THE HOTTEST TICKETS IN TOWN were those issued by Universal Studios for the Chicago preview of "Public Enemies" that screened in two theatres in the River East 21 complex Thurs...

DIRECTOR HAROLD RAMIS receives the "Just for Laughs" Lifetime Achievement Award at the red carpet screening of Columbia Pictures' "Year One" at the Music Box, June 16. The...

Former Jerry Springer producer Richard Dominick is one of several Chicago-Hollywood producers teaming with Pixel Brothers (PBI) as the studio moves into the realm of entertainme...

A "PUBLIC ENEMIES" PRESS JUNKET by Universal Studios is scheduled for June 18 in Chicago, with the conference to be held at Union Station, we hear. A full complement of stars...

Burrell Communications bested three other minority agencies to win an initial two-year, $6.4 million Illinois Lottery contract to provide advertising and PR targeted to African ...

Stephen Cone returned to his apartment/production office the day after shooting wrapped on his sophomore feature, "In Memoriam: A Comedy," to find his movie had been stolen. ...

Potential entrants of Optimus' second annual "One Shot" contest, that will produce the winning 30-second script as a high-quality commercial, will meet June 10 at Optimus for a ...

The sold-out June 11 Portfolio Night 7 in Chicago ? best described as "speed dating" for advertising students and agency creative directors ? will be one of 22 such events takin...

Digital feature "Four," the 40-minute, ambitious MFA thesis film of writer/director Patrick Wimp, the first-ever MFA graduate of DePaul University's Digital Cinema program, will...

Zacuto will exhibit 30 recently released products at Cine Gear Expo 2009 in L.A. this weekend. The innovative light weight DSLR Gunstock Shooters are included in the newest ite...

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? Michael Mann's 1930s crime movie "Public Enemies," which spent $25 million filming in Chicago and the state last year, will have various premi...

"CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE," starring 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson), a medium-budget indie police corruption crime thriller, is shooting in Grand Rapids for three weeks, with an L.A...

Outsider Inc., which let its staff go and moved out of its big Streeterville loft space, moved last week into what executive producer Michael Rafayko said was going to be "new a...

MATT DWORZANCZYK recently completed production on his 17-minute film "Marlin," a dark fantasy from Bogar Alonso's script. The story is about a little girl kidnapped by a stran...

THE COLONIE'S BOB ACKERMAN edited a Joe Pytka-directed 11 spot mixed media package of Hallmark spots, with a sound track backed by the Grammy winner John Mayer's song, "Say," ...

Columbia College new Internet and Mobile Media concentration scored an online success with the May 7 launch of its web series "Sexperts." It garnered 70,000 viewers in three day...

Kevin Cooper, producer of the 2003 Robert Duvall/Michael Caine/Haley Joel Osment family picture, "Second Hand Lions," makes his feature directing debut with the canines-run-amok...

Tom Jordan's new book, "Re-Render the Gender," exposes the "vicious circle" at the heart of the advertising industry: women make or influence over 80% of all purchases, but men...

REAL HOUSEWIVES OF CHICAGO are being sought for a Towers Productions reality series. According to Towers' casting director Becky Cattie, the hope is to find women who coul...

REAL HOUSEWIVES OF CHICAGO are being sought for a Towers Productions reality series. According to Towers' casting director Becky Cattie, the hope is to find women who cou...