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...

A new Internet campaign for Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana Chevy Dealers to better connect with car buyers was created by online video specialists Big Thinking By The Hour. ...

Not unlike many companies affected by the economy, Michael LaBellarte's Outsider, Inc. design and production company has drastically cut its overhead and moved to new and smal...

George Tillman, Jr., prominent Columbia College alum and one of film Chicago's big success stories, has signed with Story for exclusive national representation as a commercial ...

New York-based Station Films hit the jackpot when it came up the winner in the three-way bid among exclusively coastal companies for the Illinois Lottery's two-spot Second Chan...

The 2009 Advertising Woman of the Year is Draftfcb's managing director Karen Sauder. She is the latest on a lengthy list of agency leaders who were named to the top honor by t...

"We Believe," the authorized Chicago Cubs documentary, debuts locally June 2 at the cutting-edge the theatre in theWit, the new Loop hotel, before an invitational audience. ...

GAVIN MacLEOD, fondly remembered as "The Love Boat's" skipper and Mary Tyler Moore's fellow TV newswriter, will be the special guest June 8 at the screening of a faith-based...

SAG and AFTRA memberships overwhelmingly approved new three-year radio and television contracts, voting 93.84% in favor of them. Approximately 132,000 members of the two union...

Actor/director Jeff Daniels' latest feature will have its Midwest premiere at the 11th Annual Waterfront Film Festival June 11-14 in Saugatuck, Mich., where 70-plus films in f...

Beverly Ridge Pictures, the young company behind the $2 million Outfit drama "Chicago Overcoat," made its first foray into commercial production with a series of PSA's for the ...