she is hosting at the magnificent private home of Cr...

Pension funds would pay if Raleigh Studios defaults

By Mike Morgan Jan 20, 2012

Michigan's largest film production studio will likely default on a bond payment due in two weeks, sticking the state's pension funds with the $630,000 obligation, according a Ja...

Lewis Lazare

Lucky Lottery winner: DPC/Critical Mass

By Lewis Lazare Jan 18, 2012

And then there was one — the winner. As first predicted days ago, Downtown Partners/Chicago, in conjunction with digital partner Critical Mass/Chicago, has prevaile...

Rosie O’Donnell fields Q&A at Trump doc screening

By Mike Morgan Jan 18, 2012

New Chicago resident Rosie O’Donnell makes her first film screening appearance Jan. 20 at the Chicago premiere of “You’ve Been Trumped”, a doc about her long-time nemesi...

Indie Focus

Corn Bred sets debut with $35,000 horror comedy

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 17, 2012

Eric Anderson and Amelia Dellos launched their production company Corn Bred Films last March “with the goal of establishing a film studio in the Midwest dedicated to finding a...

MTV’s “Underemployed” series joins “Boss” here this spring

By Ruth L Ratny Jan 17, 2012

KELSEY GRAMMER WAS VISIBLY SURPRISED at winning a Golden Globe for “best lead actor in a TV series” for “Boss” was a surprise to him – after all, he was up against sti...

Lewis Lazare

Winning Lottery spot comes from an unexpected agency

By Lewis Lazare Jan 17, 2012

With just days to go before the Illinois Lottery and its private manager Northstar Lottery Group are expected to name a new ad agency of record for the Lottery, a startling...

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